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If you have been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, then you know of the Consumer Electronics Show. Or as the rest of the lazy world likes to announce it: CES.
I believe that Paul Carr describes this phenomena the best, “four days wandering around an aircraft hanger filled with vastly oversized television sets, or sitting through endless product launches that are being simulcast online anyway.”
I personally took the last piece of advice and periodically tuned into some live webcasts of the show from the comfort of my own desk. And while I did long to “suffer” along with the rest of the geeks at CES (just because of the geek that I am) I found that I really wasn’t missing much.
Now if I were to predict this year in technology based solely on CES it would be pretty easy; we are all going to have an extreme headaches trying to read our e-books and tablets from watching 3-d TV all day.
In all seriousness though there were few things that really struck my eye and made me say, “I NEED that.” What stuck out at me more than anything were the trends, that are so completely obvious that I can pick them up.
First up is 3-d TV. Although we might all think that Avatar is stunning on the screen, there is no way anyone will want to have this in their house….
Read the rest here: Layered Byte » What CES Tells Us About the Coming Year.
