Trade shows belong to the days of Mad Men. This is a dying vestige of days gone by, massive marketing budgets, thousands of dipshits on a free Las Vegas holiday. Been there, done that. Barf-O-Rama. Just cut this shit out, and take a few bucks off the price of the gizmos.

Did you mean an oven that can work two different temperatures at the same time? That would be awesome. But stoves already do that!

How about a new gaming platform that is actually new, instead of pre-crippled?

@2 - Nonsense. My stove works only at room temperature. Sometimes, I can get a pot of water boiling if I light a small fire on the stovetop, but all the cordwood I have to stack on there leaves little room under the hood for a pot.

An oven that can cook at two different temperatures at the same time? Wow, talk about forward to the past. Double ovens were common in the 1950's and 60's.

Fridge with a touch screen and twitter? Really? Having it on your phone isn't enough?

A lot of solutions looking for problems.

@3 depending on what you see as crippled - Steambox will come out this year (its Bigscreen mode has been tested on the Steam for Linux betatesters and it seems it will be running Linux too).
The theres Ouya, now that is a bit of a wildcard since everyone is kinda thinking on whether it will even sail - and if it does how good will it be (seems like an old Nintendo Cube).
Oh and Gamestick another open source thing.

Beyond that I only got allot of Linux-stuff.

So what are our early adopters going to be buying this year?

None of these things.

This is the sort of nonsense that used to get displayed in the tertiary exhibit halls at CES and Comdex: unwanted products produced by desperate companies, solving no possible problem ever had by a customer. Now it's all that the show has left: even Samsung (hands-down the biggest player still bothering to attend) doesn't bother to introduce its flagship products there any more. Instead it's all unsellable "concept car" products and demos.

It's time to pack it in.

I imagine that the TV would make watching shows like The Walking Dead unbearable:

"What?! They just said they had to conserve ammo, and yet they're shooting all these penned-in zombies?! Why the hell would you do that when you can easily just stab them through the fence?!"

"Well, Knat, my search confirms that distance is the most important factor in dealing with with a zomb--"

"SHUT UP, TV! I WASN'T ASKING YOU!"

fuck! imagine that on a Bushmaster inside a movie theater...

I used to have to go to these shows. I remember seeing a lot of things that were almost ready for prime time... an audio player that could play 4GB of music! Too big to carry around. An internet centered tablet! But it had to be plugged in. Bluetooth! Before there was anything that you could connect to it.
All of these ideas were eventually refined and tweaked to become the things we can't live without today, but at the time they were all clearly doomed.
The connected fridge will be common in a decade when we'll all wonder how we ever lived without being able to check our fridge's contents while at the supermarket. 3D TV at 4k resolution will be standard once they perfect 3D without glasses. The Siri type of interface will frustratingly be everywhere soon. Hand gestures for computers are right around the corner too.
Ten years ago hardly anyone had an HDTV, now even the anarchists and hippies have 'em. It's all coming whether you like it or not.

When do we get those guitars that are, like, double-guitars?

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The TV that two people can watch at the same time is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. If glasses are required, why not put the screen in the damn glasses?

And, yes, while technologies we all have were introduced and possibly even ridiculed years ago at CES, they are releasing something like 10,000 products. Of those there are a lot of stinkers that are never going to sell.

Your missing out on the 27" Table PC from Lenovo. Pricey at $1700+ but still cool to see.

@6 for the non-obvious win. Boring year so far, best thing I've heard of.

Besides, we already have tech to do brain-controlled TVs so I don't care if it's the size of a Beluga Whale with 3D Surround Sound. Still old tech done bigger.