CES 2013: tech’s biggest trade show in pictures (photo gallery)
Dean Takahashi, Devindra Hardawar and Sean Ludwig
Our photo gallery covers CES from the beginning to the end in Vegas.
Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show is bursting full of color. It is always a visual delight, an attack on your senses. It takes an image gallery to convey what it’s like to those who didn’t make it to the show. Here are the memorable images from CES 2013. Pictured above is Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association. He started out the show, saying it had more than 3,300 exhibitors across 1.9 million square feet of space. We’ll find out soon exactly how many attended, but the show was busier than ever. We wouldn’t be surprised if it beat last year’s record of 156,000 attendees.
Pebble’s E-Paper smartwatch
Pebble’s E-Paper smartwatch was one of our picks for the best of the show.
The Microsoft CEO left the opening keynote spot a year ago, but he reeturned for a cameo to talk about Windows Phone 8.
Mauz turns your iPhone into a touchscreen 3D mouse.
It’s a sign of the times and the growing strength of China in electronics.
A variety of tablets and Ultrabooks adorned Intel’s tech tree at CES.
OLPC showed off its touchscreen-based tablet-laptop hybrid is the latest aimed at kids. It sits aside a Marvell Smile device, which creates a classroom network.
A dancer’s movements are translated into a digital image as Movea shows off its motion-tracking ability.
The Nvidia CEO decided to launch a mobile gaming system that can play Android and Steam games on the TV.
Sharp plans to debut its 4K Ultra HD TV this spring in North America.
The watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher showed up at CES Unveiled.
The Showstoppers Party at the Wynn had plenty of digital oddities like this guitar.
Sony introduced a 55-inch OLED TV. It worked fine at Sony’s booth, but not at its press conference, sadly.
Sharp’s 85-inch 8K TV has 16 times as much data per screen compared to HD TV.
You won’t throw up with this game-focused virtual reality headset. It is truly immersive.
The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 are smarter, with better sensors and a programmable “intelligent brick.”
When Sony engineers brought out the new 55-inch OLED TV, it crash and displayed a blue screen. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai said, “Excellent,” in his best sarcastic voice.
For its CES party, Toshiba rented the swanky Mix bar atop THEhotel at Mandalay Bay. It introduced an 84-inch 4K TV.
CES drew thousands of press who attended the CES Unveiled party on Sunday.
Attacknid remote-controlled robots can be assembled into a swarm and controlled via smartphone.
TCL showed off its UltraSurface Link with a demo of Angry Birds. With the link, you can control your TV with an iPhone and play Android apps on the big screen.
This model is a 4K Ultra HD LED TV, weighing in at 110 inches.
Judy Chen showed how your phone can be wired into your car display, which can mirror the image on the phone.
Since games aren’t real enough, G-Mate created the MAG II gun-shaped controller for PC gamers.
Hapilabs says its Hapi Fork can help you lose weight. It has an accelerometer that detects how fast you eat and buzzes to slow you down.
3D glasses-based gaming lived on at the Nvidia booth, where the company demoed its 3DVision glasses. But few others showed off 3D at the show.
These zany characters were promoting some kind of boom box that was so big it had to sit on wheels.
Tegra 4 can help you get attractive women? No, the point of this scene was to show off the high-dynamic range of Tegra 4-based tablet cameras.
Born Mobile is Qualcomm’s name for the mobile generation that is buying billions of phones and tablets.
Sean Ludwig of VentureBeat shows how big the 6.1-inch Huawei smartphone is.
Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli showed off a TV with a 4K HEVC home gateway, which can handle huge streams of 4K data.
Another sign of the times: China’s Changhong had a pretty big booth to show off its consumer electronics gear.
The Razer Edge is a gamer’s Windows 8 tablet with handles for game controls.
[Image credits: Dean Takahashi, Devindra Hardawar and Sean Ludwig]
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