CES 2012

At CES 2012 in Las Vegas techies flocked from around the world to view and share cool new gadgets that are scheduled to come out later in the year.  The Consumer Electronics Show has been going on since all the way back in 1967 in New York City and it has been the premier spot to showcase new electronics to the public.  Some of the gadgets at CES 2012 were astonishing, while others just left you wondering why.  Lets take a look at the highlights of CES 2012.

CES 2012 | Video Highlight

So we stumbled upon a great video hosted by Mashable’s editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff about some of the most interesting new gadgets at CES 2012 as well as reoccuring trends and a robotic tweeting bunny rabbit (no we’re not kidding).  Check out the video.

I’ll have to admit that the studio quality microphone for the Ipad was one of my favorite new gadgets at CES 2012, it will definitely give more people out there the opportunity to create their own podcasts with ease.  The animated hand on the contrary seems a little eccentric and ridiculous, oh well I guess people have to waste their money on something, may as well be an vibrating strobe-lit hand that makes some questionable gestures.

CES 2012 | Best and Worse

The folks at TechCrunch compiled a list of winners and losers for CES 2012 and I wanted to share with you their number one winner and number one winner of CES 2012, prepare to be very surprised at what you find.

CES 2012 Winner:

Last year, the TVs at CES were a wearying collection of the same-y junk, and everyone was pushing the same thing: 3D. I don’t personally have a problem with 3D, and in fact almost every TV we saw this year was also 3D-capable. But this time around, it wasn’t their primary feature. Perhaps as a result of the various display manufacturers’ lineups looking more or less the same for a while (not to mention the indifferent response of the market to home 3D), TV makers decided to actually add different features this year. Not all were useful, mind you, but Samsung, Sony, Sharp, and so on decided to take their own paths – whether in style of interaction, breadth of content, or sheer size (that would be Sharp). It’s good to see a TV here and actually be curious about it again.

CES 2012 Loser:

People have been saying that the shadow of Apple would fall darkly on CES, that everyone would be spooked about the imminent presence of the new iPad and the rumored iTV, that it would be a show of Apple clones. The truth is that no one really seemed to be thinking much about Apple one way or the other. We saw phones taking design in interesting directions, tablets with diverse uses, business models that move beyond iTunes, and smart TVs that the companies seemed pretty excited about, not defeatist or pathetic. The only place Apple showed up was in the accessories area, and the new items we saw, more often than not, were careful to accommodate Android and other devices as well. CES just isn’t Apple’s show, which isn’t much of a surprise to some, but others want to believe that Apple has a presence even where it isn’t. CES showed this year that, news coverage patterns notwithstanding, the tech world doesn’t revolve around Apple; it revolves around a weird and splendid panoply of overly specific gadgets, raw components, and foreign niche markets.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/15/the-winners-and-losers-of-ces-2012/

CES 2012 | Conclusion

I know we were really surprised that Apple was the year’s loser at CES 2012 seeing how much of a grip that they have on the overall computer, phone, and tablet market, but its nice to see others shine, including tweeting rabbits.

Image attribution: http://brajeshwar.com/2011/ces-2012-lets-anticipate-open-source/