Video: Highlights, Lowlights From CES 2010

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was a little muted (largely thanks to Google, who announced its Nexus One aka iPhone clone right before the convention) but there were diamonds in the rough. In this edition of the Wired video podcast, senior editor Dylan Tweney sums up the highlights ? as well as the lowlights ? of CES 2010.

3-D TVs dominated the show floor, with fancy sets showcased by almost every major video manufacturer including Sony, LG, Toshiba and Panasonic. Our favorite was the Cell TV from Toshiba ? a set packed with multiple eight-core processors to convert standard 2-D video into 3-D. Wowzers.

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E-book readers of many flavors also flooded the show floor. Plastic Logic’s Que was a noteworthy item with its especially large 8.5-inch screen ? like a sheet of Letter-sized paper.

We oo-ed and ahh-ed at a particular Samsung notebook. What’s so great about it? Its 14-inch screen is a 40-percent transparent OLED display, so you can see right through it ? kind of like that awesome tablet in Avatar.

Another notebook that caught our eye was Lenovo’s Skylight “smartbook” ? a netbook with a smartphone processor promising 8-hour battery life ? mostly because it was the freshest looking mini note on the block.

As for lowlights, we dissed on long-winded keynotes put on by Microsoft and Sony, companies who could both use some lessons in showmanship. We also rolled our eyes at custom celebrity gadgets from Lady Gaga, P Diddy and even Ed Hardy.

This episode of the Wired video podcast was produced by Annaliza Savage with editing by Michael Lennon, audiowork by Fernando Cardoso, camerawork by John Ross and still photos by Jonathan Snyder.

For full coverage of the convention, visit Wired.com’s CES 2010 page.

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