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.
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Sony Xperia Z hands-on at CES 2013
Sony's Bravia2 video engine powers this 5-inch smartphone.
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CES is for car fiends too
The North Hall at the LVCC was for car buffs, and the electronics content in vehicles soaring.
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Maroon 5′s Adam Levine at Qualcomm’s CES 2013 Keynote
It didn't have much to do with Qualcomm, but this was definitely the right way to close the keynote.
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CEO Paul Jacobs at Qualcomm’s CES 2013 keynote
Jacobs was enthusiastic, but he went on long.
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Alice Eve joins Paul Jacobs at Qualcomm’s CES 2013 keynote
The star of Star Trek Into Darkness was nervous on stage, judging from the sweat on her upper lip. 4K and 8K resolution won't be kind to celebrities who don't look good in extreme close-ups.
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Big Bird at Qualcomm’s CES 2013 keynote
We're not sure why Sesame Street's Big Bird was there.
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Guillermo del Toro joins Paul Jacobs at Qualcomm’s CES 2013 keynote
Del Toro showed clip from his upcoming monster vs mechs film Pacific Rim.
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Pebble Smartwatch CES Press Conference
Pebble's E-Paper smartwatch
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Pebble Smartwatch CES Press Conference
Pebble's E-Paper smartwatch was one of our picks for the best of the show.
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Steve Ballmer at Qualcom CEO Paul Jacobs’ CES keynote
The Microsoft CEO left the opening keynote spot a year ago, but he reeturned for a cameo to talk about Windows Phone 8.
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VentureBeat’s Sean Ludwig prepares for CES Unveiled 2013
Ludwig joined thousands of press at the Mandalay Bay ballroom where CES Unveiled opened the show.
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Mauz – CES 2013 Eureka Park
Mauz turns your iPhone into a touchscreen 3D mouse.
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Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs in shadows CES 2013 keynote
One of the few quieter moments during the Paul Jacobs keynote.
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Lexus showed off a self-driving car. It uses lasers, sensors and GPS to find its way.
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Zhonghao Digital’s antique phonograph player
This old-style phonograph plays vinyl records, CDs, AM/FM radio and music on a USB flash stick.
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Samsung T9000 refrigerator with Evernote app
This fridge has a 10-inch screen and it plays apps such as Evernote, so you can write a grocery list and have it appear on a mobile phone. It also find mobile coupons and gives you recipes that fit what's in your fridge.
Source: Dean Takahashi
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The CST-01 is the world’s thinnest wrist watch
Central Standard Timing's watch uses an E Ink display and is only 0.8 millimeters thick.
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China’s Hisense took over Microsoft’s CES booth
It's a sign of the times and the growing strength of China in electronics.
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Intel’s technology tree
A variety of tablets and Ultrabooks adorned Intel's tech tree at CES.
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One Laptop Per Child’s XO-4
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.
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Movea’s body-tracking app
A dancer's movements are translated into a digital image as Movea shows off its motion-tracking ability.
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Jen-Hsun Huang bets big on Project Shield
The Nvidia CEO decided to launch a mobile gaming system that can play Android and Steam games on the TV.
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Sharp’s booth had plenty of 4K TVs
Sharp plans to debut its 4K Ultra HD TV this spring in North America.
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Gallagher at CES Unveiled
The watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher showed up at CES Unveiled.
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Digital guitar at Showstoppers Party
The Showstoppers Party at the Wynn had plenty of digital oddities like this guitar.
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Sony promoted next-generation 4K TVs in its booth.
Sony introduced a 55-inch OLED TV. It worked fine at Sony's booth, but not at its press conference, sadly.
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Sharp’s 8K TV was a big attraction.
Sharp's 85-inch 8K TV has 16 times as much data per screen compared to HD TV.
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Oculus Rift makes virtual reality real
You won't throw up with this game-focused virtual reality headset. It is truly immersive.
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LEGO Mindstorms robots, version 3
The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 are smarter, with better sensors and a programmable "intelligent brick."
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Sony CEO Kaz Hirai has a “blue screen of death” moment.
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.
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Toshiba had candied cakes, but no press conference.
For its CES party, Toshiba rented the swanky Mix bar atop THEhotel at Mandalay Bay. It introduced an 84-inch 4K TV.
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Ice sculpture at CES Unveiled
CES drew thousands of press who attended the CES Unveiled party on Sunday.
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The Attacknids can fire projectiles
Attacknid remote-controlled robots can be assembled into a swarm and controlled via smartphone.
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Angry Birds across three big screens.
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.
Source: Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat
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Hisense was one of many companies with the world’s largest TV.
This model is a 4K Ultra HD LED TV, weighing in at 110 inches.
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Judy Chen of the MHL Consortium
Judy Chen showed how your phone can be wired into your car display, which can mirror the image on the phone.
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Mag II gun controller
Since games aren't real enough, G-Mate created the MAG II gun-shaped controller for PC gamers.
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The Hapi Fork
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.
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3D was dead at CES, except for a few booths.
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.
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Gesture-controlled TVs
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Boom box embarrassment
These zany characters were promoting some kind of boom box that was so big it had to sit on wheels.
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Nvidia CEO demonstrates the power of Tegra 4.
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.
Source: Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat
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Born Mobile
Born Mobile is Qualcomm's name for the mobile generation that is buying billions of phones and tablets.
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Using the iPad Mini like the Huawei Ascend Mate
Sean Ludwig of VentureBeat shows how big the 6.1-inch Huawei smartphone is.
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Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom
Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli showed off a TV with a 4K HEVC home gateway, which can handle huge streams of 4K data.
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Changhong’s booth was bigger than Ericsson’s
Another sign of the times: China's Changhong had a pretty big booth to show off its consumer electronics gear.
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Razer Edge
The Razer Edge is a gamer's Windows 8 tablet with handles for game controls.
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[Image credits: Dean Takahashi, Devindra Hardawar and Sean Ludwig]
