Wewwl

Walking in to the central hall at CES I was reminded of why we come. Even with all the economic unrest, the electronics industry descends upon Las Vegas to showcase booths so extravagant Clark Griswold would be impressed.

Here industry affiliates network, companies forge partnerships and the press covers the newest and coolest toys of the tech world. While all this is going on, Wewwl infiltrates the convention to gawk at all the shiny things...and gawk we did. The following is a vague summary of my first day of CES 2010. This year I noticed 3D, 3D HD, “true 3D”, LED 3D, also 3D. In case you're not ready, prepare yourself for the 3D bandwagon. Going green was less of a big deal this year. I guess we fixed the environment last year. I didn't get that memo but I'm glad its no longer broken. Also, there was significantly less swag. We couldn't have been swag whores if we had wanted. Motorola wouldn't let us take pictures of the Droid, a phone that has been out available to the public for months. Intel had a cube you could touch to see tweets and facebook pictures. A piece of hardware that has entirely too many real world applications, like showing off at electronic conventions. Boxee showed us the Boxee Box, showed us how to turn it off and swore up and down that it will eventually turn back on. Booth after booth showed us their ideas, peddled their wares, and obligated us into swiping our cards. I'm looking forward to lots of CES spam in my inbox. But to be honest, nothing was overly impressive. Until day two.