The Eyes of Silver Breeze

Now that we’ve been back in the real world for a while, we can finally start to process some of the strange and fantastic sights we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show in that arid Oz called Las Vegas. Some of them. Others of them were too horrible to ever think of again, though they’ll probably haunt our nightmares forever.

As you know if you've been following our CES 2010 coverage, the best parts of CES are the happy accidents, the incidental freakouts, the stuff that washes up in the corners while everybody's jostling to see the latest 40-acre 3D TV. And with five writers on the ground, we found a LOT of it. Cancel your appointments, shut off your pager, and settle in with several dozen of our favorite CES moments...

As you know if you've been following our CES 2010 coverage, the best parts of CES are the happy accidents, the incidental freakouts, the stuff that washes up in the corners while everybody's jostling to see the latest 40-acre 3D TV. And with five writers on the ground, we found a LOT of it. Cancel your appointments, shut off your pager, and settle in with several dozen of our favorite CES moments...

If all you knew about CES was what you see in our blog posts, you might think the whole thing was about gawking at gadgetry and making fun of poorly-worded signs. But of course, CES is a place for making connections, for striking deals, for selling your sizzle to key decision-makers. So we made a point of touching base with the industry's power players...

Before we snuck out of Vegas, we decided to do one thing that was fun. So we took a walk. Like a two and a half hour walk. Seriously, it was like three miles. But at the end of it, we found the heartbreakingly poorly marked Pinball Hall of Fame.

Samsung's new home theater system IS pretty sweet, but we're waiting to see a price tag before we commit.

It's hard for two busy CEOs to find love together, especially when their keynotes are scheduled on different nights. So Ford CEO Alan Mulally had to resort to posting his mash note to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on a notice board at CES, sharing his love with tens of thousands of passersby.

One of the things we would've liked to see at CES was Roxxxy the Robot, the latest and most horrifying advancement in sex technology: a sex robot. In researching said monstrosity, some interesting things came to light:

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We're all music lovers. Snobby, snobby music lovers. The kind of music lovers who rattle off facts and trivia for fun. The kind of lifestylers that work very hard to stay on the cutting edge of cool.

We knew the last day of CES was going to be slow when we got off the monorail (monoraaaaail) and saw even the “help the homeless” panhandler for charity had decided not to show. The guy wore a clerical collar when we saw him on previous days, though, so maybe on Sundays he has another engagement.