We spent last week at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and once again we're amazed that these companies were able to produce products that make us want to chuck the gadgets we just bought a month ago. This year's show was noticeably more upbeat than last year's recession-riddled convention, and with good reason—the tech future looks bright and, well, three dimensional. We couldn't turn a corner without bumping into some dude with 3D specs on. But that wasn't the only trend that had the show floor buzzin', we gathered our notes and put together the five coolest tech trends we saw this year. If you want to be up on what you'll be using in the next couple months, do yourself a favor and read below...
#5. E-Readers
E-Readers aren't going anywhere. Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader may be running the game at the moment, but if CES was any indication, they're going to have a lot of heavy competition in 2010. We saw formats to suit each and every type of consumer, next gen screen technologies like Marisol and PixelQi that make the current crop of paper replacements seems straight up stagnant.
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#4. 4G Powered Devices
During his keynote speech, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said: "Smartphones truly embody personal computing. Wireless connectivity is critical and 3G is great, but it's not fast enough. 4G technologies like WiMAX are needed to deliver on the promise and potential of these new devices." Well, duh. Cell phones are getting faster and more complex while wireless connectivity innovation seems to creep along slower than Eli Manning rushing for a first down. Thankfully, CES showed some promise for the future of on-the-go internet.
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#3. 1 Ghz Smartphones
We've said it before: There will come a day when your mobile phone is no longer your mobile phone, but your mobile workstation. It may sound far fetched with the current speed of phones and the current screen size limiting the amount of work you can actually accomplish on the go. But all that's a-changing. This year, we saw what could only be coined as super smartphones. Phones with screens big enough to hold all the hate Minka Kelly's gonna get from all the jealous Hollywood chicks, and processors fast enough to do properly do things companies have been claiming their phones could do for a year or two now.
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#2. Tablets
While the rumor mill churns waiting for Apple to release their much talked about tablet, other companies tried to get a jump on Jobs by dropping theirs at CES. Expect a slew of other companies to drop a tablet this year.
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#1. 3D Everything
Like it or love it, 2010 is going to be the year of 3D. Just think of Avatar as the launch party. Whether it was televisions, cameras, or video games, all the big manufactures (Sony, Samsung, LG, et al) were showing off what their vision of the three dimensional future will look like.
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