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| - This was my second year attending CES, and I enjoyed it a lot more than last year. Maybe it was because I OD'd on ibuprofen as a preventative, knowing that all that walking would wreak havoc on my back pain by the middle of the day. We also stuck to the South Hall, leaving the center for near the end of the day so that we could sit down and be wowed by the new HDTV Plus displays. North, alas, will go unexplored.
There was the usual surfeit of cases for the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini ("waterproof" is this year's buzzword), and a few new small products that caught my attention - an interesting cleaner gizmo from Lenspen, small for cellphones and larger for tablets, that really work using a new process that doesn't involve liquids; a text message app, Sendboo (free app), that translates your message in real time to any of 30 different languages and transmits it over wi-fi or Internet data plan without text message charges; the thick chocolate bar swag at iHome. It's the little things that pique my interest (and fill my ever-expanding tummy!). But my Best of Show had to be the toddler's potty with an attached tablet stand. I wonder if it comes with an app for toilet training? I tried to get a photo, but my Yelp app refused to load :((
But despite the free frozen margarita upstairs at South, and the fresh popcorn downstairs, I will not EVER divulge my parking secret! And tomorrow I may do it all again, even though the absence of major swag was a big disappointment.
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