The winners and losers of CES 2012 Now that our jetlag is subsiding, it’s time to take a look back at the utter madness that was, and always is, the Consumer Electronics Show. CES 2012 didn’t have a huge amount of absolute stand out kit, but for a time of financial uncertainty, there sure were a lot of launches and the industry certainly hasn’t been shy in terms of coming forward with expensive designs. This was the biggest CES ever, with 1.861 million square feet of exhibit space, beating the previous record from 2008.
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CES 2012 highlights The world’s greatest tech show – CES 2012 – kicked off on Monday 9 January (if you’re a show obsessive, note that’s a week later than usual). Running until Thursday, the show sees the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas. It covers more than 1.8 million square feet and has more than 140,000 attendees from across the globe.
CES 2012 round-up It’s digital Christmas! For the tech industry, January’s Consumer Electronics Show is more exciting than waiting for Santa to come down the chimney: it’s when the big names of consumer technology show off their biggest and best products – and by “biggest” we mean “smallest”, because this year thin is in. Tech firms usually boast about power or pixels, but this year they sounded more like supermodels who haven’t eaten anything but air for six months. Take LG, for example: its 55-inch OLED TV wasn’t remarkable for its screen size, but for its thinness: it’s just 4mm thick, which means it’s thinner than any of LG’s phones. Marc Chacksfield has an important warning, though: “it’s not as light as a phone”.
LG and Microsoft have inked a patent agreement that covers all of LG’s Android tablets and mobile phones, and – oddly – any devices running Chrome OS. Since LG doesn’t have any devices running Chrome OS we’re assuming that means there’s a Chromebook on its way from the company in the near future. The new agreement, which builds on a pre-existing deal, sees LG join the throngs of Android manufacturers paying Microsoft for use of its patents, including HTC, Samsung and Acer