CES 2012: Toshiba's New Design Direction is a show standout

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Toshiba? Is that you? Looking at the Hummer-like Toshiba Thrive next to its sleek and skinny sibling the Toshiba Excite X10 shows how Toshiba has been able to drastically improve their design for their products. They already have one of the best looking ultrabooks around and now their tablets are starting to push the boundaries. Best of all, they look original and can't be accused of copying Apple in any way shape or form. This means real differentiation and fewer lawsuits. It also means consumers now have great options for products that don't look and feel like cheap plastic toys. We see you Toshiba, we like where this is going. Stay tuned for a more comprehensive photo essay of Toshiba at CES 2012

CES 2012: Lenovo's Cloud goes after the Four Screens

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Lenovo has big things planned for you. They want to give everyone a personal cloud and they want people to be able to access this cloud through a four screen strategy namely smartphones, HDTVs, tablets and computers.

Wait, did Lenovo just get into the HDTV and smartphone business without telling anyone? Well, it seems that they've been in these non-consumer PC businesses in Asia and now that they have brought a cloud solution to bring it all together seamlessly, they're aggressively chasing these two markets.

Demonstrated here at CES were some fascinating new Lenovo tablets, notebooks, hybrid ultrabooks and all-in-one PC's that are completely touch enabled and can lay flat on a surface. The big story, however, is the cloud component that works across all devices and allows various ways for people to share their information back and forth across devices.

Stay tuned for a complete photo-filled walkthrough of Lenovo's booth as well as similar coverage from Samsung, Sony, LG, Sharp and Acer.

CES 2012: Day One in Photos

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

What can I say, CES 2012 is bigger and badder than ever. Day One we saw the future of the electric car from Ford with their innovative Ford Focus Electric and Fusion (complete proprietary with solar panels that can help power the cars), more MacBook Air impersonatin' Ultrabooks than Elvis has lookalikes, Sharp's stunning next gen 4K and 8K HDTV display technology  (and nifty portable HDTVs), all kinds of awesome devices from the Showstoppers exhibit plus a way out of control (in a good way) Lenovo + Intel party featuring the All American Rejects and DJ 2nd Nature.

CES 2012: Press Day in Photos

Text and Photos By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Las Vegas: Here at CES 2012, things have started out with a bang. Ultrabooks are flooding in, every one and their uncle has a new cloud service, tablets are still crowding in and SmartTV  and connected TVs are red hot. Here's our first of a series of CES 2012 in pictures so you can enjoy the show without the crowds, long taxi queues and the unending slot machine chimes and beeps.