Back in January, my husband and I decided to take a few days off from work and enjoy the Consumer Electronics Show. We both really love gadgets and looking at the latest technology, and since it is held every year in Las Vegas, it is easy for us to visit! We figured that we have to see the show at least once because it’s so big and famous. The main attractions are at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and it also spans to the Las Vegas Hilton and the Venetian. A few friends also came into town to see the show too, so it was nice to see and connect with old friends.

Here are pictures that I captured with my Fuji x100 camera. I will probably write a review on the camera at some point, so stay tuned! In a nutshell, I love this camera and use it whenever I go out now. No more lugging around my big DSLR around town! It came in very handy at CES, since we were walking around the show for 8 hours a day for two days, any extra weight would be burdensome!

When we first arrived, we had no idea it was so monstrously big. It was daunting because everyone else looked like they knew where they were going except for us. But after a while we figured it out where we were supposed to go to get our badges. We just walked into and gawked at the rows of maps for all the different convention halls. We picked up some maps and then realized we didn’t even know which convention hall we were in. So we ended up just wandering around, but we lucked out because we ended up at the main convention hall. The first booth we saw was LG, which I don’t think I can describe it as a booth, because the size of it is bigger than my house. LG had one of the nicest, biggest displays, and everywhere you turned, they were touting their 3D displays. The one that greeted us was huge! There is an opening in the middle, so you can compare how big that display was to those people in the opening.

Fruit Ninja game in 3D on an LG TV, and super thin OLED Samsung displays. I was really impressed by how thin the TVs were.

Hello Kitty made an appearance at CES! This was a life sized Hello Kitty, I guess to appeal to the handful of women at CES? This Sony crystal LED display is one of my favorites. I was satisfied with my current TV until I saw this. The colors were so vibrant that I thought it would just pop off the screen!

One of the reasons I wanted to visit CES was to look at the latest camera equipment. I got to test out the Nikon D4, which was just announced the week before CES. It is such a beautifully made camera and it focuses with lightning fast speed. No doubt that you will see sports photographers using it at the Olympics this summer. No sign of Ashton Kutcher, but instead they had these models posing with the new Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras.

Phone and tablet accessories filled up half of one convention hall we visited. There were hundreds of iPhone and iPad case manufacturers. You can get blinged out cases like these!

Then there was a car and audio convention hall. The Mercedes concept cars are neat, but the doors swing out too much to be practical.

So who else wants a fridge full of Jelly Bellies besides me?! There were a fair amount of other consumer electronics, like smart appliances and of course, robots.

And then there was strange stuff like an oxygen bar. Of course I had to try it out, but it was a little uncomfortable to be so close to strangers as you are breathing in flavored oxygen. I did feel different afterwards, but I’m not sure if I would pay money to just to breathe flavored oxygen. Also, the obligatory tourist photo to prove that I was there.

We didn’t see the whole trade show, there’s just too much to see, but we definitely had a great time!