ces - Behind the scenes

The next explosive growth in the microprocessor industry, according to chip guru Levy Gerzberg, won't be powering a consumer electronics device. It will more likely be planted somewhere in our own bodies, under our skin, delivering critical information and executing actions that can quite literally prolong our lives.

Speaking at a forum at the Consumer Electronics Show on disruptive technologies, Gerzberg, the CEO of microprocessor designer Zoran, said that by definition a "disruptive technology" is one that changes our lives in a drastic and positive way. With that in mind, there can be no greater disruptive technology, … Read more

Little over a month since Facebook's Beacon advertising service came under fire over privacy concerns, the company's chief revenue officer has said that the "social ad" will remain a key focus for the social-networking site.

Owen Van Natta, chief revenue officer at Facebook, told an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show that most Facebook users are comfortable with sharing information about the products and services they consume.

Facebook's Beacon is an advertising service which posts messages on users' Facebook profiles about any purchases they make on Facebook-affiliated e-commerce sites. These social ads expose to other … Read more

Smack in the middle of the Las Vegas Convention Center, Central Hall shows off some of CES' wildest booths and exhibits. CNET photographers scoured the hall on Tuesday to bring you the best photos in this CES 2008 slideshow.

Tuesday is only halfway over, and CNET's photographers have already seen a day's worth of excitement from CES, much of it musical in nature. Follow their footsteps in our CES 2008: Day two slide show.

The natural human interface has been a huge theme at this year's CES.

Bill Gates talked up the Surface Computer and voice recognition in the car, Paul Otellini talked up the gesture-based interface of Nintendo Wii, and there were plenty of new ideas around interfaces exhibited on the trade show floor.

Natural human interfaces, ones that involve human movement, for example, tend to be incredibly engaging. It's rarely more noticeable than at CES--the crowds nearly always gather around those exhibits that provide some kind of interactivity. One of the most popular has been the WAVEscape advertising platform, developed … Read more

The gadgets at the International Consumer Electronics Show certainly take center stage, but the huge tech show attracts its fair share of human celebrities as well. Check out the people and the performances that caught our attention in our CES day of photos.

From Bill Gates' final CES hurrah to Yoko Ono and will.i.am, CES launched with a star-studded cast. See the full CNET CES slide show.

Early access to the CES showroom floor isn't always as glamorous as you might imagine, as we found out first-hand at the Panasonic booth. Our prying eyes made our way to an open back door revealing some of the company's to-be-announced goodies--but we were swiftly denied recording access as a nimble Panasonic rep jumped in the way of our filming.

For full disclosure purposes, I am an early adopter, not a mainstream consumer. I shoot video in HD and edit in HD. My home is filled with advanced technologies covering the full spectrum of computing.

I am also the CTO of AMD.

My role at the company is to imagine the possibilities of bleeding-edge technology and determine the innovation necessary to bring that to life (both in-house and with partners) for our customers--ideally in a way that is intuitive, exciting and satisfying for mainstream consumers.

I believe leading edge innovation drives enthusiast adoption, which in turn seeds future mainstream market … Read more