CES: Counting the colors (photos)

Looking toward the parking lot adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center, where CNET sets up shop for the week. The afternoon suns shines down on CES.

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Outside the convention center, the estimated 130,000 attendees carefully negotiate crosswalks, avoiding constant taxi and bus traffic as they rush from keynotes to the convention center floor and back.

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Inside the Microsoft booth, a futuristic scene of cutting-edge computing.

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At the Sharp booth, a man watches the i3 Wall, which demonstrates a video projection on multiple surfaces.

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A grid of lights on the ceiling of the Intel booth fades colors across the gadgets on the show floor below.

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CES attendees line up at the Dolby booth to enter the studio for a taste of the best in sound at the show.

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Demonstrating the capabilities and the quality of 3D video cameras, a show floor model dances with a colorful puzzle at the Sharp booth Friday afternoon.

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