As we had expected, the most common gadget at CES were netbooks. Whether it was a big company or a small unknown company from the far east, everywhere you turned you saw netbooks of all shapes and sizes. The ones from the International section were particularly small and petite and tended to come in crazy colors and designs. Surprisingly enough, we didn’t really see any iPhone or iPod knockoffs – did everyone just give up? Or is that just getting old? We also noticed a lot of green oriented products this year, whether it were solar powered devices or gadgets made of totally green materials.

Overall, I think everyone will agree that the stand out product this year, which totally came out of the left field was the Palm Pre. Looks like we’re going to have to hold off on our Palm jokes for a while. At least until the Pre comes out and everyone gives it a chance.  Other products that we thought were out of the box was Seagate’s Free Agent Theater Media Player,  iLuv’s i1166 Portable Multimedia Player, and lastly Checkolite’s line of iHome Lamps.

Unfortunately, what was a bit disappointing, yet not suprising about this year’s CES, was that even though CES seemed to have just as many exhibitors as years passed, the actual showfloor was not jam packed as it usually is every year. Sure, it was busy, But usually the show floor is packed to the britches on the first two days, and that just wasn’t the case this year. This is of-course a sign of the economical climate. Here is too hoping that next year’s will have a little more umph and foot traffic. Right now I’m off to go play dominos with all the USB key press kits we collected this year.