Yesterday we saw Samsung’s gesture and voice controlled television. Today we saw Primesense’s demonstration and realized Samsung’s product was pretty lame in comparison. The Primesense product is just more intuitive, more sensitive and more responsive.

Wednesday 12:15PM – Sony gifted us a Bloggie!

Sony gave us one of their hot new camcorders to take for a test run. It’s got wifi connectivity for instant upload and live streaming on Qik. Here’s the unboxing:

We’ll do some testing on this thing and follow up with a full review.

Wednesday 11:30AM – Verizon Retail fulfills the Retail Next Prophecy

Verizon had quite the setup at CES with a number of different products featured from IT to security to tablets to retail. Retail is the section we are most excited about. Verizon has technology that will do what retail marketers knew was coming for a long time. It allows you to scan barcodes on products and add them to a virtual shopping cart, and then view a personalized experience with those products at a shopping kiosk. A 3D avatar of you will try on the clothes you might want to buy, and a personal shopper will assist you from a remote location.

Verizon also has very cool technology to complement the virtual shopping experience that tracks foot traffic in retail locations and easily see quantifiable metrics about where people are spending time in your store. Those cameras you see on the store ceiling are not just for security anymore.

Wednesday 10:15AM – The Makerbot Replicator is cheap in-home production.

Makerbot is in the very early stages of creating technology that will someday allow consumers to product products within their homes. It’s just using plastic right now, and can make things like toys and trinkets, maybe a phone case or two. Someday, though, we might be able to do something as complex as make our own cameras from the raw materials and production blueprints we buy.

Wednesday 9:30AM – Tobii Eye Control

On Wednesday, we hit the long tail of CES, getting away from the major manufacturer booths and heading for the niche products. We found some really interesting tech in the long tail.

Tobii is applying the eye tracking technology from usability tests for consumer applications.

Tuesday 2:00PM – Motorola’s Motoactv knows how to get your heart pumping

The Motoactv is what you’d get if an iPod shuffle and FitBit had a baby. It’s part MP3 player, part fitness tracker. The difference is that it uses an algorithm to determine which music helps you during your workout, and uses that intelligence to generate playlists. It’s compact enough to fit on your wrist.

Tuesday 12:45PM – Sony’s Bloggie, the Hummer of handheld camcorders

Sony introduced a cool little handheld camera for the doers of the world. It’s waterproof and sand proof and has a thick protective exterior to fend off almost anything. I’ve owned a zi8 and a couple flipcams in my time, and just by the feel of the Bloggie, I’d say it could eat both of them alive. Oh and it has wifi connectivity for livestreaming as well. It will launch in March at $199.

Tuesday 12:30PM – Sony’s “Play Watch Listen Share”

There wasn’t anything groundbreaking about three quarters of what Sony had to show us at CES. But the “Play” piece of what they’ve built is pretty amazing. Sony has created true cross-platform gaming, in which you can play the same game with the same save file or against a friend regardless of platform. Start a game on the Playstation Vita; finish it on the PS3. Use your smartphone to play against a friend on his PS3 in real time. It’s never been done before.

Tuesday 12:00PM – On the Fly with Dan Gnecco

Tuesday 11:15AM – Samsung’s Remoteless TV

We caught a demo of Samsung’s new Smart TV model that can be controlled by voice and hand gestures. It also has facial recognition technology.

Tuesday 11:00AM – Samsung OLED TVs

Samsung’s OLED TVs (and the new OLED TVs we saw from many other manufacturers) are incredible. Every time you think TV picture can’t get better it does. We’ve never seen the color black so pure on a screen before.

This picture doesn’t do it justice.

Tuesday 10:05AM – LG’s smartThinQ Technology – In another corner of the LG exhibit, the intelligence we’ve all thought our kitchens would have some day has finally arrived.

LG has a line of kitchen appliances (enhanced by your LG smartphone app) like a refrigerator that keeps inventory, builds shopping lists and recommends recipes based on your family’s dietary needs and an oven that programs itself to cook those recipes.

Tuesday 9:45AM – Schneidermike On the Fly

Tuesday 9:20AM – LG sets the bar! – The line of TV products from LG are arguably the most impressive thing here at CES.

The 3D TV demonstration from LG is hard to miss, and well worth showing off. Chatter about 3D TV has been going on for years, but it feels closer than ever now. The glasses are lighter than ever, and the 3D is very forgiving of whatever angle from which you’re watching it.

LG is focused on gaming, even though some video games work better in 3D than others…

LG has applied 3D technology to bring an end to split screen gaming. Glasses with two 3D LEFT lenses and complementary pairs with two 3D RIGHT lenses allow two people in the same room to look at the same screen and view their half of the gaming experience at full size.

LG has also developed TVs that support gaming in the cloud. Games are streamed from a remote server to the TVs. Now, it’s not time to throw out your XBox 360 just yet, but imagine a Netflix-like gaming experience that loads right to your TV and lets you play with others elsewhere in the world.

Tuesday 1:30AM – Burgers.

Monday 11:20PM – Touched down in Las Vegas. There are slot machines in the airport terminal. They take gambling seriously here.