For those obsessed with consumer electronics, this is the best time of year. Sunday marked the arrival of the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, bringing thousands of hardware geeks, retailers, investors, and media to Las Vegas this week. A sampling of some of the latest hardware to trickle out of SinCity:
Mine’s bigger than yours
The CES tradition of electronics one-upmanship continues, and this year Sharp brought the big guns. The company unveiled what is now the world’s largest LCD display, which comes in at a staggering diagonal width of 108 inches—9 feet for the math-impaired. The mammoth unit is nearly twice the size of the company’s previous LCD record holder (pictured), the 65-inch Aquos LC-65D90U. Sharp didn’t unveil pricing information for its new beast, but expect the big display to handily best the former champ in that category, too. Consider the 65-incher’s $10,000 price tag—and humans, for that matter—insignificant.
-Ryan Olson
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