Last year at CES, 3-D television and tablet computers -- or at least the promise they represented -- were all the rage.

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As always, there was the fun, the quirky, the eye-searing white lights (thank you Audi), and the massive 3-D displays that are always center-stage at CES. Still, it did feel different.

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But the PlayStation 3's high profile at CES is "primarily because of the introduction of 3-D gaming, " Dolan said.

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Several companies at CES, including LG and VIZIO, are touting "cinema display" 3-D -- for the home.

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Alcatel wasn't shy about letting the world know that it'd debut a quad-core 5-inch smartphone here at CES, but now we have a better understanding of the company's lofty ambitions for the One Touch Scribe HD.

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Critical mass seems to be growing for serious patent reform legislation in the U.S. At the CES Innovation Policy Summit, the best-attended session so far featured Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), who is co-sponsoring a bill which would severely limit the ability of holding companies to use the patent system to extort settlements, especially in the highly-litigated information technology sector.

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D-Link's Gaming Router (DGL-5500) will be displayed at the 2013 International CES, Jan. 8-11, 2013 in Las Vegas and will be available in late-Spring throughout D-Link's vast network of retail and e-tail outlets in the United States.

ENGADGET: D-Link's DGL-5500 802.11ac gaming router ships with Qualcomm's StreamBoost tech