Perennially sprinkled around the CES show floor are televisions, computers, home appliances, cameras and other gizmos.
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Later, we heard extensive discussion of a game that was actually on the show floor at E3.
Early this morning, I blearily stumbled onto the CES show floor, barely in command of basic motor functions.
Drafted in 2011, these regulations are from an alternate universe, as a quick look around the show floor testifies.
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Once we hit the show floor here in California, we made sure to drop by for live look.
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It was unclear early Thursday whether RIM would let people hold the device at its booth on the show floor.
We will likely see rev 2 products from these vendors, at least behind closed doors if not on the show floor.
The big product categories that will dominate the CES show floor next week, according to manufacturers and analysts, are not revolutionary.
There's iLounge, iBattz, iSkin, iConnectivity, iPort and even iCat all within a few feet of each other on the show floor.
After touring the show floor, Genachowski noted the "endless rows of innovative new products, " addressing fitness, education and healthcare, among other purposes.
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It was a significantly more effective way to spend time with current and future customers than standing around an auto show floor.
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Many of the major vendors have long since abandoned the show floor.
To demonstrate its portability, 3D systems even strapped a Cube to one of its reps and sent him around the show floor.
And the show floor will be filled with monitoring and wellness devices.
But whereas the show floor would've been dominated by an abundance of next-gen tablets at shows past, this year promises to be quieter.
Earlier this morning, the company played host to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was making her annual tour of the CeBit show floor.
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We were gratified to see that Samsung sets up their show floor breaching wall just like our setup in the Engadget offices back home.
If regulators had their way, the square footage on the CES show floor would shrink by half every two years, until it just disappeared.
Even with the help of headphones it was hard to tell just how good the captures were thanks to the painfully noisy show floor.
We were eager to see how the audio performed, but it's fair to say that on a rowdy show floor this was pretty difficult.
Yesterday, Samsung announced the HomeSync Android TV box, and as expected that device is making an appearance here on the MWC 2013 show floor.
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Already lacking any participation from Apple, losing Microsoft from the show floor and the keynote calendar raises questions about the long-term viability of the event.
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CeBIT's show floor doesn't open up until tomorrow (and yeah, we'll be storming it like no other), but Netgear's wasting precisely no time in unveiling its latest wares.
Float4 Interactive ( www.float4.com), an agency from Quebec, was showing on the trade show floor how they can turn any large screen into a multi-touch interactive system.
The show floor this week also will be crawling with analysts and investors looking for ways to bet on the next new things, like tablets and smart phones.
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The touchscreen would also take some getting used to, but it seemed well within reach when we took to our gaming pose with the keyboard on the show floor.
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