When each year rolls around we see tech companies offering all kinds of mad devices, like hanspree who put a 40 inch television in a toy firetruck and this year put a tv in a stuffed polar bear. It seems their intentions are squarely aimed at children, but there are a ton of other companies who are pushing the envelope, little bits of their research and development gets outed at CES and this year is no different, except the gadgets are a lot thinner, faster, higher capicity and most of all, shinier.

What really grabbed me was the sci-fi related gadgetry, by this I mean things you think would have just jumped from a sci-fi movie like Minority Report or Bladerunner.

This identity card by Samsung actually moves! The square for the persons face is in fact a small OLED screen that shows the person from different angles. This is not only inredible but it's likely that the US and UK will have identity cards at some point (not that we want them) and I can imagine that they would have something like this on the card paired with RFID technology.

Samsung is pulling out all the stops, here they have a laptop screen, again using OLED but this time it's 40% transparent. That means, you can see through it. I'm not sure how productive it would be, but if they could make your desktop area whatever is behind your screen and then have applications solid over the top that would be incredible.

Phone technology is always moving on, but in the last year or so I've been unimpressed with what manufacturers have to offer, seemingly just lots of iPhone clones or traditional candy bar phones with bigger and bigger cameras. When I saw these phones from LG and Samsung, I was blown away. Despite the phones being fatter, there is a mini projector stuffed inside so you can playback video or photo slideshows anywhere.

via engadget