SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Smart gadgets, lifelike video, and pocket versions of laptop computers are expected to be Consumer Electronics Show (CES) stars as the annual extravaganza follows its gizmos onto the Web.
Undaunted by global economic turmoil, some 2,700 makers of televisions, computers, mobile telephones, chips and other technological wares will tout their latest innovations at the 2009 International CES in Las Vegas from January 8-11.
Added to the mix will be studios that make films, television shows, and music delivered digitally to devices increasingly tied to the Internet.
CES itself is not immune to online trends driving much of the technology it spotlights.
For the first time, CES has its own profile page on hot social-networking website Facebook and a team will fire off curt show floor revelations in the form of "tweets" on micro-blogging service Twitter.
A CES video team will rove the event feeding content for its own YouTube channel.
