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That may look like a staring contest between fancy French dude and the sister of a crazy Beverly Hills housewife but it's actually French guy drawing a caricature of nutty housewife sis. Which wouldn't be newsworthy at CES unless he was drawing that caricature on a Samsung Galaxy Note. We can't type more than three words a minute on our smartphone yet Pepé Le Pew is makin' faces.

See It In Vegas:
Pop-up caricature artists all over Fremont. Samsung sponsored Souvenir Celine photos?

There were several exercise gadgets that did anything from reminding you to keep alive to monitoring sports activities and reporting vital health statistics to doctors or Facebook friends who can search WebMD. But, by far the booth that stopped us in our tracks was this Body Slimmer. Just step on it and feel your feet vibrate the fat away. Ok, maybe it was the retired superhero checking out the equipment that made us stop.

See It In Vegas:
We're pretty sure The Plaza already has this in their gym with the optional belt attachment.

After a hard workout on the flabivrator, CES guests found they could take a load off on these fancy contraptions. With not a spare chair to be found, this booth was busier than Apple's. Another section of the floor was covered with mattresses and mattress mascots for anyone that really overexerted themselves on the human vibrator.

See It In Vegas:
Any Chinatown window advertising Foot Massage. The chairs. We can't vouch for the mattresses.

Why spend time shaving in a hotel room when you can get those follicles trimmed by a professional as 150,000 of your closest friends watch? This booth promoted Schick's new Hydro 5 Power Select, the world's first custom power razor wet shave. High, medium, and low settings are available to adjust the comfort and theoretically reduce the irritation. We stopped for the pole, but one free razor may have just converted this life-long Gillette shaver into spending gajillions on Schick blades from here on out.

See It In Vegas:
Go under the blade at Art of Shaving locations in the Shoppes at Mandalay Place and Canal Shoppes at Venetian.

See It Everywhere:
The new Schick hits stores January 17 at $10.99 retail.

3D TVs made a big splash at last year's CES so we expected to spot reams of them this year and move on. Wrong - they may not be new, but they're still pretty amazing. Especially when they are bigger than our house. Or tuned to sports in the ESPN 3D lounge. Add LG's 84 inch 3DTV to our MLK Day wish list, please. We have a dream, too, that includes beach volleyball and a spike in WNBA ratings.

See It In Vegas:
Endless possibilities: Lagasse Stadium. The Cosmopolitan Lobby. High over Fremont Street.

What might be the only thing better than watching sports in 3D? Ok, make that one of two things: Playing video games in 3D. They had NBA basketball in 3D. Seated race car driving with three wide-angle screens to nearly inhale the exhaust. Can anyone picture Mike Tyson's Punch-Out in 3D? Lookout King Hippo, your triple D's don't scare us.

See It In Vegas:
3D gaming. Big Fishin' or Aladdin poppin' from the screen. Freddie Mercury even. Virtual Blackjack or roulette in three dimensional gaming glory.

That's a wrap on our awfully awesome experience at CES 2012. Did you attend this year's tech show and see anything odder than our vibrating flab-be-gone? Were you able to wait out the NBA fan for your turn at Lebron? Let us know below!