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CES is a four-day assault of non-stop sensory overload. Mile-long taxi lines. Ear-splitting Gaga and Beyonce pumping from every booth. Legions of disheveled businessmen thrusting marketing collateral and contagion at anyone naive enough to take the bait.
In other words, it can be a dehumanizing grind. But it's also our favorite place for window shopping. We descend on demo booths to mentally earmark the gear we'll be calling in for testing the moment we're home.
Would we really steal this stuff directly from the show floor? Well, that's a moral conundrum each of us must resolve. We don't think even Erik Malinowski, so full of sports-guy brawn, could muscle away the LG fridge you see above. And we're still trying to figure out how to get the Tesla Model S out of Nvidia's booth. Nonetheless, "Don't ask, don't tell" has been our mantra for CES 2012, so here are some of the things vendors may want to make sure they've still got before packing up.
LG French Door Bottom Freezer Refrigerator with Blast Chiller
When you're sitting down to watch the game, there's nothing more frustrating than realizing you don't have any cold ones at the ready. What's a parched sports fan to do? If you've got the newest smart fridge from LG, you're in luck. Whereas most fridges feature dual-storage drawers at the bottom, this baby reserves the lower-right quadrant for a blast chiller that'll frost up your canned beverage of choice in just five minutes. Typical refrigerators take a glacial 40 minutes to get your beer, or soda, to chilly drinkability, so you're saving valuable minutes here that could be better spent cheering your favorite team. --Erik MalinowskiPhotos: Wired Photo Staff 
