Greetings humans, Monki here reporting from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. City of Sin and technology (and porn stars). The city of neon has treated me well so far.

I'm out here checking out the newest, biggest, smallest and most expensive innovations in technology that we'll be seeing over the next year or so. Let me tell you one thing, there are some insane gadgets and gizmos out here.

It seems the prevailing theme this year is THIN. I've seen more televisions that are less than half an inch thick than I can count. One rep told me that the goal was to create a television that can be hung like a painting. And to think, a decade ago high-definition was something only the super-rich could even glimpse at. Oh, how did we cope in those dark dark days?

On a personal note, this is my first CES to attend, and it's one of those events that is really difficult to describe. For me, I've been reading about CES since I had Nintendo Power as a kid. This was long before E3 came in to existence and Nintendo always seemed to use CES to launch their consoles and other cool items. But being here...damn.

Panasonic's "booth" (I use the term lightly) is about 50 feet wide by 300 feet long. Three hundred. A freaking football field. And right in the middle is one of those razor thin 40" LCD bad boys. I want like nine of them.

I've been to a few big conventions before, ones that I thought were "big." They've got nothing on this monster. You can stand in the middle of one of the many show floors and not be able to see any outside walls of the convention center. Massive isn't a strong enough word to describe it.

I spent most of the day running around to various booths checking out the new wares that will be hitting the market and making new friends. You see, we're soon going to be covering some more tech stuff here on AICN and Harry has tasked me with finding him some cool shit to check out. I think ever since he got his blu-ray player he's officially become a tech geek too. ONE OF US.

Anyway, I'll be getting back to you guys shortly with more in-depth pieces of specific booths and a couple of sweet interviews I've landed while out here (including Alex Motherfucking Trebek). Until then though, I'm going to see if I can gank one of the bendable OLED screens from the Sony booth. (Seriously...bendable screens?) Or perhaps one of the various 3-d monitors on display. So much cool shit in one compressed space. Insane.

Oh, and if you are in Vegas working CES or just looking to buy a poor Texan a beer, drop me a line, I'll be out here covering CES until Monday and I'm always up for taking a look at cool stuff. So until next time, back up the tree I go!

-Monki