During CES, it seemed like our RSS Tubes were pushing a veritable torrent of pictures, reviews, commentaries, and press releases and it was pretty hard to keep up.  So now that the dust has quite settled, it seems like a good time to step back and look at some of the more interesting gadgets from CES that you might have missed.

For me, the most exciting in this might-have-missed category is most definitely the Light Touch by Light Blue Optics.  You may have seen the advertisements a while back for a virtual keyboard that looks sort of like a cross between a Dalek and a Cylon that sits on your work surface and projects a keyboard image that you interact with through lasers.

Light Blue Optics has taken this idea a step further with their device.  Its part pico-projector, part virtual keyboard, and part wow.  The device has a suite of customizable software that allows it to function not just as a keyboard, but as a twitter device, a media viewer, and more.  The technology itself is fairly impressive and responsive, but the idea behind it is the real genius here.  So many devices at CES display beautiful engineering but no ingenuity.  Not so here as this device could be used in restaurants for menu selection and ordering, stores for catalog browsing as well as home entertainment uses.

I hope we see more devices out there like this.

via Engadget (press release)

and Engadget (demo and hands on)