CES: When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro

If you go the the Consumer Electronics Show and spend all your time gawking at the giant televisions and checking out the new mobile phones and tablets, you are missing the best part. Wander the miles of aisles in the Las Vegas Convention Center and the various hotels, and you will find a place that Hunter S. Thompson would surely love. (And in fact, he did.)

There were stuffed animals, rappers, ridiculous products, bad signage filled with Engrish, booth babes stuffed into tight t-shirts, guys in Elvis costumes, guys in Kiss costumes, guys in ninja outfits, guys on skateboards, guys in monkey suits, and at least one guy wearing brain-wave controlled cat ears.

There was an opening keynote that featured special guests Steve Ballmer, Guillermo del Toro, Big Bird, Bishop Desmond Tutu and Maroon 5. There was an Epic Fail of a Sony press event that included the first ever launch of a 4K OLED TV, featuring an impressive demonstration of the Blue Screen of Death.

There was a Danny DeVito sighting. Snooki was there, 50 Cent was there, Ke$ha was there, The Killers were there, Arianna was there, Bill Clinton was there, Mark Cuban was there and Marc Benioff was there. There was a Bryce Harper sighting.

There was a heckler at FCC Julius Genachowski's speech - a speech in which the FCC Chairman revealed that his children call him "Mr. Poopy Boss." And there was a seriously angry one-man protest march outside the LVCC, irritated as all get-out that camera companies are refusing to provide him parts so he can operate his camera repair business.

Here's a collection of some of the pictures I shot with my iPhone while wandering the floor.