New Year? It might have been memorable for Ryan Seacrest and Taylor Swift, but for technology, the clocks don’t really change until this weekend, when the annual International CES gets underway in Las Vegas.
Of course, there have been pseudo-trends, too. 3D TV, pushed heavily in 2010 and 2011, never took off. Last year Qualcomm unveiled a chip made specifically for smart TVs, the Snapdragon 802, then cancelled it. And many of the e-readers that appeared at CES 2010 never appeared on store shelves after tablets and cheap Kindles ensured they could never compete.