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Booth babes, dildo-wielding robots, geeks gone bad, and the Jesusphone

Picture 16-3Picture 11-3Kevin Smith-1Screenshot 014-1Mwkb2Wm-1354055897 F6Beea3370 MIt was the biggest week of the year for the gadget industry, with Macworld in San Francisco and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.


Kevin SmithKevin Smith, director of Clerks and Chasing Amy, was the celebrity guest at Macworld. Photo by Vixon on Flickr.
Screenshot 014During boom times, middle-aged geeks sometimes persuade themselves they're gangstas. Yes, tech companies still hire hot boothbabes to sell gadgets. Here's Thomas Hawk's gallery of the Babes of CES.
Picture 14-3It is traditional for attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show to investigate the gadgets at the adult industry show the same week in Las Vegas. The star attraction for the geeks: this massive dildonic robot. More on the porn event, NSFW, on Fleshbot.
Mwkb2WmThe second coming. Steve Jobs unveils the new Apple iPhone. Or the Jesusphone, as research assistant Megan McCarthy calls it.
354055897 F6Beea3370 M-1Kevin Rose, babyfaced founder of Digg, the social news site, has many fans. And they have many body parts. [Photo from Suprcilious]

10:09 AM on Fri Jan 12 2007
By Nick Denton
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