Favorite thing at CES?

By Mark Lukasiewicz, NBC Universal

Favorite thing at CES? Hard to know since I've barely seen the show!! Keeping tabs on everything inside the NBCU booth keeps me pretty attached to "the fishbowl" a small office/control room where I sit with Tim Wong, Jack Morton's technical director, and monitor what's happening on our multiple stages and on the 70+ monitors around the booth.

Most fun? Having my kids at home use the controllable webcam suspended above the booth to find me - live. Every year at CES, I wear what I call my "where's waldo" red NBC baseball cap to make sure my team can find me in the crowd -- it makes it easy to spot me on the webcam, too.

Saturday is always a little quieter in the booth, though. The major news coverage from CES is over ... and after two days of non-stop television production for CNBC, along with MSNBC and the NBC Stations, the main stage at Central Hall #9836 has been taken over by some great web shows, such as Hack College, Tech Podcasts Network and Plan 8. And our Sharp / NBC Universal Multimedia Lounge remains busy with a steady stream of bloggers enjoying the comfortable chairs and the live broadcast of the Jets/Bengals game -- airing right now on NBC.

There's no question CES 2010 feels much different than 2009. The pessimism of a year ago has given way to some cautious optimism in the industry represented here ... and some genuine excitement about the products on display, especially 3D TV and the incredible array of interconnected mobile devices. The big debate among our own team here: will wearing glasses to watch 3D in your own home feel like too much of an impediment to make 3D really take off?

Well, in the meantime, there's always 3D TV -- Rachel Maddow style!!