The 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES®), the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology, wrapped up over the weekend in Las Vegas. Anything and everything new for the Web was there. Gadgets for the geeks in all of us. True, attendance was a smaller this year – but the event still attracted 2,700 exhibitors, including 300 new technology companies.

So, as your Uncle Fred always liked to say, what’s the one big thing that happened there? What themes and trends and might-be-someday-soon’s really got everyone’s attention? Hard to say. There was a lot of buzz and PR-speak about “personalization meets content” technology and the “automobile’s convergence with consumer electronics” (don’t yawn just yet).

But it livened up a bit with product debuts early in the show that included a wireless wristwatch phone from LG with video chat and text messaging capabilities and from NETGEAR, which introduced an Internet TV player and a 3G Mobile Broadband router. Web TV, a product not quite ready for primetime only a few years ago, was again in the spotlight this year according to The Rebirth of “Web TV” from Sarah Perez in ReadWriteWeb. And blogger Tech-Evangelist was especially interested in the 3D Home Theater Technology at 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.

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