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No one wants sets out to announce vaporware. It just sort of ... happens: The product that never ships. Like a ghost, it haunts the company that announced it. With all the technology hailed from the show floor at CES, it is inevitable that some of it will never materialize. CES always generates some vaporware, and 2012 was an especially good year.
Part of the problem is the intense focus the show generates on anything truly new or cool. CES is a place of incremental updates to current products. And timing has a lot to do with it. The Consumer Electronics Show is held after the holidays, and most of the really cool stuff is announced before the holidays. So when something of note is announced at CES, it gets a lot of attention.
And then we wait.
And, often, wait.
And, sometimes, wait some more.
And for some products, the waiting never ends. Remember the Lady Gaga glasses announced by Polaroid? Some tech never comes to pass. Here, then, is a look at the stuff we were promised at CES 2012 and continue waiting for.
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