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We swung by Toshiba and were immediately caught off guard with the demo of Spatial Motion Interface technology, which basically lets you control stuff with your hands. There was a black square on top of sizable flat-screen for the demo, where the Toshiba rep was spinning around a "ball" comrprised of small pictures with a few pulls and waves with her hands. She was able to play video, zoom in, stop the video, rewind and pick more stuff -- like television's version of tai chi.

Then came the Regza LCD television that was essentially built to lean against the wall. Depending on how you look at it, it's either a clever nod to modern design or another sign that people are getting too lazy. I can imagine someone gruffly spouting "What, we can't mount TVs anymore?" We'll let you decide. Personally, I think the TV's tight.

I'm referring to Sharp's practically anorexic (about 1 inch) Limited Edition LCD TV. We shot some video and pics of this thing, which puts out a beautiful picture and some pretty good sound, thanks to a partnership with Pioneer. I managed to get some face time with a Sharp exec about it.

Only thing that truly stings? The price. The model we checked out can be yours for about $11,000.

My first (and last) full day of CES is done. Instead of boring you with an giant roundup, I'll be giving you bite-size chunks of some of the stuff Al and I saw. Al's got pics and videos, I've got words.

You saw the Greenpeace stuff, so after that, it was off to Capcom. They were one of the few companies showing off games in a suite E3-style, so I played Bionic Commando, Resident Evil 5 and a cute, odd game called Flock. Quick impressions about the games after the jump.

As the headline says, we're shutting it down here as far as the blogging. I'm going to see if Harrell or any of his co-workers are available for some face time. This was educational.

If anyone wants to see for themselves, you can check out Greenpeace.

I'm looking at the list of companies that refused to participate in the report. Among them are Nintendo, Microsoft, and Apple. Someone just asked about Apple not participating and wondering about how the Macbooks would have scored. Problem is, there wasn't enough info to go on to make a score -- nor was there time. That's kind of sad. I'd be really curious about how green a lot of these popular products would be, like the Xbox 360s or Wiis that a lot of people have at home.

That's the main message Harrell stressed in moving forward. He also mentioned industry standards, reconsidering business models to work in green outlooks.

There's also more talk of toxic chemicals -- a precautionary approach and being more active in phasing out chemicals.

We got a hard copy of the report, so I apologize for not being more specific. We'll pore through it with more time, because there's some good stuff in it.

Ah, Harrell is taking questions right now. It's a little hard to hear in here, but I'll see if anything else jumps out.

"Progress is being made. These companies understand what green is. We are moving in the right direction," Harrell said.

A few years ago, when Greenpeace first surveyed companies, a lot of the products they looked at scored poorly. Now, Harrell points to the Lenovo L2440x LCD monitor, which scored a 6.9 out of 10, the highest-scoring product in the report.

More observations:

"We need to see the green products being marketed better," Harrell said. He also was looking for international standards to make better comparisons among products.

We're looking at the highest scoring products in phone, desktop and mobile phone categories. The top phone comes from Samsung -- but as Harrell says, the scores aren't very high. I'm seeing 5s.

Casey Harrell of Greenpeace is hoping for electronic manufacturers to make more of an effort of be watchful of the environment. I'm looking at pictures of massive e-waste sites in places like Africa, as well as shots of toxic chemicals used in electronics -- all on a slideshow.

He's talking about the Greenpeace's Green Products Report 2.0. It took a little over three months of work with a lot of companies submitting everything from laptops to game consoles to mobile phones. It was voluntary participation from each company.

Harrell is talking about the evaluation criteria for the reports such as lifecycle, energy efficiency, chemicals, marketing.

The next edition of Inland Living Magazine is about going green, so Al and I are here at the Greepeace press conference at CES. We're just waiting for things to get started. The conference is going to focus on the Greenpeace Electronics Survey, so let's see what happens.

Flipping through the press packet, I see a lot of stuff about current electronics and how green (or not green) they are.

OK, time to get started.

Finally, a full day of sensory overload. Among other previously mentioned gadgetry, Al and I have a meeting with Greenpeace at 10, and we're also going to be looking at other various forms of green technology as well as its applications today. It's one of the show's big themes.

On the gaming side of things, it'll be off to Planet Hollywood and Capcom, where I'm probably going to get a face full of spewing zombie action playing Resident Evil 5, some Street Fighter 4 and anything else that's there. I want to see what happens with RE5 -- playing the demo at E3 felt clunky. Maybe it was me, maybe it was the controls. I'll find out today.

We'll be out and about, trying to gather as much as possible. Hope you enjoy it. Be back later.

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