CES is a daunting show to cover, filled with emerging technologies, new products hoping to change the world, and a few goofy surprises here and there. What you don't often see is what goes on around the fringes of the show: the products that don't get written about, the booth designs intended to draw your eye and get you to walk in, and the weird tricks companies try to get your attention.

This year every major player wanted you to put on glasses to look at content, you could get your picture taken with Elvis at a few different places, and if you knew were to look you could sit in Captain Kirk's chair. Welcome to our CES, in pictures.

At the Panasonic booth, huge slabs of 3D glasses were brought out to allow patrons to see what few seemed interested in buying. One of the themes of CES this year was the number of plastic glasses you were asked to wear at most booths.

One booth was showing off sniper rifles for the Wii and the PS3. While the Wii accessories had a slot for the controller, the PS3 gun simply added standard Dual Shock controls to a gun body.

Samsung's booth was technically impressive, but rather dizzying to walk through.

"Pleo Lives!" The booth was proud to be showing the robotic dinosaur at CES, and the crowds were likewise happy to see him.

Augmented Reality reared its ugly head. This game uses remote-controlled plastic vehicles with video-equipped controllers for an experience that's part toy, part video game, and way too big for your basement.

The idea behind this product? The ability to see through the clothing of women and take pictures with your cell phone. There was a cardboard cutout wearing a dress, and you could see—right there!—everything beneath it simply by peering through the product. Classy.

Microsoft didn't make a big deal out of its limited 3D offerings, but there was a game for Xbox Live Arcade called Scrap Metal that you could play using the old-style red and blue anaglyph glasses.