VentureBeat's take on the top 10 trends of CES

We didn’t cover all of the 2 million square feet of exhibit space at the 2014 International CES, but we’ve got the blisters and sore bones to show that we tried. Now that we’ve left Las Vegas and the huge tech trade show, we’ve been able to think about what the biggest trends were.

We’ve walked our 30 miles or so through the convention halls. We liked what we saw. Of course, we only saw a small slice of the tens of thousands of products on display. We’re glad to see fads like 3D glasses for TVs fade away. And it was interesting to see how “phablets,” or phones with huge, tablet-like screens, have caught on in places like Asia even though we’ve ridiculed them in the past.