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CeBit 2010, the largest IT fair in the world

CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Well, if rows of balding men wearing crumpled business suits and looking at big screens doesn't float your boat, then the CeBit IT fair in Hanover isn't for you. You should probably go to one of those pop music concerts everyone's talking about
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Characters from Graham Greene novels are very welcome at IBM
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Check out the AR Drone, a remote-controlled quadrotor helicopter with built-in camera and WiFi and controlled by the iPhone. Would it still fly it if was holding four caramel macchiatos?
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Well-known petrolheads Angela Merkel and the Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero inspect the future. Vroom!
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CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Here, football-playing robots replicate gormless England defenders appealing in vain for offside as middle-ranking European opposition slice through their backline for the umpteenth time
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Technology can be soooo tiring! Exhibition-goers in sensible clothes take a nap
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CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Well, you could wear clothes made from recycled office files, I suppose. I actually prefer a pastel sweater from the Collezione range at Marks & Spencer
Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
This guy is so good at pinball he doesn't even need to press the flippers. He just thinks it, and gets about a zillion points
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CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Would Top Gun have become such a seminal film if Goose and Maverick had played beach volleyball wearing sunglasses like these? Sometimes, style before substance pays. Take heed, tech guys
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Not sure if these robots are going 4-3-3, or setting up with two banks of four and trying to nick something from a set piece, but they look like they're enjoying themselves nonetheless
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
I wonder what they're watching? Avatar, probably
Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
CEBIT IT fair in Hanover : CEBIT 2010, the largest IT fair in the world
Better than Buckaroo, I imagine. Children with very clean fingernails play a game on a touch-sensitive digital table
Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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