By: Michael Phillips

The title “8 Million Ways to Die” was already taken, so “The Grey” had to settle for “The Grey,” named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from great heights. Harsh outcomes abound for man and beast…

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By: Kat Rosenfield

It won’t be long now before we’re actually watching “The Hunger Games” movie, instead of just thinking about it, talking about it, choreographing interpretive dances about it and obsessing over every last little sneak peeky tidbit the studio deigns to tease us with. (What do you mean, you haven’t been choreographing interpretive “Hunger Games” dances? AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A FAN.)…

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“The Descendants” and “The Artist” were named the best pictures of 2011 at the Golden Globe Awards, suggesting — perhaps — that they  may be the front-runners for Oscar’s best picture.

It was no surprise to see either film — one a silent picture that triumphed as best musical or comedy, the other an Alexander Payne/George Clooney collaboration deemed best drama — win awards given the critical praise and buzz surrounding both.

More surprising was the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press went in an entirely different direction by giving best director to Martin Scorsese for “Hugo” and and best actress to Meryl Streep — not Viola Davis.

Streep — regaled for her toothy and steely portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” —  even thanked Davis at the end of her speech. That was after she triggered the NBC telecast’s seven-second delay by uttering the s-word when she realized she had left her reading glasses at her table.

Streep triggered the seven-second delay instead of Ricky Gervais? Who would have thought? And she wasn’t the only winner who got a little randy onstage. Yes, we are looking at you, George Clooney.

“The Descendants” star accepted his Golden Globe for best actor in a drama by first speaking warmly of fellow nominee Brad Pitt, then acknowledging the, uh, endowments of Michael Fassbender, nominated for his compelling (and frequently naked) portrayal of a sex addict in   “Shame.”

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LAS VEGAS — There were some things that happened here in Vegas that we hope don’t stay here: new technologies and gadgets and devices that deserve an audience larger than the reported 150,000 industry folk who swarmed the Las Vegas Convention Center this week hoping to see the next big thing at the Consumer Electronics Show.

Some came from the usual suspects: Hewlett-Packard outed one of the most beautiful laptops that one you’ll ever touch. LG continues to make breathtaking new televisions. And Samsung’s entire show floor might as well have received a blue ribbon for uniform excellence.

While others came from disruptive startups, like Exopc from French Canada, and Microvision, a 100-employee outfit in Microsoft’s backyard in Washington state.

While there were many, many dozens of products that I saw that are worthy of larger recognition, I’ve honed in on nine here for your enjoyment and appraisal. These represent unique technologies, mastery of design, intriguing concepts and noteworthy innovation in their respective fields. Mostly, they just made me say, “Wow.”

These are my choices for the very, very best gadgets I saw at CES 2012. There will be a larger post to follow this weekend (a mega wrap-up) with the best of the rest. But for now, you can put a gold star on these, the best gadgets of CES 2012.

For more from the Las Vegas tech extravaganza, check out our roundups of the nine  worst gadgets from CES, seven new smartphones that stole the show, nine wild gadgets for music lovers, and seven Ultrabooks that could take on the MacBook Air.

Then, visit our CES 2012 Big News page for everything in between.

INTEL SOURCE LINK: huffingtonpost.com