Thermaltake, VR21, Tervan, Peridyme, SSU Kai, Samsung
Thermaltake had a large and quite professional stand:
They had a slew of products on display, including the usual selection of cases and few cooling products. A gargantuan cross-flow tower cooler was impressively huge:
 
These two pictures below completely fail to show the clever thing about this particular screen.
 
The reason why, is that it was displaying a three-dimensional picture, that obviously requires two eyes or lenses for the illusion to work. In fact, this system is not simply interleaving two images as seen with earlier systems or 3D glasses, but eight images form the illusion and help keep it visible even at quite an angle from the screen. According to VR21 Pty Ltd, this AUD $38k system requires software to be written for it, or there is a plugin for 3D Studio available. So, it won't automatically work in your favourite game via a driver or anything, although it does support OpenGL and DirectX. The system was quite impressive, displaying fairly convincing 3D objects, particularly when you were directly in front of the screen. I had no idea this kind of technology existed - it's not quite at the level of the Death Star model during the briefing scene in Star Wars, but it's certainly a step towards something I basically thought was impossible to do. Having said that, I found the illusion a little tiring on the eyes and brain to watch for too long and I think many observers shared that feeling.
Tervan were displaying this alien-faced case among other things, with a different optional faceplate also shown.
 
Peridyme had a large and busy stand, but so arranged that only a small entryway allowed access, and it was full of people the two times I wandered past. There didn't seem to be anything specific people were looking at, but from the outside Manaz spotted this interesting hard-drive cage, fitting 4 drives into 3x 5.25 bays.
SSU Kai had a small stand with an array of small LCD screens:
These little displays were all the rage a year or so ago, but I haven't seen many mods using them lately. Wolfy's DIY Parallel-Port LCD mod article still gets a few hits, though.
Samsung had their usual impressive wall display, of the larger type of LCD screens:
At left below is what they're calling the world's biggest LCD monitor, a 57" model. At right below is their 80" plasma screen. Both excitingly expensive.
 
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