ACTUAL photos from CeBIT 2008!

Someone actually went. And took photos. They're not the best photos in the world, but they do feature the sort of things we like - blatant corporate sexism, sad men, batteries, and things that look like faces. Never before has a reader got so far beneath our skin.



Our favourite company Skins Mobile was at CeBIT! Our reporter cleverly focussed his efforts on its booth for quite some time.



Skins Mobile had a reassuringly sexist display, featuring women in a jacuzzi demonstrating the waterproof nature of its product. It's this sort of imagination that has seen Skins Mobile emerge as a true contender in the accessories market.



This is as close as our reporter dared get.



It's just about close enough.



"The display booth of 'Skins' or 'Skinz' or 'Skin2', or now that I look at it more closely, it could also be "Sk1n2" only all in capital letters but I can't be bothered to go back now and change my own text. The first four images were (poorly) taken with my Canon EOS 400D, the rest with my friend's cellphone. He seems to be better at taking pictures than I am but mine come in higher resolution so let me know if you want them bigger (no pun intended)."



Fantastic.



Such an intimate and personal series.



It's like you're in the room with them, only they're not screaming "GET OUT! WHO ARE YOU? GET OUT OR I'LL CALL THE POLICE. DON'T HURT ME."



Yes, there are more.



We hereby award the photographer the The St. Idiot Toys Cross for Bravery and Shamelessness in the Field. Triple-A lechery.



And now it's about to get ever RUDER and HOTTER!



"The particularly (un?)impressive booth of 'Shenzhen Betterpower Battery Co., Ltd.'. Only they wrote: 'SHENZHEN BETTERPOWER BATTERY CO., LTD.'. As I have learned from your site (and as common sense implies), capital letters always mean that something is important - so I decided to take a picture. Also, note how the walls are designed with an unobtrusive battery outline in red on white. Classy."



"I think they make batteries. Or LSD in battery-shaped containers, couldn't quite make it out but the last picture implies something of that nature. Unfortunately there was no staff around that I could've asked."



"And of course the obligatory "Gadgets with Faec... Faces". One taken with, one without flash (you guess which is which)."



"It looks like the one with the silver accents is kind of "indifferent"... or perhaps just "idly alert" (if there is such a thing... it seems to be waiting for you to ask it to do something... it's only able to act so innocently because it can't see the mangled body of the bronze-accented one on the right. Or maybe that one's breakdancing."



"Had to include these. A photographer photographing. How ingenious. And a photographer telling me to "get the f*ck out of the picture". Only in German. This concludes my little voyage into the outskirts of idiot-dom. Or was it idiot-ism? Idiot-icity? I'm sure you can figure it out. Best regards, Marcel M."



THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Marcel. Genius work. It's this sort of effort that we're more than happy to take credit for.