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 Photograph: Thomas Peter/guardian.co.uk Characters from Graham Greene novels are very welcome at IBM Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters Photograph: Thomas Peter/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/guardian.co.uk Well-known petrolheads Angela Merkel and the Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero inspect the future. Vroom! Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Jens Schlueter/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/guardian.co.uk Technology can be soooo tiring! Exhibition-goers in sensible clothes take a nap Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gallup/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Christian Charisius/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gallup/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Thomas Peter/guardian.co.uk 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 Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/guardian.co.uk I wonder what they're watching? Avatar, probably Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/guardian.co.uk Better than Buckaroo, I imagine. Children with very clean fingernails play a game on a touch-sensitive digital table Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gallup/guardian.co.uk