Mike Curtis of HD for Indies has written an excellent piece on his thoughts on this year's NAB. This saves me from essentially writing the same piece, just not as concise and eloquent and insightful as Mike has done. NAB always has trends, and Mike captures this year's trend - surprise announcements from people you'd never expect to do "x", doing "x".
Read it here -
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/mcurtis/story/top_ten_trends_of_nab_2012/