CES 2014: There's a 'Pre-Show' Before the Consumer Electronics Show (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday January 7, 2014 @07:50AM from the everything-you-never-needed-all-in-one-giant-trade-show dept.

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the largest electronics show in the U.S. these days. It's so big that small companies easily get lost among the industry giants and their huge, noisy show floor displays. But there is a press-only 'pre-show' called CES Unveiled that gives visibility to companies that don't have 20' tall displays full of celebrity shills and other razzmatazz. So, in hopes of finding some products more interesting than the inevitable CES "Oh, look! Our latest TVs are 2" wider than last year's models!" blather over incremental improvements to existing products, Tim Lord went to CES Unveiled -- and found a few products that were not repeats from previous years. Good products? Useful? Maybe, maybe not. You decide.

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Razzmatazz by ichthus · 2014-01-07 08:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Razzmatazz -- now that's a word not used often enough anymore. I shall add it to my common vocabulary forthwith.

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Dr. Evil by Sponge+Bath · 2014-01-07 08:05 · Score: 1, Funny

Sharknado with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads? No, but the swag bag is full.
Re:If CES is so pointless why do people go? by i+kan+reed · 2014-01-07 08:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Because marketers know how to lie to their bosses.