Yes,
CES 2018 the (Consumer Electronic Show) is over for this year and I
am taking today to recuperate from all the walking I have done in the
last four days. My phone automatically records how many steps I take
each day and sometimes it reached 17,000 per day. Needless to say
there was no partying at night for the last four days.
It
was a tremendous show with about 178,000 people attending with more
than 3900 exhibitors and more than 2.75 million square feet of
exhibit space spread all across Las Vegas which makes it the largest
show in CES history.
People
come from every country in the world to attend. At times it is just a
sea of humanity walking the show isles making it hard to get through.
The
show was so large that it was impossible to see it all as it covered
6 very large convention halls and 7 hotels. I managed to see all 4
areas in the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) and the 2 floors of
the Sands Expo center which are the main exhibit areas. To see more
required too much time riding on a bus which cut into seeing the
exhibits. There are large tents outside the halls which also feature
companies or products geared to a narrower segment of the attendee’s.
I don’t bother with many of those. I did however check out the
Gibson Guitar building which has hundreds of guitars that people can
try and buy if that is their wish. It also featured a large stage for
shows but I don’t know if anyone was headlining there.
Speaking
of headliners, many sports figures show up at vendor booths to help
promote products. The pay is probably pretty good.
If
someone can dream of a way to use electronics in a product it was at
the show. From automobiles to motorcycles to drones to virtual
reality to artificial intelligence to smart cities. It is called “the
Internet of things” or IoT for short.
I
did take some photos but I have been warned that using them may
violate copy right laws so I will defer. Unfortunately, sometimes
only a photo will do as an explanation, that being said, so I will go
on to other subjects.
There
are only 2 of us here this year, myself and my desert buddy Jeff. We
stay downtown in a small RV park and drive to Circus-Circus casino
each day to catch a shuttle bus to the exhibit halls. At the end of
the day we do the reverse, dragging our tired bodies back to our
RV’s. After we spend a few minutes exclaiming over the things we
have seen or collected during the day (we call it SWAG) we walk to a
nearby casino or restaurant for dinner (nothing fancy) and then take
a walk down the Fremont Street Experience before we had back to our
RV’s. We both sleep good.
Tomorrow
I will buy groceries and then pick up Clyda from the airport. We will
have dinner with friends who moved here a few years ago then get
ready to leave for Quartzsite Monday morning.
