What The Tech: What happens after the Consumer Electronics Show ends?
While CES is best known for flashy gadgets, big announcements, and viral demos, many
companies come to Las Vegas for reasons viewers never see on TV.
While CES is best known for flashy gadgets, big announcements, and viral demos, many
companies come to Las Vegas for reasons viewers never see on TV.
A lot of what we see at CES will never make it to store shelves. But every now and then, something strange, clever, or unexpected turns into the next big thing.
As CES wraps up, robotics companies will leave Las Vegas with massive amounts of data
gathered from real human interactions on the show floor.
As health tech continues to move into the home, the focus is shifting away from treatment and
toward prevention.
This is what CES is really all about. Not just massive booths and headline grabbing
announcements, but smaller companies with big ideas.
The week at CES always starts with CES Unveiled, the event where the most unusual ideas
show up first.
For more than half a century, CES has been where some of the most important consumer technologies first
appeared. It is also where a few very ambitious ideas quietly disappeared.
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