Tech’s flagship CES show counts on meat, cars to draw crowds

CES continues to show off the proliferation of devices for every conceivable purpose, sold at every single price point, meaning a legion of product reviewers, who can easily reach huge audiences through YouTube, are needed to help consumers sift through their options. — AFP

Every year during the second week of January nearly 200,000 people gather in Las Vegas for the tech industry’s most-maligned, yet well-attended event: the consumer electronics show.

The conference, officially known as CES, takes over the city, occupying numerous hotels and airplane hanger-sized halls of the Las Vegas Convention Centre. Swarms of mostly male attendees, big plastic badges swinging from their necks, wander among the exhibition booths of some 4,500 companies showcasing everything from toilets that can talk to "flying cars” that can’t actually fly yet.