The 2023 CES emails have been pouring in as expected, but quite a few are from companies I\u2019ve never heard of. Why is that a concern? You have to read between the lines \u2026 are there not enough of the legacy attendees to merit my attention? \u00a0I noticed the South Hall will be completely unoccupied \u2026 that\u2019s two absolutely gigantic floors of missing companies. The new West wing is fully booked, but it\u2019s not remotely as large as the other halls, and additionally, that\u2019s primarily a car show. The \u201cgift\u201d from China is still affecting the show and preventing many who wanted to appear there from the fear of catching COVID. To see who will actually be there will be interesting and will tell you something about the folks managing those companies. Do they actually understand science, or do they kowtow to irrational fears. Not to be in attendance and be part of the tech community, can be the death knell for startups. This may be their only\/final opportunity to show their tech\/products to the broader community or wait until next year when there may be competitors and that magic window of ingenuity will be gone … and with it, investors.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been reading ZDNet and other commercial \u201cnews\u201d sites about the show and I have to wonder \u2026 have they ever really been there?<\/em> \u00a0Or they wouldn\u2019t be asking the questions they are. The things they are concerned with were news six months ago. Of all the 2023 CES articles I\u2019ve read, shockingly only the non-tech Forbes seems to grasp the significance.<\/p>\n On a positive note, one complete section of the Musk tunnel will be open, saving an absurdly long and dangerous walk to Las Vegas Blvd. I have my fingers crossed for the car area as the new West Hall has barely been used since it opened and though much smaller, it\u2019s a truly nice facility. This additional new West Hall was supposed to allow all attendees to stay in one central area by eliminating the need to use multiple distant hotel meeting rooms. But I noticed some folks are still displaying quite a distance away \u2026 as an example, getting to the Aria from the main convention, during show times, is more than a trifling inconvenience, it’s a real pain. I keep wondering, what were they thinking?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You shouldn’t let someone who has never been to CES arrange meeting facilities.<\/p>\n I\u2019m fully expecting a certain degree of lunacy as CES is ground zero for this type of thing \u2026 at the show, Kohler is announcing it’s beginning to sell the $11,500 toilet shown at the 2019 CES featuring \u2026 Alexa.<\/p>\n Am I the only one who finds this frightening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2023 CES emails have been pouring in as expected, but quite a few are from companies I\u2019ve never heard of. Why is that a concern? You have to read between the lines \u2026 are there not enough of the legacy attendees to merit my attention? \u00a0I noticed the South Hall will be completely unoccupied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaffeinatedgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}