For cord-cutters, the television makers at the Consumer Electronics Show gave us a lot of complex sorta-solutions to what is (on paper) and easy-to-solve problem.
Despite the ongoing controversy from last year's Consumer Electronic's Show, the spokesmodels are back on the floor in Las Vegas this week, many of them wearing little more than a sports bra, and some wearing nothing other than paint.
What's the difference between a robotic car made by Google, and the ones made by actual carmakers? The future, as always, was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show today.
This week in Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show will be the birthplace of all kinds of television-related innovation — massive, expensive living-room upgrades that the tech industry claims people desire, even if actual consumer research says otherwise.
The chip maker's much rumored CES announcement — the set-top box that was supposed to revolutionize the cable industry via subscribe-by-channel deals — is not a box at all, and it will not, in fact, change the way you pay for television.
After a few years of the tech press letting us know how meaningless the Consumer Electronics Show has become, this year we sense of change of tune—maybe because the big gadget trade show has some things to offer?
"Booth babes": They date back to the beginning of the Consumer Electronics Show, they've been the subject of controversy and nerd fantasy alike, and — who knows? — this week in Las Vegas might just be the last of them.
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So, about that revolutionary streaming TV device that Intel is supposedly creating in secret and will reveal at next week's Consumer Electronics Show: don't believe the rumors, at least not right now.
The Consumer Electronics Show attracts a particularly nerdy audience, but it is its booth professionals -- we've opted to adopt this less patronizing term pioneered by car blog Jalopnik -- that gives us insight into the bizarre fantasies of the tech obsessed among us.
The Consumer Electronics Show, which has birthed tech game-changers like the VCR, camcorder and Xbox, isn't expected to be all that exciting this year.
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