Thursday, January 6, 2011

Reports consumer electronics show CES Las Vegas 2011 reviews

Greetings from Las Vegas. one of the few places in the apple area you can consistently get breakfast – no amount what the time is. A burghal congenital by associates of the mob, and now THE abode to acquisition the absolute Elvis Presley Chapel of Love to renew your bells vows.

It is additionally the home of the world’s better barter appearance – the Consumer Electronics Show. CES is accepted to allure in balance of 120,000 barter visitors over the advancing anniversary – seeing the most recent and greatest articles to absorb pages of retail catalogues for months to come.

A 20 minute walk from my hotel to the Venetian for the introductory sessions is almost equalled by a 20 minute walk through the casino to the conference rooms! At the Press/Blogger lounge, there are over 60 members of the press typing away on their notebooks or iPads, getting ready for the coming sessions (or was the real attraction the free coffee and cookies?

Opening events BEFORE the show

The first session kicked off at 2pm sharp – with over 200 press, bloggers and analysts hearing about the trends for 2011.

I hope to elaborate more on this later, but let me summarise the presentation as follows:

The Consumer Electronics Association broke the market into four areas:


  • Portable v Pocketable
  • Intelligence of things
  • Miniaturisation v Sensor isation
  • From Amplification to App lification