Triangle Art electronics and turntables with EgglestonWorks speakers at CES 2018
Neli took the photos this year. Mike stayed home, deciding that there was just not enough to do at CES this year. These were taken with her Samsung S8. Very nice.
CES this year is even smaller than last year.
I count a very generous 66 rooms plus or minus, including rooms for earbuds, headphones and magazines. This is a far cry from just a few years ago when we had around 200 rooms in the Venetian and 60 to 100 rooms at T.H.E. Show held nearby.
But Neli wants to go, so…. [She’ll probably be found most of the time in the Lamm room. Me? I plan on taking photos, but think I’ll also be spending some time downstairs checking out the several 1000 booths in the Sands convention center]
Here are the floor plans:
Lamm and Chord are the only people left on 34 and 35.
The rest of the rooms are on floor 29 [nothing is on 30 or 31 anymore except unrelated CES demo and meeting rooms].
CES has been declining for several years according to some statistics, not just the high-end audio portion. But it is big enough that it garners press attention, especially the main part of the convention. [“Google Assistant vs. Amazon Alexa”. OMG. As long as I can command either using my awful emulation of the Picard-esque “Computuh…”, I am good. :-)]
Got our mailer in the mail yesterday. Guess it opened September 6 [it usually opened early / mid Summer]. It is still free if you are an ‘alumni’ [otherwise $100… before it goes up to $300]. We registered, but not sure if we are truly going to attend. It is so small compared to what it was, but it is only 8 hours to drive now from Palo Alto, CA instead of 13 hours from Boulder, CO 🙂 And it won’t be snowy and icy [it has sometimes literally been minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit going over Vail pass [which has a nice rest area that we almost always stopped at. :}].
They still do not have a map of what is going to be at the Venetian so we can see who is going:
“Interactive map of the CES 2018 show floor coming soon.”
You can search by exhibitor name, but that gets old quick. To attend CES 2018Â register here.
