I'm just packing my bags ready to head for Las Vegas tomorrow, along with freelance Ashley Norris, for the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). As Information Week puts it:
Hot new gadgets, gaming, telematics, media and content services, and a bevy of other new technologies will make their appearances next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The conference, which is expected to draw more than 100,000 attendees, is now one of the largest conventions and trade shows to be held in the city. With keynotes from Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect; Craig Barrett, the CEO of Intel; and Carly Fiorina, the chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, CES provides a cross-section look at the latest technologies from providers of content, software, hardware, and silicon.
The hot topics should include portable video players, digital home products (including the next generation DVD wars), VoIP phones, in-car electronics, and everything mobile and wireless. Whether Gates will preview the Xbox 2 remains to be seen.
