CES

I struggle to get a grip on the physical size of EICMA.

This is the size of CES in Las Vegas.

It's not a motorcycle show, but just to give you a sense of, like, as a trade show.

It is the scale of the Consumer Electronics Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

But, like, honestly, there's going to be nothing.

But then CES hits.

And so for me, from like my schedule, it's CES, you know, a lot less Apple related stuff, but I'm still busy.

So we've got CES and then typically Samsung will release its flagship towards the end of, you know, January.

And then we'll start to hear some rumors about whatever Apple might have in March.

But if this is a new era with Apple and, you know, they want to release products more frequently, could there be something in January, February, March and April where we typically get one of those months? Do we get...

It was in January of 2004.

I was walking down the aisle at CES.

It was the upper balcony kind of area between Central Hall and North Hall.

And here comes Leo Laporte walking my way.

Yeah.

of some really compelling coverage of the whole audio video industry.

And boy, hasn't it evolved over the last 17 years? Boy, I've been going to CES much longer even than I've been doing this show, and you have too.

I think I started about 1991.

And this here, this $400 million is actually money that's been distributed to creators who were launching startups.

In terms of when you see the impact in seeing these startups around the world, 25% of the products at the Eureka Park at CES, and Eureka Park is kind of like the startup tent at CES, were Kickstarter funded projects.

And one out of every 10 projects at the Maker Faire, both in the Bay Area and in the New York Maker Faire last year, were Kickstarter-funded projects.

Lastly, this past year, Time has their 25 most innovative or greatest inventions of the year.

I mean, folks out there listening, make sure that you're... that you're keeping up with everything that's going on.

It's been a busy fall here at Embedded Computing Design, and the winter is shaping up to be just as busy as we ramp up from Electronica straight towards CES, because I'm going to be there in Vegas.

And if you're going to be there, let us know what you're going to be doing.

I might be able to swing by your booth or have a meeting or even record an episode of System Chat or Embedded Insiders even while I'm there.

So make sure that you're reaching out.

to me or to Tierra to line that stuff up if you're going to be at CES.

But that's about it, I think.

Awesome.

It was in January of 2004.

I was walking down the aisle at CES.

It was the upper balcony kind of area between Central Hall and North Hall.

And here comes Leo Laporte walking my way.

556 episodes.

of some really compelling coverage of the whole audio video industry.

And boy, hasn't it evolved over the last 17 years? Boy, I've been going to CES much longer even than I've been doing this show.

And you have too.

It was in January of 2004.

I was walking down the aisle at CES.

It was the upper balcony kind of area between Central Hall and North Hall.

And here comes Leo Laporte walking my way.

Yeah.

of some really compelling coverage of the whole audio video industry.

And boy, hasn't it evolved over the last 17 years? Boy, I've been going to CES much longer even than I've been doing this show.

And you have too.

So some of the things you probably have seen is I, you know, I, I was so fortunate.

I got to go to CES consumer electronic show this year.

Um, Caterpillar was a keynote.

Our CEO was doing a keynote speech and we, we demonstrated our AI assist.

We, uh, had not at CES, but then con expo was in Las Vegas in later in the year, a couple months later.

and demonstrated or had a bunch of other products out there.

We had a live demo.