So another CES has come and gone, and it was surprisingly similar to last year’s CES. It has also resulted in what is easily the longest post I’ve ever written for this blog by far. The most important thing I learned from my adventure this year had nothing to do with CES, but rather that my beloved Canon Digital Rebel DSLR camera has finally given up the ghost. It behaved normally, but the pictures were terrible and now I think it is time to put it out to pasture. I’ve had it since 2001, which in technology time is, what, 1300 years? It even uses the obsolete compact flash storage, so it had a very good run.

My poor Canon

With that said, there was a ton of stuff to see, as usual. More than you could hope to see in one day, I was there for two and wasn’t able to see all I had planned, and there is far more stuff than you’ll ever see actually out in the consumer market in the future. There was the personal fitness section, the smartwatch section, the pure electronics section where I spent a lot of time and companies were showcasing their circuits, transistors, memory tech, etc., the audio dealers, the automotive section, the gaming section, countless others, and of course the main show floor. There were also lines everywhere. Lines to try the Oculus Rift. Lines to try the Sennheiser headphones (which are the best headphones on earth). Lines to try the various home theater setups, lines to try drones, lines everywhere. I don’t wait in lines at CES, so I had to observe from afar. In this post I’ll try to cover some of what you’d expect, as well as some of the more unusual things I saw while I wandered for hours around the various expos.