CES Day 2, Over and Out! Bring Me Back To The Masses...

I am completely burned out.

It's now Day 3 of CES and I'm still only writing about Day 2 because frankly, I really can't take any more of the floors, the peddling, and the crowds. Again, seeing a lot, but not seeing a lot, that's the problem...

As the CES experiences comes to a close for me, I continue to reflect upon things I stumble upon while exploring. It seems that CES is probably the only time where you'll find a group of guys staring harder at a set of CPU processors than the lovely booth girl that's standing beside it. In fact, if a booth girl is in the way, it only makes the guys stare harder because they think they can develop X-ray vision that will see right through her, and onto the merchandise. Of course, there's always exceptions to this rule.

Like the fact that the AVN Adult Expo takes place at the EXACT SAME TIME as the CES, and they co-mingle in particular at the Sands Expo Center where the Adult Expo is being hosted. Ah, where YouTube meets Boob-Tube, and "is that a harddrive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" takes on SOOOOOO many different meanings. Suffice it to say, there were a lot of guys that "accidentally" stumbled into the wrong conventions. But hey, if anyone can make sense of glass dildos having anything to do with new OLED sceens, it's these geeks.

So is the dilemma of the photographers working both events. Do I take pictures of the semi-nude models dressed as porn angels ascending a flight of stairs, or should I get that shot of the new Sony Cybershot camera? Or, can I do both? And talk about feminism -- There were probably more women taking pictures of pornstars than their male colleagues. I don't know if that's progressive, but it seems like everyone's in on the joke, all genders included.

And of course, my favorite distraction was playing the game "Pornstar, or not a Pornstar." Some women you see wearing nothing but a thong, pasties, and clear platform heels? Probably in Adult entertainment. Of course, it's also a business conference, so the nerdy-looking female in the powersuit is probably trying to sell GangBang Pussies 7 onto the masses. So as vision blurs, so do the lines of what is business and pleasure.

So, what can we surmise from all this convention madness? Technology continues to get better, but computer batteries are still crappy. 3D TVs are on the horizon, but they're gonna be hella expensive. Robots may not rule the world, but by middle 2009 they will mow your lawn automatically. Apparently, you can have too many video screens in a car -- I say putting one right on the gas cap a bit over the line. And as always, sex sells everything. Sex sells itself. Sex is in the microchips and on a woman's hips.

And like every year, we're gonna want to have this stuff and not want it all at the same time... ;)