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CES 2021 Launches This Week in All-Digital or Virtual Format

January 13, 2021 by Ted Leave a Comment

CES 2021 attendee dashboard

See What Tech Exhibitors are Talking About

The Consumer Electronics Show – CES 2021 – opened this week with great fanfare, but no long taxi lines, no crowded booths, and no glitzy hands-on displays. That’s because this year, CES is virtual – or as the CTA (Consumer Technology Association) likes to put it, it is “all digital.”

Can they pull it off?

See more on CES 2021…

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Filed Under: Associations, Consumer Trends, Shows & Events, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: 5G, artificial intelligence, CEDIA Expo Virtual, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Consumer Technology Association, CTA

Forbes Notes Enthusiastic CES 2020 Crowd Amazed by a ‘Smart’ Potato

January 15, 2020 by Ted 1 Comment

Is This the Next Big Thing?

neuraspud 'smart' potato
NeuraSpud, Booth #53367 Eureka Park, CES 2020 [Photo: Forbes, Pete Pachal]

Who says the mainstream media has abandoned CES? No less than the venerable Forbes.com ran a feature story that noted an enthusiastic crowd gathered around a booth offering a dynamic presentation on an amazing new technology…a ‘smart’ potato. No, this is NOT a spoof by The Onion – it is real. Yes, the booth and young man promoting the smart potato was a stunt…but the article from Forbes about it is real.

Why Forbes featured a ‘smart potato’…

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Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Products, Shows & Events, Tech Trends Tagged With: CES 2020, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, Forbes, NeuraSpud, Nicholas Baldeck, smart devices

CES 2020 – Just What Exactly is CES Anymore?

January 8, 2020 by Ted 15 Comments

photo from the WWE website; WWE is a new CES 2020 exhibitor
Buyer/seller negotiations on the CES floor are getting pretty tough! Image is from the WWE, a new exhibitor at CES this year

For many, many years the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – an exposition hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – was a huge part of the technology industry. In many ways, it was virtually the embodiment of tech – you HAD to go there to discover the latest products that were being shown to buyers so they could get their orders placed in time for the prime selling season starting in the fall of that year.

CES 2020 – what has become of CES, our beloved technology show?…

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Filed Under: Associations, Brands, Management, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Strategy, Tech Trends, Technology Tagged With: Consumer Electronics Show, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, Gary Shapiro

CTA: Tariffs Mean Consumer Pain, Business Uncertainty

September 5, 2019 by Ted 1 Comment

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is pulling no punches when it comes to the latest revised tariff schedule being implemented by the Trump administration. The recently revised tariff schedule, which started a new round of tariffs just days ago on September 1st, with a second round scheduled to hit on December 15th means pain and uncertainty moving forward according to the CTA.

See what the CTA had to say about tariffs…

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Filed Under: Associations, Economic Trends, Industry Trends, News Tagged With: Consumer Technology Association, CTA, Gary Shapiro, tariffs

Top Tech Stories From CES 2019

January 10, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

CES graphic

CES 2019 is over the hump, closing tomorrow. But the top tech stories are pretty big and pretty clearly defined – and will be quite exciting, when they appear…someday. The top tech stories include – LG’s rollable, bendable OLED displays, Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G – the next generation wireless tech, 8K TVs, autonomous vehicles – both car and motorcycle, and Apple & Siri strike back.

See what’s hot at CES 2019 in Vegas, baby…

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Filed Under: Associations, Brands, Distributors, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Products, Retailers, Sales Reps, Shows & Events, Tech Trends Tagged With: CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, Gary Shapiro, LG, Micro Led, OLED, QLED, Sony

CES 2019 – How Media is Reacting

January 9, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

CES logo w/CTAAs usual, 2019 kicks off in January with CES 2019 as the first event of the year. CES is the largest show in technology, showing a wide array of new technology products both real and unreal. An event that has steadily declined in significance for those of us in custom and commercial integration – in the past, CES illuminated brightly what was to come in tech that year. Now? Not so much…

See more on the hubbub surrounding CES 2019… [Read more…] about CES 2019 – How Media is Reacting

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, News, Shows & Events, Tech Trends Tagged With: Breadbot, CES, Consumer Electronics Show, controversy, CTA, Gary Shapiro, Lora DiCarlo, Procter & Gamble, Soma Innofit

Deck the Halls…With Tech

November 29, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Sound Pop on back of phone
A Bluetooth speaker

A new survey conducted by the CTA just this past September shows what tech products consumers are planning to buy to give as gifts for under the Christmas tree this year. And yes, we find the order of priority of some of these items very interesting.

Check out this most current survey…just in time for the holidays… [Read more…] about Deck the Halls…With Tech

Filed Under: Statistics, Survey, Tech Trends Tagged With: CTA, holiday sales

CES 2018 to Feature Smart City Technology

June 1, 2017 by Ted Leave a Comment

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced this week that at its upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2018 in Las Vegas, there will be a new area of focus on Smart City technologies. The group plans both a dedicated display space featuring the technologies of Smart Cities, as well as a full schedule of related conference programming.

See more on this new area of technology at CES… [Read more…] about CES 2018 to Feature Smart City Technology

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Marketing, News, Research, Shows & Events, Statistics, Tech Trends Tagged With: AI, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, data analyitcs, IoT, sensors, smart home

CTA Predicts Record Black Friday Week

November 17, 2016 by Ted Leave a Comment

Nearly 50% of theĀ Entire U.S. Population Will Buy Tech Then

CTA logoIn a very bullish release from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the organization predicts that nearly half of all consumers in America (47%) will buy a technology product during Black Friday week, based on a newly completed survey. That result means 116 million Americans will buy tech – ten percent more than last year.

See more on this CTA survey, including what consumers will buy… [Read more…] about CTA Predicts Record Black Friday Week

Filed Under: Associations, Consumer Trends, News, Research, Statistics, Survey Tagged With: consumer, Consumer Technology Association, CTA

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