CES 2009

INTRODUCTION

This year I attended the CES show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Now, unfortunately, with confusion and really not knowing what to do and how to go about it, it kept me from actually visiting the booths inside the Las Vegas Convention Center itself. This was my very first CES so, as always, there's bound to be some problems. But I did get a chance to meet up with some companies that had displays throughout the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. These companies felt it was a better idea to set up their displays at their hotel rooms so they could get a better one on one with reviewers, editors, and other related sites/businesses in the computer industry. I met with five companies on a one on one interview.

I arrived in Las Vegas on the 7th of January 2009, around 9pm or so. I went straight to my hotel room I had reserved in Henderson, Nevada at the Sunset Hotel and Casino. Yes, its a bit of a distance from Las Vegas, but that's what I was aiming for, to get far enough away from the madness of Las Vegas, but close enough I wouldn't have a such a commute. I woke up the following morning around 8:30am Pacific Standard Time, and headed straight to the Las Vegas Convention Center. After a couple of hours on trying to get in the CES exhibition and having zero luck with that, I remembered I had to make a couple of phone calls anyway. So I walked back to my car and found my piece of paper with phone numbers on it and made a call to Tania who is the PR person for Razer. Long story short, Tania was able to get me into where Razer had an booth. Not only that, Tonia was able to get me to talk to the Razer Guy himself. So I had an interview with the "Razer Guy".

After completing my interview with the "Razor Guy", I wandered around the South building of the Convention center, only to be met by one of the security guys shortly after my meeting with Razer. He was just doing his job and since I did not have a CES badge, I had to go. He was very polite with me. Upon reaching my car I started making calls to Angela and to the Mushkin Man. I wanted to make sure that if they had a booth inside the Convention Center, that I would need to be vouched for so I could to go and see them. Angela told me they were setting up their booth in their hotel Room at the Venetian, and Brian told me the same that they were setting their booth up at the Venetian as well. Well, I left the Convention Center scene quickly and headed straight for my hotel room to get ready for Cooler Masters party/booth at their hotel room at the Palms, and to go straight from Cooler Master's party over to the Bellagio where OCZ was hosting their get together. Cooler Master's party was at 7pm, and OCZ was hosting their get together at 9pm on the same day of the 8th of January.