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CES is Winding Down: It's Getting Lonely Around Here

Today's the last day of CES, and a good chunk of the press has left. That means the people who man the booths are left with no one to talk to except each other, making each desolate booth a sad tableau of loneliness. Don't worry, PR people. It's almost over.

1:49 PM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Adam Frucci
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  • Not knowing much about the challenges of covering such a thing, I'm glad it's over. The first few days we get blogging reports -- sometimes minute-by-minute -- of the keynotes, the big screens and the nifty cameras, Art Lebedev made a pretty big slpash. Then the coverage seems to tire of talking about the big screens and cameras and focuses more on the gimmicky stuff. Then we fall into a period where it's all about the little presenters and flash drives and somebody's new high-capacity SD card -- it's in this phase that the booth babes get coverage. Then we are where we are right now... a kind of sad, sweat-stained denoument, like inspecting your house on the morning after a really great party. I can't imagine what today must be like for Giz writers and editors -- do you just spend time at the bar, or stalking every drugstore in the viscinity for gel-cushion insoles? Pedicures, maybe?

  • What, no tumbleweeds?

  • Finally! Lets get on to Macworld!

  • Vonage has a booth??!?! I thought they were dead already...

  • Sounds like it's time for Gizmodo to head over to the Adult Video Convention in Vegas today.

  • Don't forget Frucci's breakdown. That may have gotten more hits than any other coverage. Watch out Gizmodo, I smell coup d'etat, or perhaps Frucci will break off and start his own blog. "Whining about technology."

    Sorry, i just feel he deserves more shit for letting his conscience come before his duty.

    Booth babes forever!! You'll be sad when robots replace booth babes.

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