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I'm getting a little behind*. It's March and until now I've ignored two January highlights of trade-show season: CES and NAMM, which respectively and chronologically are the Consumer Electronics Show and the National Association of Music Merchants. Or used to be until they followed AARP and ARRL and many others into acronymic oblivion. And I'd better get cracking because IWCE is coming up! Anyone care to guess? Yes, "International Wireless Communications Expo." I've done enough CES and NAMM "reviews" that I feel I can combine this January's here**. Unless I have too many fun photos. We'll find out soon enough.
We Just Found Out
I take pictures at trade shows for two reasons: business and entertainment. The business photos are usually of a person with convention badge clearly visible standing by a product or a service that might be useful. The entertainment photos often tickle my sense of irony, and fall into categories of bizarrely named companies, product misfeatures, almost certain failures, and why-didn't-I-think-of-thats. Eschewing comments on most, 1'll let you decide the categories. Among the first photos I took at CES this year was of an "electric ridable suitcase" with a touted 45km range. Why not?
CES 2026 |
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| Shades of Isaac Asimov |
Robot Dog |
Suitcase? Delivery vehicle? |
Cotton Candy Machine Happiness |
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| All the cops... |
Hall of iPhone Cases |
Robot Army |
Velodyne Threefer - great logo and concept, and a "Future Of" sighting |
| Attempting to be a better person, and recognizing that any sign or company name in Chinese, Korean, or almost any other language I create would be doomed to ridicule, I refrain from posting, e.g., a photo of the Shenzhen Holywud Technology Co. booth and similar in the CES target-rich environment. |
NAMM 2026 |
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| More Shades of Isaac Asimov |
I could learn something from them. |
New app for our official fruit |
My swag heroes |
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| Melissa Mollard Sells Batons. Only! |
So many potential musician jokes! |
Third Man Telegraph Pedal |
Omnipressor T-Shirt. |
Clockwise*** from upper left.
- Time Kettle and Eternal are key concepts in Asimov's End of Eternity. It's one of my favorite SF books.
- I've learned to make Grilled Cheese sandwiches. Bread, English Muffins, and other substrates all work!
- The Banana is our household official fruit. It's even radioactive!
- RCF? Do I really have to 'splain?
- The unassuming Mollard Baton booth sells conductor batons. Wood! Carbon Fiber! They're easy-waving batons. That's it. That's their business.
- How often does one "need" a singer? "Want" is several other stories.
- Eventide makes a "Knife Drop" pedal in partnership with Third Man, hence my scrutiny of their stand. Who knew they played the telegraph, too?
- Finally, on the 50th anniversary of the Omnipressor, it gets its own shirt.
I have plenty more photos, but IWCE awaits.
* No wise-guy comments about steatopygy, please.
** 2025, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2019-NAMM, and, for better and worse, more.
*** Does "clockwise" still mean anything to young digital natives?
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NOTE:
I always spell-check my blogs, Never has spell-check been more frustrated than today. So many "corrections" yet no satisfaction for it at all.
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