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It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show, where it's all about you and that

wallet of yours. I want you to learn ideas to me so that you can save more and spend less,

and don't let anyone ever rip you off. Clark.com's our main website, ClarkDeals.com, where you go to save

money each and every day. I'm broadcasting for the seventh consecutive year at CES, which

formerly was known as the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It's the world's largest trade

show each year and the crowds are intense. The number of people that are here at CES is estimated

at a base of 170,000, although I got to tell you, it seems like it's 1.7 million when you're here,

because there are times that you can't even see the carpet in any of the exhibit halls,

because there are so many people. There are thousands upon thousands of companies,

typically around 4,000 companies displaying, and people are here from more than 150 different

countries around the world. It's funny watching the Tower of Babel of the security people trying to

direct people who don't speak English at all that are here, but they do speak tech. You may wonder,

why do I come year after year to this? Why? Seven years running have I been at CES? Because

over and over again, I've seen things that brilliant, brilliant men and women have created

that ultimately come into our lives. I remember years ago seeing the first demonstrations

of various television technologies that now you can walk into Best Buy or Costco or wherever,

and you see those TVs on display that were just absolutely mesmerizing when I saw them on the

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