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CES 2018. I'm your host Victor I'm back and joining me is Mike Wirthley.

Hello again everybody I am not at C. I'm at my desk, but you should probably expect that by now.

And I know you're grateful that you're not here.

Yeah, the the CES environment is just not for me. It's the crowds I've done my bit in overcrowded environments and I'm done with that so

It's it's an astoundingingly well attended show.

There are a huge number of people here.

The show spraws across three convention floor halls, at least two hotel convention centers, and a third one for press events not to mention that there are tons of companies that have a smattering of sweets all up and down the Las Vegas strip and so if you're trying to cover this event it's very difficult to see everything

It's very difficult to see the things you want to see just because you lose two hours trying to get anywhere other than the hall that you're actually in.

And a non-sarcastic shout out to Nevada Power for getting the power back on yesterday

after about an hour and a half outage on the main floor.

Yeah, North and Central central halls lost power yesterday for a good bit and I

have already begun to receive PR pitches telling me that we need to switch to their power banks.

And amusingly, amusingly, one of the power banks product name is Cole.

So we need to switch to Cole in order to get the power back.

Oh boy, yeah, there was a social media, a bunch of brands took to social media

to take advantage of the blackout yesterday, like Dell with the XPS 13 saying

it's lit after many hours of darkness and other assorted little tidbits like that.

It was interesting to watch it develop on social media as it happened.

And every smart like bulb company gets a tag in there and it's fun, yeah.

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