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...over the years, as personal electronics became more affordable and ubiquitous, CES mushroomed. It offered a dramatic venue for the debut of some of the most important consumer technologies of the past 40 years, including the VCR (1970), cheap digital watches (1976) and affordable, albeit primitive, home computers (1978). 1981 was a banner year, with the debuts of the camcorder and the CD player. By 1973, CES had become so popular, organizers decided to put it on twice a year. It was held in Chicago from 1972 until 1977, when it started alternating shows between the Windy City...
...This decade has definitely seen some of the most memorable CES events in history. The Microsoft Xbox and the plasma TV were both unveiled in 2001. High-definition TV and Blu-Ray came along by 2003. When Bill Gates was demonstrating Windows Media Center at the 2005 CES, his on-stage computer crashed mid-demo; a few minutes later, a Microsoft employee got the "blue screen of death" when demonstrating another application. Chuckles and schadenfreude abounded...
...When techies think about CES, they can't help but think of Gates. The former Microsoft CEO was the keynote speaker at 10 CES events, including in 2008, when he announced his retirement from day-to-day operations at the company. A video parody he screened of his last day at Microsoft featured cameos by Jon Stewart, Barack Obama and George Clooney, among others. (Apple's Macworld conference, typically hosted by Steve Jobs, takes place around the same time every year as CES.) Another highlight of the 2008 CES - at least for TV watchers - was a surprise appearance...
...CES organizers are obviously confident that cutting-edge consumer electronics will become even more ubiquitous in American life - they have Las Vegas dates booked through 2022. (Read "What's Ailing Steve Jobs...
...Stringer, who as usual gave as good as he got, and who had to know what he was doing when he asked Hanks to speak at CES, pronounced the actor's antics "generally speaking, a plus, I think." Then he added, "I took a risk. It failed. But we'll still be friends. At least until after the movie...