At the show last week, Wired.com’s video team interviewed four people for their unusual perspectives on the enormous electronics tradeshow, which brought an estimated 140,000 people to Las Vegas for a weeklong download of gadget news and wheeling and dealing.
Above, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens points out just how wasteful a tradeshow like CES is. Not once, he says, did he see a recycling bin, and trade-show goons even made him give up the water bottle he was trying to keep for reuse.
Besides conspicuous consumption and waste, another aspect of CES is the booth babes: Attractive, scantily clad women hired to hawk a company’s wares. The Atlantic‘s Alexis Madrigal looked into the business and found that, yes, there are companies you can call if you want, say, to hire a dozen Penthouse models who can talk about gadgets.
