LAS VEGAS — So, you may have heard that the International Consumer Electronics Show is the world's biggest consumer electronics trade show. It's also the biggest U.S. indoor trade show. And, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, it features:
More than 2,400 exhibitors, some with small booths and others with house-size structures to show off products, meet with partners and otherwise catch people's attention. The first show, in 1967 in New York City, had 200.
More than 130,000 attendees, a far cry from the 17,500 at the first show.
Coverage by more than 4,000 news media, more than attend the Super Bowl and Wimbledon combined.
Officials and technology executives from more than 110 countries.
About 250 buses to move people around from the Las Vegas Convention Center to various hotels.
More than 100,000 yards of carpet used on about 1.5 million net square feet of floor space, which is equivalent to 26 football fields.
About 13 million pounds of freight that moves in, equivalent of more than 4,300 taxis.
CES is the place where many of today's common tech toys made their debut, including the videocassette recorder, 1970; the laserdisc player, 1974; the camcorder, 1981; the compact disc player, 1981; the mini-disc, 1993; digital satellite system, 1994; high-definition TV, 1998; the hard-disc VCR, 1999; satellite radio, 2000; plasma TV, 2001; and the Xbox, 2001.