CES Unveiled Get Las Vegas’ Biggest Trade Show Off And Running Sunday; CES Displays Start Tuesday


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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — They’re dreamers and capitalists and entrepreneurs with tech products they’re hoping you will want and need.

There’s Earflo out of the San Francisco area marketing a product to relieve earaches for kids. Nicholas Routhier has an iPhone screen that turns photos into 3-D images. Other companies promise fertility, boast products that fight cancer and sell parts that turn human-powered bicycles into electric two-wheelers.

CES Unveiled on Sunday was a good media event for startups, which pay $800 to be among the several hundred exhibitors who get to have one-on-one time with media members during the first day of CES’ two-day Media Days at Mandalay Bay.




These tech exhibitors will be showing their products starting Tuesday, but the CES Unveiled three-hour event is a great forum for smaller companies to carve out media time because the tire kickers and lookie looks during the CES show during the week sometimes hog time and keeps the exhibitors from talking to media and getting publicity.

There looked to be several hundred exhibitors, including many who will be putting their startup products on display at the “Eureka Park” section at the Venetian Expo.

LVSportsBiz.com likes to focus on mobility products, which included several items being put into action Sunday at the CES Unveiled.




CES starts Tuesday, with about 140,000 people set to jam convention centers and the Strip corridor this week.


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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.