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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff Works dot Com. Hi, everybody,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Pilett. I'm

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Speaker 1: an editor here at How Stuff Works. Sitting next to

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Speaker 1: me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland. I'm so tired.

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Speaker 1: That's probably because it wasn't long ago that you got

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Speaker 1: back from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. That

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Speaker 1: is true, it was not long ago at all, and

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Speaker 1: I'm still feeling it, to tell you the truth. See

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Speaker 1: last year I was feeling it too, but you know,

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Speaker 1: this year I had other obligations and couldn't make the show,

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Speaker 1: So Jonathan went by himself, and I'm sure he loved

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Speaker 1: being able to run across all those different show floors. Right. So,

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Speaker 1: the the Consumer Like DRAVE showcases this big industry showcase

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Speaker 1: in which all these uh these different manufacturers and companies

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Speaker 1: for the next year, hoping to get buyers interested in it,

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Speaker 1: hoping to get a lot of press coverage. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: just this big, big convention and when I say big,

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Speaker 1: square feet, Yeah, quite a few and all the space

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Speaker 1: right and it takes place in in the Uh. There's

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Speaker 1: there's the Renaissance Hotel, there's the Las Vegas Hilton. And

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Speaker 1: then there's some hotels, you know, some some exhibitors. They

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Speaker 1: it's a big show. And one of the big stories,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you were thinking about talking about this,

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Speaker 1: I had been wondering that myself. If you are a

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Speaker 1: two thousand nine predictions that the trade shows would start

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Speaker 1: just that you actually had some space to breathe once

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Speaker 1: So Panasonic had this booth that spanned the entire width

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