Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world, has been a destination I’ve yearned to see for many years.  I can tell you now that it really is unlike any other place in the world and one that you must experience to truly appreciate the enormity of its dominating structures, super casinos, vast shopping malls and the nocturnal way of life for many of its population.

I stayed at the Mandalay Bay adjacent to Las Vegas airport at the end of the ’strip’. As with everything in Vegas the hotel was huge. It took ten minutes to walk from the hotel suite through the casino, past numerous restaurants, through a shopping mall to the conference centre without stopping to get the ID badge I needed for the consumer electronics show, the primary reason for my trip.

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CES Las Vegas, the largest consumer electronics show in the world opened its doors today to present the masses with a huge array of new and exciting products and advancements in technology.

Although many of the people I spoke to today commented on how small the show was this year in comparison to previous years, it was my first, so I was pretty impressed at the scale and grandeur of the event having only been to smaller affairs in the UK.

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I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy new year! I hope 2009 brings you good health, prosperity and happiness!