Heading to Las Vegas for a techno-circus

I'm off to Las Vegas today to cover the annual Consumer Electronics Show, or the Super Bowl of technology. It's my fourth time covering the show but it'll be a little different this year, as I'll be seeing it fully through "sex, bombs & burgers" tinted glasses, so to speak.

I'll be posting my adventures and observations here, and of course providing exhaustive (or should I say exhausting) coverage over on CBC over the next week or so. Here's our preview story and here's our CES page.

I'll also be hanging out with some porn stars and checking out the Adult Entertainment Expo, which not-coincidentally runs concurrently to CES, when I get some spare time. Check back for photos, interviews and maybe even a video or two.

In the meantime, check out a story I wrote from CES two years ago about the robot car designed by Carnegie Mellon engineers and General Motors. The car, named "the Boss," is one of the best examples of military-consumer technology there's been. It was designed for a contest sponsored by DARPA, but GM is already incorporating certain aspects of it into their consumer vehicles.

One of my most amazing experiences as a journalist was going for a ride in the thing. Sitting in the passenger seat while the steering wheel turned itself was just unreal, very reminiscent of Knight Rider:



Fingers crossed that I'll get to experience something equally mind-blowing this year.