CES is, and I cannot stress this enough, the absolute worst. 

The annual Las Vegas-based tech fest is notorious for wearing attendees down to the bone. You arrange days full of appointments only to discover you're rushing back and forth between casinos that can be miles apart. In January, Sin City is super chilly, and thousands of attendees flying in from around the world means this is in effect a confab of the northern hemisphere's most unusual cold and flu viruses. And yet, everyone keeps wanting to shake hands. Never in my life, outside a hospital, have I heard so much coughing in corridors.  Read more...