CES2010: the evolution of the CES experience

going to CES is very different these days. today, all the cool stuff is leaked days in advance on engadget, etc. i mean come on, who can keep up with the cnet and engadget army - they know everything about everything, immediately. so we sit in our las vegas hotel room and surf the web, reading up on all the cool stuff and make plans to search it out at the show. kinda kills the joy of going to ces. back in the day, i really enjoyed the serendipitous nature of ces, where my posse and i would discover cool stuff that much of the world did not know about, and we'd discuss and debate it endlessly over the crap cafeteria lunches at the show. did you see so-and-so's such-and-such? was it cool? was it crap? why? what are all these new terms and acronyms? it all used to culminate in "geek dinner" that i would schedule for friday or saturday night at Quark's in the Las Vegas Hilton. then we'd go invade an arcade and play the daytona racing games. But now Quark's is gone, few of my friends come to CES anymore, maybe because of the big dry spell at CES over the last 5-6 years after the big wave of HDTV crested. CES may be getting more interesting with 3D TV (don't all new technologies seem ridiculous at first?) and perhaps other things ??? we shall see if there is anything really exciting that will make us say "we've got to come back to CES next year to witness the unfolding revolution!"