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If you’re a techie or a geek you will probably have noticed that the 2018 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show was held in Las Vegas last week, although increasingly it’s with a sense of diminishing returns. The show, which has been running in some form since 1967 and annually since the early 2000’s has come to dominate the consumer electronics industry, and certainly, in the ten years from 2005 to 2015, CES was the event for manufacturers: that one they couldn’t afford to miss. For consumers, it was something to look forward to in January: a way to get over those post Xmas Blues. As I said, CES has dominated the consumer tech world for the last ten years. The last two years have show a marked decline in the show’s importance. Those were years when a smart hairbrush and an electric car that still hasn’t made it into production were part of the breakout news of the year. This year continues the trend - Not a lot of big news from the show this year. It does seem that unless the show’s organisers can real