The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas every January is usually techie heaven, but this year the show is crawling with marketers looking for the latest digital innovations.  And they're not just CMOs from the hi-tech sector either. 

Among the 140 000 people looking the lastest, greatest, neatest and coolest personal technology gadgets are CMO's from Fortune 500 companies from all sectors. Some of the gadgets, digital media and tech wizardry seen at the show will not be commercially available for several years, if at all.  But the increasing importance of this technology in consumers' lives, and how digital media impacts and shifts consumer behavior, is of paramount importance to marketers - hence their presence at CES.

Many of these CMOs are walking the floor with their agencies, looking for new ideas that will impact their marketing strategy in the future. And they'll be doing a lot of walking.  The show floor is the size of 35 football fields! That's a lot of new ideas and gadgets to take in.

If you're not going to Vegas this week, keep your eye on the online reports about CES.   Here are just a few that were featured at the innovations event on Saturday night.

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See Also

• CES Special Report
  All the news and gossip from this year's consumer electronics extravaganza in Las Vegas