after two years, the world's biggest tech event is back
and it is in person. More than 2000 companies are go
to join this year's consumer electronics show si es for
insiders in las Vegas showcasing some of the world's
hottest new innovations. Tonight we're taking you
inside the focus of our series. Tomorrow's tech com
to you straight from the epicenter of it all. Newsy
tech correspondent, Jason Bellini is there tonight,
Jason, I know you've been snooping around your lucky
dog what has stood out to you so far Hey, chance. So
I've gotten a little bit of a sneak peek of some of
what's going to be here and there's still a lot of
construction going on right now. It looks like they're
going to be working all night, getting this the floor
ready for tomorrow. But one thing I've got to see that
was really cool was some electric scooters that you can
use on the snow. I saw some um, oh and tomorrow I'm
gonna get to see a vehicle that sort of jetsons li
that. You'll be able to fly in ideally. Um, but I want
to give you a sort of a look at what we've seen so far.
This is something new for the consumer electronics sh
in Vegas this year. The pretty sci fi techie experience
of going through a mile long tunnel or a Tesla takes
you from the old exhibit hall still being used to the
new one. The vast environs of the new, nearly quarter
million square feet of floor space is still under wraps.
But autonomous cars and artificial intelligence inf
smart home products technologies that are supplanti
mega TVs as the hot tech to check out. The biggest text
show on the planet will be considerably smaller th
year in terms of people by late december si es
estimated between 50 and 70,000 attendees would be here
down for more than 100 and 70,000, 2 years ago. CS
skipped holding the event in person last year due to
Covid and this year some of the biggest companies
including google Gm, Microsoft, twitter and meta
facebook's parent company pulle out due to concerns
over al macron but no doubt there will be no shortage
of interesting things to see. This is a very James bond
at a preview event on Tuesday, I checked out an
electric scooter for the snow. You can go pretty fast
on this, how fast you can go up to 26 miles, 26 MPH and
it is a battery powered so how long does the battery
last between 1 to 3 hours and also had demoed on my
person. Alright, let's do this a color custom tattoo
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lifer here now you better settle right in I guess. Hey
Jason, so two years is forever in Silicon Valley and s
I'm sure tons of these people are chomping at the bit
to get out there and there's some new categories is
understanding this year. What are those That's right.
So non fungible tokens, there's going to be examples of
that that we're gonna actually have space and I've been
here for coming to this for a number of years. Never
seen really space on display, autonomous vehicles ar
going to be a really big thing and other autonomous
moving contraptions um, that hopefully be able to try
out right around um, those I think are some of the
really big ones. Oh and one other I would mention is
food cooking technology. What exactly is that Well
we'll find out tomorrow. I would love to know that I
saw a cute little shiba inu stuffed animal looked like
right there and then an orange. Okay, so you're gonna
get to get your hands on everything tomorrow in the
meantime. You mentioned it I think you said two years
ago, 170,000 people were there now it's something like
70,000 people, but I still saw everyone I know you're
wearing masks, but there are a lot of people in that
building. COVID cases are going up around the country
right now are extra precautions being taken. Extra
precautions are certainly being taken, you're not
allowed into CS this year unless you've been vaccina
for sure. And they're also handing out rapid test to
everyone who comes here, encouraging people to test
themselves before and after this event. And they are
also cutting this event short by one day, it was
supposed to end on saturday, it's gonna end end of the
day on friday, but they're encouraging, not encour
they're saying you've got to wear masks everywhere
because this is a giant vest indoor space, but you know
still gonna be a lot of people here over the next
several days.