286 booths , and nary an iPhone in sight . In fact , a mess of the gadgets on display here were first released in 2007 . Welcome toCAN InfoTech : the CES of Nepal .
BoingBoing’sphoto tourof the January conference , held in a country with a near-50 % unemployment rate and a per - capita GDP of $ 1,200 , paints a ikon of a sorting of proto - CES , in which Apple is a unexampled and novel brand , many of the attendees do n’t have fluid telephone , and galvanizing generator are a prime attraction .
I ’m not certain why , but I assumed a trade show like this would be inflected with a different feeling . Instead of complaining aboutebook proofreader overloador a crowded craft floor , attender would glimpse a technological future that a lot of the world last in , and that they too could one day enjoy . But no : A trade show is a trade show , all the way down the economic scale . It ’s a way for innovators and hucksters alike to get the word out , for better or for bad , about the thing they ’re trying to sell right then .
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steer over to the source for the full picture hardening , because it ’s utterly entrancing , from the 2008 - vintage Sony catalog on display to the cellophane - wrapped display laptops . I ’ll never plain about CES again . ( This is a lie . ) [ BoingBoing ]
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