With the whirlwind holiday season behind us, the PCMag team is heading back to Las Vegas in the coming days for CES 2025. The show floor proper opens on Tues., Jan. 7, but you can expect to see plenty of crucial announcements in the days leading up to it. The show has evolved over the years, with many large vendors preferring their own standalone launch events to the traditional flashy trade show press conference. But the major players are still trekking to the desert. CES 2024 attracted 135,000+ attendees and more than 4,300 exhibitors, including 60% of Fortune 500 companies, according to the Consumer Technology Association, which hosts CES.
Our experts have been wandering the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center every January for decades; here’s…