The New York Times > Technology > For the Digerati, the Only Place to Be: "Rex Wong has picked the music and hired the runway models. Starting Thursday, they will strut his latest design: pink portable video players with matching pink faux-crocodile cases.
Like many designers planning to show spring lines here, Mr. Wong, the president of a new electronics company called X2, is hoping to impress some of the most discerning techno-fashionistas: the 130,000 people expected at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which holds a preview on Wednesday for the news media and formally opens the next day. The show, Mr. Wong said, 'is the one place where everybody is there - the media and the buyers from all over the world.'
As the runways of Paris and Milan are to the garment trade, so will the hallways of the Las Vegas Convention Center be this week to the world of digital gadgetry. All things audio and video have become so woven into the fabric of everyday American life and commerce that the show, once a sleepy merchant fair for TV and stereo dealers, is now, in terms of exhibit space, the nation's largest annual trade show. It has held that position since 2001, according to Tradeshow Week, a trade publication."
By SAUL HANSELL
The New York Times
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