One of the first important investing events of the year is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas.
CES is a dream world for tech fanatics. For investors and traders, it's a quick way to find growth in public companies.
One of the first important investing events of the year is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas.
CES is a dream world for tech fanatics. For investors and traders, it's a quick way to find growth in public companies.
If we had to describe all of the amazing new products and technologies we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 last week, we'd need 10 of these columns.
Amid all the hype this year, the hugest buzz was about ultra-high-definition TV (UHDTV).
The focus on televisions isn't surprising for a consumer electronics-focused trade show filled with buyers from major online and big-box retailers. But there's also a reason for tech investors like you folks to pay attention as well.
According to the Consumer Electronics Association trade group, Americans will be buying 1.43 million UHDTV sets, or roughly 5% of televisions sold nationally, in 2016. That's a 60-fold increase from 2013, when UHDTVs debuted.
And, of course, there are ways for all of us to profit on all those UHDTVs our fellow Americans will be buying.
So, let's hit the floor of CES 2015 to find them...
CES 2015: From the latest version of the Occulus Rift to sneakers with games built into them, Michael Robinson is taking it all in at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Per usual, he's reporting back with innovative investing ideas about the innovations he's seen. He's found the odd and the unexpected.
And the potentially hugely profitable...
With 2 million square feet of exhibit space, 161,000 attendees and 20,000 product announcements, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the one of the hottest trade shows on Earth.
But the impact goes well beyond the numbers.
CES is also the single best place to gauge the state of Silicon Valley innovation.
And the 2015 edition of CES, scheduled for Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 in Las Vegas, will highlight some of the key tech trends we've been telling you a lot about over the past several years.
And the watchword will be "connectivity," says Accenture Managing Director John Curran, who runs the consulting firm's Communications, Media and Technology Group.
"The range of high-tech devices is exploding, and so is the amount of connectivity and networking between them," Curran wrote in a recent issue of Forbes magazine. "All this will be evident at CES like never before. We expect to see the 'always connected' consumer become more pervasive than ever as connected devices and services become the norm in new, emerging and traditional product categories."
According to Curran and other experts, the key tech topics at CES 2015 will include:
We've been talking with you about all three of these.
And the fact that they're going to be major points of focus at CES means they've emerged as major profit opportunities - and are worth revisiting again.
This year's CES certainly had its share of memorable moments. It started with Director Michael Bey's embarrassing stage walk-off in the middle of a presentation. And then there was that stunt by T-Mobile CEO John Legere.
This is the stuff that everybody's been talking about...
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