With the completion of a $600 million convention center renovation next month, Las Vegas should close in on a record year for conventions and trade shows.
Conventions
When it opens in January for CES, the Las Vegas Convention Center will be the second largest in the country behind Chicago’s McCormick Center by indoor exhibit space.
Las Vegas’ tourism arm approved spending over $7 million to go toward hosting WrestleMania next year and buying tickets to this year’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix.
If you’re riding in the Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop and notice your driver isn’t steering the vehicle, that’s because, in some cases, they aren’t.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is set to spend over $7 million related to hosting the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix and WWE’s WrestleMania.
Even veteran bartenders at times dread the mojito — all that mint to muddle, lime juice to squeeze.
Let’s face it; not all of us have green thumbs. And herbs are particularly difficult to grow, considering their constant need for sunshine.
The sports technology lineup at CES includes simulators, safter helmets and an elastic band for televisions.
Slamtec, a Chinese robotics company, is preparing for it to be more common to order food, drinks or shoes from a robot.
“We were on the elevator on our way up here and we’re asking, ‘Are they going to give us a hangover? Do they expect us to arrive hung over?’” CES conventioneer Taylor Lemmon said, laughing. “But where’s the piano? Where’s the tiger?”
The Pet Fitness Robot is a small, two-wheeled robot that can dispense treats or dangle cat toys.
Continental is showcasing it concept delivery system, “cascading robot delivery,” at CES this week in Las Vegas, mixing an autonomous shuttle and anautonomous delivery robot dog.
Las Vegas is 20 years into a craft cocktail revolution that arguably started with the opening of Bellagio in 1998.
Inventor Atiya Syverson promotes the TekNekSavr, which helps fight neck and head problems caused by using smartphones, in a certain position, for extended periods of time.
Aftershokz offers bone-conduction headphones – headphones that don’t go in the ear.