Mannerisms

But it applies just as much to some of the stuff at CES. By what stretch of imagination could someone have thought there’s a need for a ‘travel router’, i.e a WiFi router for your hotel room.

Who wants a wireless network in their hotel room? If you’re plugging your laptop into the Ethernet surely you plug it into the Ethernet, you don’t plug your ‘travel router’ into the Ethernet and then communicate with your router by WiFi. Or do you?

Might people want to connect a laptop, a cellular phone, a printer, a camcorder and a camera to a wireless LAN in an hotel room?

Having asked the question, I can see a possible answer. Following on CES, and overlapping by a couple of days, was a trade show for the pornography industry.

Going down to breakfast in the lift on the last day of CES, I chat to a guy, a really old guy, with a badge round his neck which I assumed to be a CES badge. ‘Enjoying the show?’ ‘Great, really great. I come every year”, came the reply.

It seemed a rather enthusiastic response , especially from such a really old guy.

Then I noticed his badge had a picture of a naked girl on it. He was from the next convention.

Now I bet when they congregate in the evenings around the minibar, they have interesting conversations and when they want to share their memories in the form of photos and video clips, or even create some new photographic action, the absolutely ideal way to do it would be a travel router.