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With Economy in Decline, Plenty of Empty Booths at CES

by Terrence O'Brien on January 12, 2009 at 10:15 AM

With Economy in Decline, Plenty of Booths Empty at CES
Walking around CES this year, one thing quickly became abundantly clear: There were far fewer companies on hand hocking their wares. Even more surprising many companies coughed up the cash to rent the floor space, but then failed to show up to staff and stock their booths. Not surprisingly, there also seemed to be far fewer people on hand to gawk at the shiniest and newest gadgets than in years past (unofficial estimates put the figures around 100,000 versus last year's 130,000 attendees)

We walked around taking photos of the unmanned and unrented booths at the show, which was funny at first, until we realized just how many their were. Check out the gallery below for the sad sight that was (at least some corners) of CES 2009.

Empty Booths


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