Power Goes Out at the High-Tech CES Show
January 10 2018 - 5:51PM
Dow Jones News
By Katherine Bindley
LAS VEGAS -- The lights went out at the nation's premier
consumer-technology conference, leaving thousands of attendees and
a legion of shiny gadgets in the dark.
The culprit was a power outage at the Las Vegas Convention
Center, where tech enthusiasts, corporate vendors and members of
the media were on hand for the annual CES show.
The illumination from scores of smartphones equipped with bright
screens and flashlight-camera apps filled the massive central hall,
home to the booths of Samsung Electronics Co., Intel Corp., Huawei
Technologies Co. and dozens of other companies.
While heavy rainfall the prior day flooded the streets around
the convention center -- buckets were still scattered throughout
the convention halls collecting water from leaks -- the cause of
the outage, which went on for more than an hour, wasn't clear.
The Consumer Technology Association, which runs the conference,
said it was limiting access to the convention center as it
gradually restored power.
Josiah Nuzum was standing near an area where people could sit
and experience an automated-driving demo. "This indeed does require
power," Mr. Nuzum, a sports-marketing manager with Intel, said
sarcastically.
"Most technology" does, he added.
Write to Katie Bindley at Katie.Bindley@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 10, 2018 17:36 ET (22:36 GMT)
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