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›While this magazine goes through the throes of shutdown, other, more real-life journalists got to get away to Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Shows. The usefulness of this is debatable, but many great stories have indeed come from trade shows. Like this one.] BY NOW IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE to learn that I don’t really do trade shows. Why would I? My “job” isn’t to promote these people’s products and innovations, just to subject myself to them. Fill out the form, tick the box that best describes the burning sensation, collect my $125 and move on. There are always exceptions, of course. For instance, the Personal Fitness Cybernetics And Gluten Free Robotic Kitchen Appliances Expo 2016 really, really wanted a bunch of “reputable” scienti›ic test subjects…

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Popular Science Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2019

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