The Consumer Electronics Show, CES Asia, began its three-day run in Shanghai today. This is the second year that the world's leading tech fair has headed east to Shanghai, and our reporter Mi Jiayi just couldn't stay away.
CES Asia 2016 is double the size of last year, and so each of the 350 exhibitors has to try as hard as it can to get as much attention as possible. There are more big names this year: Huawei brought its latest mobile phones and smart watches, working on its intelligent hardware empire; Alibaba took Tmall to the show, making e-commerce touchable for the viewers. And of course, companies in virtual reality, 3D printing, and most smart wearables you could imagine, are there too.
"Our products this year focus on being sporty and fashionable," said Robert Fong, Managing Director, Monster.
"We have our Curie Music, which is using the Curie chip to create music, same idea as checking motion and activity. Another big hitter here is the virtual reality game, so that uses Intel technology to power and have great experience," said Salesperson, Intel.
Drones are one of the biggest rising stars this year. Both inside the exhibition halls and outside everyone could see and hear the the drones buzzing overhead. Many have come here especially for the flying technology.
"I think drones are the biggest attractions in this year's CES Asia. Drone is a technology that should be available for almost all ages, that why we have what is believed to be the world's smallest drone, along with more advanced commercial drones. I think this will satisfy consumers of all ages," said Michael Faro, President, Mota.
Apart from the small toys, there's an exhibition hall entirely dedicated to one big toy -- cars. there are cars here that can not only plan your routes, but then drive you there by themselves, and of course, electronic cars. you can even try on some of the technologies here.
This year, there's also a start-up park at the exhibition allowing more junior companies to share their products and ideas. The CES organizers say they learned a lot from last year's experience.
"Last year was a great success, everybody come and say they think it's too small, so this year we expanded the size, and have more interesting products and technologies, and we also improved the Wi-Fi technology, which is complained a bit last year," said Jenny Hu, Project Director, CES Asia.
The show will close on Friday, and by then organizers estimate more than 300,000 visitors will have come to enjoy giving the new tech a good try-out.
