I am in Las Vegas today, but not as a tourist. I am here to let my alter ego as a geek go wild. The Consumer Electronics Show has, according to the organizers, brought 140 thousand gearheads to this desert oasis of neon glitz to see the revolutionary, the new, the tired and the true in Consumer Electronics. I am hosting a talk show on tech today at Lunch @ Pieros, the exclusive event that my wife Pat has produced for years. About 500 selected press nosh on salmon with lobster sauce as technology innovators demonstrate their wares. We have more than 20 interviews already scheduled over the two days including special guest Susanne Kantra Kirschner, Sr. Technology editor of Popular Science, who will give us her critical take on the hits and misses in technology. We'll have a talk about GPS and travel information devices.  We'll also look into the mind of inventor John Boucard, who with Spiderman creator Stan Lee reinvented the secret decoder ring in the form of tiny charms that link up with digital content. We'll examine cellphones that are computers that are cellphones, stuff that connects almost anything with anything else, storytelling software, car PCs and other unconventional stuff. You will have to go to another website and blog to listen as some of this is not of interest to travelers. But, if you have a geek-streak, surf on over to www.lunchat.com/blog . IWe'll post anything of interest to travelers here on The Connected Traveler as well. 

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