Lights out at CES: Giant trade show plunges into darkness, knocks out Samsung, LG, and other booths

GeekWire ^ | 10 Jan 2017 | Nat Levy

[shove_it]

Electronics giants like Samsung, LG, Panasonic and more suddenly lost power to their booths a little after 11 a.m. PT. LG’s exhibit in the center portion of the hall is enclosed, and when the power dropped out it drew audible gasps from attendees, and for a minute it seemed like some sort of surprise announcement. But everyone quickly realized that there was a problem and brought out their phones to provide a modicum of light as attendees exited the hall.

Other parts of the hall remain up and running, but CES attendees outside were locked out of the convention center after the outage...

[shove_it]

Low Tech trumps high tech ... chuckle

[avital2]

can’t those geeks find the unplugged plug? !!

[mac_truck]

Union labor...

[shove_it]

Nope leaky roof.

[Always A Marine]

I'm glad nobody shouted "Aloha Snackbar" in the sudden darkness. There would have been a stampede.

[Sacajaweau]

Some kind of irony going on here...

Only God can make a tree.....and light....and.....

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The Russians obviously hacked it.

[noiseman]

If the OLED TV manufacturers were quick thinking, they probably used the outage as an opportunity to continue to tout OLED’s “perfect blacks.” /s

[4yearlurker]

I was just going to say that. Any Union problems over there?

[Jeff Chandler]

Ironic.

[DeFault User]

[central_va]

How about a nice 40% tariff on all imported TVs. We can make them here and employ Americans.

[Cold Heart]

There’s a bug in the electrical system

[UCANSEE2]

[ctdonath2]

[ridesthemiles]

A large part of our rural N Nevada valley lost power at 12:35 PM today. for about 45 + minutes.

[UB355]

Foxconn is in the process of building a flat screen manufacturing plant in Wisconsin.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-foxconn-wisconsin/foxconn-announces-u-s-manufacturing-plant-in-wisconsin-idUSKBN1AB258

[central_va]

Foxconn is in the process of building a flat screen manufacturing plant in Wisconsin.

They should be rewarded with a tariff!

[moehoward]

And Samsung is refurbing a Caterpiller factory to make washers and dryers.

[central_va]

And Samsung is refurbing a Caterpiller factory to make washers and dryers.

I'm in the market for a bench top drill press. I cannot find one Made in the USA. I am going to have to spend either a gazillon on a Swiss made one(Jet) or go cheap with Gook made one that will last about a year. I hate Harbor Fake.