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Miles walked:
Tuesday at CES is the opening day for press with only a couple of events and most of the mileage was walking around Aria to reach the conference centre, then around the Venetian and Mandalay Bay for different events. 3.3 miles
Wednesday is press day and we walk round and round the Venetian between press conferences, then over to the Hilton for the keynote, then back to the hotel to drive down to an evening event where we walk around a room of stands. 4 miles
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday are show days and we walk from the hotel to the LVCC, between the different halls, back to the hotel to drive to meetings at hotels on the other side of town, back from the hotel to the LVCC for more walking between the halls and then back to the hotel (some evenings we go to another mini show where we walk the room): 8 miles, 7 miles, 6 miles and 5 miles respectively.

Companies talked to: about 95. It's hard to count exactly, because there are some companies with talked with more than once - we had meetings with the Microsoft teams that work on Surface, the Touch Mouse, Windows Embedded and Windows 7/8, we spoke to Intel twice about second generation Core processors and once about AppUp - and we went to a few sessions and keynotes with multiple companies presenting and we had a few conversations where I didn't take notes (either because it wasn't an area we're likely to cover or we already have the product details), so this is my best guess.

Most interesting stories I wrote from CES:

Asus at CES: choice and innovation
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/asus-launches-four-eee-pad-and-eee-slate-tablets/
Asus's transforming tablets
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/hands-on-asus-eeeslate-review-and-eeepad-review/
Asus shows off shape-changing concept tablets
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/asus-shows-off-shape-changing-concept-tablets/
What Windows 8 on SoC means
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/what-does-windows-on-soc-mean-for-windows-8/
First take: NEC Cloud Communicator
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/zdnet-uk-first-take-10013312/ces-nec-dual-screen-android-cloud-communicator-10021437/
Motion Computing CL900 hands on
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/hands-on-motion-tablet-review/
The secret Windows tablets of CES
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/the-secret-windows-tablets-of-ces/
Hands on with Surface 2.0
http://ces2011.techradar.com/2011/01/hands-on-microsoft-surface-2/
Hands on with the PlayBook
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Blackberry-Playbook-Demo,review-1618.html
How Microsoft made the Touch Mouse
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/how-microsoft-made-the-touch-mouse-920742
My last CES roundup: The hidden gems of CES 2011: Next-gen touch and health helpers
http://techradar.com/921980

If you watch Las Vegas (the show that no longer has James Caan in), there was a recent episode about green issues (nicely intercut with flying a guy off for an evening of surfing). Delinda get the green bug and wanted to turn the whole hotel greener. Do you know what our environmental impact is, she wails to Danny who replies that Las Vegas is in a desert and wthout environmental impact it wouldn't be there. But they do turn some suites green for eco-tourists, and promise to do more if it pays. Very pragmantic show, Las Vegas.

And someone at CES must be watching, as I just got this press release.
"In addition to offsetting the carbon emissions of all CES venues, freight, shuttle buses and hotel rooms, we will provide attendees with the opportunity to offset their airline travel via www.CESweb.org and kiosks on the show floor.

 CEA believes it will be fully offsetting its carbon footprint. The calculations do not even factor in the carbon savings due to CES. For example, CEA estimates that by offsetting CES and consolidating trips otherwise necessary for the same meetings, the net savings in travel miles is over 700 million miles.

CES will also debut a TechZone dedicated to environmentally and economically sustainable technologies which contribute to the social and cultural growth of the developing world. To remind attendees of their offsetting options and provide tips for a ‘greener’ CES experience, CEA will produce a “Greening CES” TV segment to be broadcast in all attendee hotel rooms, and attendees will also have more opportunities to recycle aluminum cans, plastic, paper and glass at CES.

CEA is taking additional steps to make the 2008 International CES more sustainable including working with its Las Vegas-based vendors to use ‘green’ solutions at the event itself. Seventy-five percent of all food containers and utensils used by the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) to serve CES attendees will be fully biodegradable and all surplus food will be donated to the Las Vegas Rescue Mission; recycled carpet will be used throughout the Central Hall of the LVCC; and all attendee literature will be printed on post-consumer recycled paper with soy ink. Likewise, only non-hazardous cleaning solvents and soaps will be used by LVCC staff and all light bulbs, batteries and electronics used by the show will be recycled and diverted from landfills."

With 3,000 exhibitors and 140,000 attendees that's a lot of light bubls, soda cans and bus schedules...