CES 2017: 20,000 consumer electronics products will be launched despite ‘gadget apocalypse’

Earlier this month, the New York Times offered some bad news for the more than 180,000 people preparing to descend on Las Vegas next week for the world’s largest consumer electronics trade show:
Gadgets are dead!
This will no doubt come as a shock to the companies set to launch an estimated 20,000 new gadgets when the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 starts on January 5. For perspective on what Times columnist Farhad Manjoo dubbed the “Gadget Apocalypse,” I called up Shawn D