Author Archives: Stewart Wolpin

About Stewart Wolpin

I have been writing about consumer electronics for four decades, including news, reviews, analysis and history for a wide variety of consumer, niche and trade outlets. For the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), I annually update the industry's history and write the official biographies of the CTA Hall of Fame inductees. Aside from writing about consumer technology for a variety of consumer, tech and trade publications, I write a blog and do market research for Digital Technology Consulting. In the non-tech world, I have written "Bums No More: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers" and "The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle." Check out my work at www.stewartwolpin.com.

CES 2016 Coverage for Realty Times

Posted on 19 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

While reporting on CES 2016 for the TWICE Show Daily, I also churned out a number of stories for Realty Times, which they oddly held until a week or more after the show was over. Ah well. Here’s what I … Continue reading →

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Top 6 Small Office & Home Office Products from CES 2016

Posted on 15 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

Here’s a report I wrote for Business.com on small office/home office (SOHO) and small business equipment I saw at CES.

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The 10 Game-Changing Innovations I Saw at CES 2016

Posted on 13 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

Well, this post-CES post I wrote for eBay is pretty much self-exclamatory. And that’s a photo I took of the line snaking around the Oculus booth in the South Hall.

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CES 2016: Tablets Fragment Into Blurring Categories

Posted on 6 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

Here’s a rundown I did for TWICE magazine on what was on view in varying tablet vendor booths, what little there was. I also did a more analytic story on the detachable tablet/laptop market for TWICE pre-show: Detachable Laptops Help … Continue reading →

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CES 2016: Hisense & Sharp Announce 47 New TV Models

Posted on 6 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

During CES once again, I did on-the-spot reporting for the Show Daily, run by TWICE. Many of the stories I wrote appeared ONLY in the printed edition of the Show Daily, unfortunately. But this story on Hisense’s new 2016 TVs … Continue reading →

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Samsung Smart Fridge Harmonizes With Amazon Echo’s Alexa

Posted on 6 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

Um, well – apparently that headline is wrong, as was the Amazon reference in a similar report I wrote for Techlicious (“Samsung’s New Refrigerator Is Also a Giant Tablet“). Samsung told a group of reporters it had invited to a … Continue reading →

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It’s A Smart Home Boomtown At The Sands

Posted on 6 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

TWICE assigned me the smart home beat for CES. Here’s one of my on-site reports on what new gear was on display in a wide variety of booths at the Sands’ Smart Home Marketplace during the show.

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New Wi-Fi HaLow Spec Announced

Posted on 5 January 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

Here’s my report on the new Wi-Fi specification, HaLow, technically 802.11ha, for TWICE during CES.

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Smart LED Lights — Not the Brightest Bulbs Yet, but Getting Smarter

Posted on 16 December 2015 by Stewart Wolpin

Light bulbs are a universal sign for a bright idea (pun intended), but are smart bulbs actually smart? I explored the smart bulb subject for re/code, which you can read here.

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5G: Something Is Happening, But We Don’t Know What It Is

Posted on 14 December 2015 by Stewart Wolpin

As our annual sojourn to the crowded and exhausting CES creeps closer like an appointment for a root canal, we might foretell here what we expect to see at the annual electronics gathering. But instead, we’d like to look ahead … Continue reading →

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