Some Closing Thoughts About CES

By Jeff Gralnick, NBC Universal

And after several days of criss-crossing the display floors, you keep running into things that make you think what WERE they thinking?

Case in point: The company that decided to hawk its service with perky young women wearing t-shirts that said: What's In Your Cardslot?

Yes. It's all about marketing here and it's all about getting noticed in this sea of next big things, but really.

Then there was the young woman playing the harp which was a nice touch in this sea of noise but what were THEY thinking?

Harp. Camcorders. Of course. How silly of me.

But wait, there's more.

Whoever dreamed up those three young women dressed in skimpy outfits that glittered like disco balls as they ran through an overly-choreographed dance routine while playing new wave music on digital violins as one company's latest and greatest in cell phones was being pitched?

And they were thinking?

Sex sells cell phones. How could I have missed THAT?

But did anybody hear a word of it?

So if they've thought all this up for this year, whatever will they do for next year?

One can hardly wait.