We love CES for many things, but primarily we're there for the gadgets -- the phones, the tablets, the laptops and even the HDTVS, plus all the random stuff we find on the show floor that defies polite categorization.

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The stuff is put through a strainer to remove random debris, then sucked via tubes into a vacuum system that blends it with other polyurethane scraps recovered from car dashboards and shipping materials.

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Things that are so random and quirky that as a writer, I know how hard that stuff is to invent, and it really had the ring of truth to it.

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