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How do we manage all those blocks in an age of exploding block usage?

LAS VEGAS — If you want to see what electronic design innovation is all about these days, come to the Consumer Electronics Show. Just ignore the lobster food truck. (Sure, food trucks are all the rage, but lobster in the desert? From a food truck? Really?)

Even if you restricted yourself to the Sands Expo Center, the array of technology development showcased here the first week of 2015 was breathtaking. The Sands was packed with almost countless wearables vendors, IOT systems houses, and 3-D printers. In my travels over four days at the CES, this was easily the most-bustling hall.

But for these guys — from a market standpoint — there's a shakeout ahead: There are too many vendors in the wearables and IOT space making too-similar products.

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