Chief executive Sol Trujillo has taken his 10-member board to the show at the cost of a first-class return from Sydney of a mere $A11,000 ($NZ13,000) each so they can keep up with the latest trends.
I am sure there were a few journalists from New Zealand winging their way to the show to try out the latest and greatest gadgets which include Windows 7, the beta version of which was launched on Friday.
But if I could be friends with Mr Trujillo for a few days, then I would get to stay in top hotels and probably get to play with some of the new toys.
Playing with toys is what I want to do at this time of the year.
It becomes a bit of an obsession reading up about the new releases and anxiously awaiting details and reviews.
In summer time, new gadgets and toys are fun.
One of those toys would be the replacement for the old Polaroid cameras which was released on Thursday.
Polaroid stopped making film packs last year and, strangely, a group of us were talking about what would be developed that was of equal fun when a press release arrived about the digital replacement.
Polaroid said it was introducing a digital camera that produced prints right on the spot.
You could call them "instant" prints, except they take nearly a minute to appear, so they are only as "instant" as the old film prints.
The $US200 PoGo is a camera that contains a built-in colour printer. It produces 5cm x 7.5cm photos by selectively heating spots on specially treated paper.
It has nothing to do with the old chemical Polaroid process, but the prints convey some of the same Pop Art charm: They are grainy and the colours are slightly off, with faces tending towards a deathly blue-green.
The camera is a successor to a stand-alone printer Polaroid put out last summer, designed to connect to camera phones and digital cameras.
Reports out of Las Vegas said the camera would not be available until late March or early April in the US but here's hoping they make their way down here.
They will be a bit of fun for people missing waving around in the air the Polaroid prints of old.
The PoGo also has an advantage over the old film cameras. You can look at what you shot on the LCD screen, then choose whether you want to print it.
You can produce multiple prints of an image, or print something you shot some time ago.
Microsoft released its Windows 7 at the show as the follow up to the Windows Vista operating system, which hurt the company with bad reviews and disappointing sales.
Mackline never came to grips with Vista, despite valiant attempts by Microsoft experts to help.
I reverted to XP for my laptop and desk top and will now await Windows 7, which is set to go about improving the software giant's reputation.
Vista worked on my computers but not as it should. It required so much computing power when it was introduced in January 2007, that it slowed me down.
New features are designed to make operating a computer less frustrating and to work better with gadgets.
Microsoft is betting that the final version of Windows 7, expected to arrive in stores in a year, will address some of the problems that plagued Vista.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Windows would remain the centre of people's technological solar system.
"We are on track to deliver the best Windows ever."
Microsoft also scored a win over rival Google on two search engine deals announced at the show.
The first was with Dell Inc to load Microsoft's search engine on new PCs.
The second was an exclusive five-year agreement to install Windows Live search software on most cellphones sold by Verizon Wireless which, when it completes acquisition of Alltel, will be the United States' largest cell carrier with more than 71 million subscribers.
The introduction of 3-D television was also a feature at the show, with Panasonic, Samsung and Texas Instruments showing off television technology capable of displaying 3-D-like pictures.
The industry is billing it it as the next big leap in television technology.
To help defray the cost of creating 3-D movies, which can cost 15% more to make, Hollywood studios are studying how to deliver 3-D to the home.
They are interested in creating a 3-D home video market to generate payback for their investments in making the movies. The only question is whether we will want to don the 3-D glasses to sit in front of out television sets.
The current generation of glasses are essentially miniature LCD screens that flicker at high speeds, filtering different images to the left and right eye to produce an image that appears three-dimensional.
In a perfect world we would not need glasses but, glasses or not, it will be several years before 3-D televisions become mainstream.
The consumer electronics industry, movie studios and broadcasts have yet to agree on standards for recording, transmitting, receiving and interpreting 3-D signals.
Many are hoping those technical details can be worked out this year.
The iPhone was the star of the show last year but with Apple not attending this year, phone fanatics (me included) were looking to Palm, which did much to create hand-held computers but lost its lead in smart phones.
Palm delivered with a new touch-screen phone which sent the company's share price soaring 35% as investors hoped the moves could help win back customers from Apple.
Palm has staked its future on the Palm Web OS operating system and the new phone which it has been developing since 2007.
It has GPS location technology, Wi-Fi wireless connectivity and a slide out full keyboard. No price was available.
I have been glued to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to catch a glimpse of something special.
Part of me thinks that while it would be fun to be there, you can get a good view from home.
The place was packed, even with the downturn. However, I am sure there will be room for one more next year.
