Thinking about going out to Las Vegas to check out the gadget-fest known as CES? Well, my boy Robert Scoble from PodTech.net has some great advice for you… DON’T! You’ll spend all your money and get really sore feet and a short temper. Instead, sit back in your most comfy chair and watch it all on the web. Here’s how:

First, if you’re one of two people who don’t addictively visit Engadget and Gizmodo every 15 minutes you should start. Now.

They are already going nuts with CES pictures, vids, rumors, and more.

I heard that Engadget has more than 10 people walking the floor for you. Why? So you don’t have to!

In fact, last year I kept Engadget on my cell phone WHILE I was walking the show floor. Why? Those crazy people find all the cool stuff and then when you see it on Engadget you rush over to get your hands on the cool geeky toy.

But, don’t stop with Engadget and Gizmodo. There are a ton of other sites that are going to be at CES too.

Here’s some:

1. CrunchGear.
2. GearLive. (Uploaded hundreds of videos last year alone — all from the BlogHaus).
3. SlashGear.
4. PCMag.
5. CNET News.com.
6. Geek News Central.
7. G4TV.

I’m sure there are many others. You can use Google News to follow CES news, for instance.

If you are going (and you can’t get out of it) be aware of this:

1. Paul Kedrosky tracked how much higher the hotel prices are.
2. There’s a few events for bloggers, too.
3. Michael Gartenberg says to bring good socks AND listen to Jeremy Toeman’s advice.
4. M3 Sweatt works at Microsoft and has lots of good advice.

My advice? Stay home and avoid the two-hour taxi lines.

Read the full article here: How to survive CES 2008 without getting off the couch

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