CES is boring. Gadgets are boring. This is boring.

OMG CES WTF BLT! Yes, the annual Consumer Electronics Show is nigh, bringing some much-needed glitz and glamour to a dusty little desert hamlet called Las Vegas. For a few days, the likes of LG, HP, Philips, and Samsung will be treated like Kardashians. Hey, we’re sending a dozen people to CES this year - we must be really excited about it because it’s so much fun fun fun!

Uh, no. Your first morning there, you might be impressed by the sheer spectacle, by the size and the noise and the weirdness. But it gets old by lunchtime.

By the time you’ve gone for seven straight years, when you see the same hype blitz over the same curved screens and 4K TVs from year to year, you realize that the electronics industry’s biggest trade show runs almost entirely on mundane interactions between mundane company reps making mundane deals for mundane products. You know, like any other trade show. There’s nothing to see here, folks. That’s why we’re sending a bunch of business folks and no bloggers, probably ever again.

Nobody will be gushing over things like the Innergie mCube Mini 90-Watt Adapter on Good Morning America. No recently retired, not-quite-Hall-of-Fame-caliber athletes will be promoting it. You won’t hear anyone use words like “future”, “tomorrow”, “shiny”, or “wizardry” in referring to it.

So it’s boring. It’s boring that for a mere five bucks, it plugs into any DC outlet to deliver 90 watts of power for your laptop (as long as it’s compatible, so, not Apple) and/or 10 watts for any USB-charging device (including Apple). Oh, yeah, sorry, Appletons: your Mac’s MagSafe connector just protected you from being able to use this.

Low expense, low hassle, low dazzle factor. Are there fancier, shinier, more futuristic devices out there? Sure. When our people go to CES this week, will they be paying more attention to scoring more deals like this than to the new wearable 8K virtual-reality blah blah blah? Damn right they will.