A first-time CES entrepreneur, age 82
On the first official morning of CES, Carol Staninger stopped and started her motorized wheelchair through the cavernous Sands Expo and Convention Center, trying -- sometimes failing -- not to clip the herd of eager attendees who overlooked the octogenarian at chest height. A service elevator took Staninger, with gray hair, a pale-yellow jumper and silver brooch, to the show floor. She politely received a flyer from an over-perfumed woman representing a French shoe company. She consulted her flip phone to find the rest of the team. And eventually, Staninger arrived at her booth in the trade show's startup section, opposite an electric-skateboard showcase and a Korean company selling iPhone cases with embedded stun guns. "I have arrived," she said to her team. More than 170,000 people from 150 countries are at this year's CES, but it's rare to see an 82-year-old startup entrepreneur. For Staninger, president of Ancer LLC -- a blend of her name and her two chil...