In many ways this year's CES looked a lot more like an autonomous-car show than a consumer electronics show. There were announcements aplenty from the likes of Ford, Baidu, Toyota, and others about self-driving vehicles, upcoming driving tests, and new partners. In a parking lot across from the Las Vegas Convention Center, several companies offered rides; you could even schedule a ride in a self-driving Lyft through the company's app and get dropped off at one of many casinos on the Strip. A couple of miles away in downtown Las Vegas, an eight-passenger autonomous shuttle bus ran in a loop around Fremont Street. It was part of an ongoing test between commuter transit company Keolis, autonomous-car maker Navya, and the city.

With a simple swipe of the band across sensors located throughout the park, the giant system knows where you are, what you're doing and what you need. The goal of the tech team who developed the MagicBands was to "root out all the friction within the Disney World experience." The goal would be to potentially offer customized guest experiences at those points. The more data Disney collects it can improve operational efficiency such as in the scheduling of 240,00 shifts for 80,000 employees each week, the better it is able to target marketing because the preferences and behaviors of past guests are used to create future packages and offers specific to them and Disney is even dabbling at making robotic versions of Mickey and Minnie and all of its characters that would move around among the guests and interact with them.