Nothing Says Hot Like Babes Wearing Shiny Plastic
The use of booth babes (or show girls as they’re call in Asia) in a trade show is nothing new. After all, one of the best way to dress up a booth is by having it manned by a bunch of hot women. However, Computex uses booth babes for more than just decoration. Unlike other trade shows, where the girls just stand around and look good, the babes are Computex can be divided into five unique working groups.
The Eye Candies
The eye candy group is the booth babe group that we are all use to. They stand around their booths in shiny plastic clothing, next to the products the company wants to promote. Most of the time, these girls are passing out product spec sheets or bags. Sometime they’ll be asked to pose for pics while holding over sized markups of company products.
The Product Demo Babes
The demo group are generally the highest paid babes because they have to be more than just eye candy. They have to go on stage and do product demonstrations and presentations. I believe Jane May would qualify for this group. The demo babes are normally accompanied on stage by the normal booth babes, whose job would be to hand out prizes that they always give away at these events.
The Roaming Floor Babes
The third group of Computex show girls are the roaming floor babes. Unlike North American trade shows, where booth babes must stay at their booth, Computex allows the girls to roam around the convention center to get people to come to their booth. They walk the floor in groups carrying signs that reads “Welcome to visit us at booth XXX”. Often, these roaming girls are used to upstage a competing company’s product demo.
Roaming Demo Babes
These girls travel to different booths to do product demos for partnered companies. For example, the VIA girls above visit all the booths of the motherboard makers that use the VIA chipset to do their presentation and hand out prizes. Because companies like VIA, Intel, NVIDIA and AMD offers roaming booth babe services, some partnered companies won’t hire girls for their own booths.
The Dancing Booth Babe
The last group of booth babes are the dancing booth babes. These girls bust a move in order to stop show goers in their tracks. After they complete their dance, the demo babe takes over.
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I can imaging you wearing some of those outfits John! And I don’t recommend it…
ehh…..ehhh……what?
that’s definitely nice pierce VIA
i can see a contest coming up already…
…it will be something like – write a post about this topic and link to this post with the anchor text “Computex”, and win a hot date with both of the dancing booth babes.
And again the evil strikes! What kind of blogger would’nt want to date those girls? :b
Yay
Hmmm…what if a woman wins and she doesn’t happen to swing that way?
I don’t see that happening till about the time you get him to test that iBod thing.
I would save that. The plastic might stick too much. I hate that squeaking sound. . . .
haha I love those dancing babes! I think John should show us a video of him dancing like that
Now that would get some traffic. Toss that on here and it would go viral in minutes!
Nothing says it more like booth babes dancing to Britney Spears.
Clearly, the woman with shorter hair dances better than the other one. The former does know how to shake what her momma gave her!
Are you going to start an online dance off?
Yeah, makes me want to buy AMD products… somehow… I guess…
Dancing babes? Funny
Lol
It must have been hard to not look at those babes when your wife was around 
She took the pictures!
PERFECT!!!!!!
LOL!
Those babes are hot. I wish I was there with you John. (^_^)
http://www.johnchow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/computex-girl6.jpg
is the one on the left lucy liu?
looks similar, but i don’t think they afford to pay her to be just a booth babe. but it’d be so nice if it was really her
No it’s not her but she was a very good demo babe.
she looks like my microbiology teacher…
I bet she inspired you to study really hard, didn’t she.
Can you ship me one of those girls (preferrably one with a large rack) via Fedex?
I’ll take two!
By rack you mean server rack, right?
Yeah, one of those huge server racks
can i still join to the party? i’ll take 3
this is geeky and perverted at the same time
jeff you should live inside a trade show. lol
That wasn’t cool?
Does your wife care if you look at them?
I guess “look but don’t touch” works for them, Alex.
Wow,pretty girls,my choice is the Roaming Demo Babes!
What is the ROI on a “Booth Babe”?
Michael
Now that’s a really good question. It’s all fun and games, but at the end of the day, the “babes” go home and all you’re left with is the leads/sales
Bang on. You might get more eyes to your area but there has to be a strategy in place once their looking.
Roaming Demo Babes are the best!
roaming floor is not that bad either! good marketing lol
Wish the AMD processors move as fast as the babes did
pretty girls mm mm mmm
wow! sexy girls on the road
john, you can choose which one of them.
For next time, I suggest investing in a wide-angle lens.
And zoom!
I think John uses it for special occasions — like spying on that girl (was that in Montreal?) with a tattoo on her lower back. That camera had a lot of zooming power alright.
They seem less intimidating then North American booth girls.
I was just at EMC World conference and there was one company that had a knockout booth babe and you can guess which booth had the largest crowd each and every day.
It was pretty funny to see the crowd of geeky guys hanging around this booth just watching as she moved through the crowd scanning badges.
Mr. Chow, I come back from a two month absence and what do I find? You reveling with booth babes.
Indeed, some things never change.
=^..^=
Does your wife like it that you take pics of them???
He said earlier in the post that the wife actually took the pictures :b
Dancing booth babes… just goes to show that in asia… no one can dance hip hop
No offense but you have no idea what you are talking about.
Might be because they were sponsored by/running on AMD. Intel Inside, Idiot Outside.
That Nicole lady from the Pussycat Dolls is part Asian…so was the girl who won the Next Pussycat Doll contest. The dancing girls at the show could’ve used a little bit more practice though, sure.
huh?? they’re BOOTH babes. true hip hop dancers don’t really attend such events. why do you think they will work at one lol.
They should teach these girls to dance better.
Wasn’t there any hot girls who didnt actually work? Who just attended like a regular..
That’s the fifth kind.
I was waiting for the babes since Day One
Out of curiousity…
Booth babes aside, was your time at Computex productive?
Yep! I met all the people I wanted to meet.
That music was awful… I guess it had something to do with the recording!
Yuck.
Kenneth
BTW, I can’t believe how some people manage to get 67 or 85 comments! I struggle to find enough to …
Now I know why AMD is cool!
They need to add a 6th class of stripping booth babes. That would make people excited to go to one of these shows.
You’re trying to make me buy you more beer aren’t you?
wow, these girls are all around, i bet John is having a great time checking them out
who wouldn’t?
Jane May for demo babes
when where 
The dancing babes actually scare me a little, so I’ll take the eye candies.
I’ve never been to a trade show, but I’m getting tickets right now. They do mud wrestle, right?
haha reminds me of e3.. too bad they’re banned there.
This is yet another example of the selling power of sex.