Image: Christina Ascani/Mashable The first tech event of 2017 is also the year’s biggest: CES arrives the first week of January, and like a tardy Santa Claus, it bestows the world with the gift of new consumer tech of every kind phones, cars, TVs, drones, VR you name it. Looked at another way, CES tends to catapult new devices and technologies at the world like enormous gobs of spaghetti. The…