Obama, Merkel have fun with gadgets
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UNITED States President Barack Obama slipped on a pair of virtual reality glasses bedecked with plastic googly eyes and mused about someday using the technology to talk with his daughter after she leaves home for college.
The display was but one of many stops on a two-hour tour of Hanover Messe, the world’s largest trade show of industrial technology, and a tour de force of economic diplomacy by Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“It’s a brave new world,” Obama said, doffing the glasses, and moving on to the next elaborate booth.
Obama often tours American businesses and factories — and often spends time with world leaders — but the marathon tour with Merkel was a sign of how much the leaders want to conclude talks on an European Union-US trade deal before Obama’s presidency ends on January 20.
“This is another chance for me to tell everyone to come here and buy ‘Made in America,’” he said.
The high-profile visit was a way to promote the benefits of trade for the economy, said Michael Froman, the US Trade representative, who is negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
“It helps underscore you can’t build walls around the US,” he said in an interview.
Merkel personally invited Obama to feature US businesses at the trade fair and almost 400 US businesses were represented. After trying out numerous gadgets, Obama said: “When I get out of office, I’m going to have a lot of time on my hands.”
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