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The International CES is heralded as the world's largest consumer technology event, drawing more than 2,400 exhibitors from over 110 different countries. Overwhelming in scale, exhibit design, and sheer volume of visitors, attendees spend as much energy worrying about what they're missing as what they're seeing. And let us assure you, given the scope of the exhibition there is lots to miss.
The event has morphed over the last few years from a show of stereos and TVs into a much more comprehensive review of state-of-the-art technology, as the notion of what constitutes "consumer electronics" has expanded and grown more sohisticated. Another aspect of the show is to serve as a leading indicator of trends in technology, design and brand development, expecially among large, established players such as Motorola and Microsoft. Given the confluence of design, technology and Las Vegas, the show is enough to make a designer's head spin. Repeatedly. But since we can't all make it to the show, we've collected a few snapshots of standout items to share. |
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| www.cesweb.org www.core77.com |
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| Interconnects When your home theatre image is just not cutting it, PureAV cables clean up the sound and picture quality getting the best possible results out of your equipment, a little hard to see in the photo but the screen is split to demonstrate the enhanced PureAV image on the right. link |
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| RemoteTV RemoteTV simply rocks. Wirelessly transfer high quality video to multiple screens through out your house, with one box you can send movies and music into two rooms at the same time. link |
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| LocationFree TV LocationFree TV is essentially a LCD tablet you can carry around the house with the added functionality of surfing the web and checking email. The base connects with your home entertainment system, the net and has a USB port for a keyboard. The wireless monitor has ports for just about every device you own and features an on-screen keyboard if you don't want to plug-in an external one. Its pretty cool but I'm guessing the 100 – 240 minute battery life is optimistic. link |
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| World's lagest TV Yep. Its big. link |
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| SolidDrive : Speaker The SolidDrive transforms walls. windows, tables and nearly any solid surface into a speaker. Create invisible speakers in the home by embedding these units inside the walls, either in clusters for direct sound or spread out for ambient sound. These were surprisingly clear considering the background noise of the show. link |
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| iPort The people over at Sonance have made it possible to place your new iPod in your wall and have it be controlled through practically any local or whole-home audio system. link |
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| LG HomNet : Home Tasking Solution Control digital home appliances and home automation devices, inside as well as away from home. The television/refrigerator incorporates a 13.5-inch television screen, FM radio, two speakers and a TV tuner. link |
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| Full body massage chairs Some happy campers taking a moment to reflect on the future. |
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| Intelligent Oven TMIO's Intelligent Oven works as both a refrigerator and oven, allowing you to prepare a meal in the morning and call from work to tell the oven to start cooking or online when you know your days schedule. link |
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| WACS700 Wireless Music Center A modular home music system, wirelessly transmit MP3s, CDs and stream music to multiple units around the home. The base station holds up to 40GB of music and allows you to play different music in up to 5 rooms at the same time. link |
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| Travel Router Don't you hate it on the road when your fully decked out with the latest gear ready to tap into any hotspot you come across and you get stuck in your clients office with some complicated firewall encrypted ethernet - fear not! This Travel Router allows you to create an instant wireless network anywhere by plugging into any available Ethernet port. This could be another work around for those european internet providers who insist on locking the computers IP address to their service and charging for multiple computers to connect. link |
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