Las Vegas – What is Hot at CES?
Posted on 09. Jan, 2009 by Editor in Business, Hot Topics
CES 2009 - Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas: Jan 8th - 11th
CES – Consumer Electronics Show – produced by the Consumer Electronics Association, has opened its doors once again for its annual International electronics show in fabulous and famous Las Vegas, Nevada.
CES highlights every year what is new in the field of digital electronics during this coming year. In some cases you get a sneak peak of what is on the technology burner in development; and in others you will get to see the new release of a finished product.
SDXC – eXtended Capacity memory card
What this memory card doesn't capture - you don't need!
One of the hot new little items is the SDXC – eXtended Capacity memory card. Remember back in the day when the first 640Mb hard-drive was produced? At the time, Bill Gates said who would ever need that much space; and yet, look at where we are at today. The new SDXC – eXtended Capacity memory card will now have storage capacity up-to 2 terabytes.
Now who needs all that memory space?
With all the latest explosions in video playback from a cell phone – you now have the space to record your long (long) family vacation. Only don’t try to email a copy through your phone to your friends or relatives. Their technology may not have caught up with your and their ISP’s may think you are starting a Denial of Service Attack because your file is so large.
Palm's plan for application development on the new Palm Pre will help determine its fate. (Credit: Palm)
What else is new?
“The Palm announcement at CES — a new OS and new hardware — was everything people had been hoping for, and more. The OS, Palm webOS, looks solid, and the UI looks fun and easy. The device, the Pre, is pretty slick, with both the pebble-in-the-stream smoothness of the iPhone and a slide-out keyboard. One thing that’s less clear: How will developers get their apps into the hands of users, and how will Palm (and Sprint, the Pre’s launch carrier) ensure reliability of the apps? And can Palm still attract developers?” — Rafe Needleman – CNet News
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft announced the new Microsoft 7 operating system.
Panasonic announced Internet content for its plasma TVs.
The gadgets are too numourous to mention; however, here are a few that were reported by Anupreeta Das on Reuters Blog entitled CES: Gadgets, from the corny to the cute.
Universal remote control: Not a big deal, but Logitech’s newest one is a sleek little gadget, with a 3.5-inch touch screen that fits easily in the palm of your hand. It’s an improvement on their previous universal remote, which had both a touch-based user interface and keys, the exhibitor told us. But it’s not cheap — she said it would retail for $499.95 from end-February onwards.
USB 3.0: The era of USB 3.0 is here, the folks from the USB Implementers Forum announced at CES. Data transfer speeds will get a lot faster once gadget makers begin making devices with the news standards. So, for example, you can download a 27 gigabyte high-definition movie in a little over a minute, or 8 gigabytes of photos from your camera in just 20 seconds. It will still all be compatible with USB 2.0 platforms, of course. Made me wonder for a minute about USB 1.0 compatibility… my work laptop still runs that standard.
Fuji’s green batteries: What’s green about these new AA and AAA batteries from Fuji apart from their color? They’re actually 94 percent recyclable. As the demo guy told us: “You could throw these into your backyard and it would be fine.” The batteries are made through a green manufacturing process and contain no mercury, but that doesn’t make them any pricier than your regular cells. ETA: around Earth Day.
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