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LAS VEGAS, NV -- Technology surrounded by people. People surrounded by technology.
This is CES Unveiled, just a speck of a preview of the annual Consumer Electronics Show running all week in Las Vegas. With exhibit space equaling about 35 football fields, it's billed as the world's largest consumer technology trade show, boasting everything from high end TVs and audio equipment to low to the ground, remote controlled beverage coolers. This is where manufacturers try to wow us, show us stuff we never thought possible, like a radio for the hearing impaired?
Basically what we're doing is providing closed captioning using the new radio technology. It'll send the actual text of a radio show to your radio. During the analog days, it wouldn't have been possible but now with digital, broadcasters basically have three channels of digital that they can send out and they can use one of those signals to send data to radios for the hearing impaired.” said Jim Burke of the Harris Corporation.
We're also seeing more green technology out here, something CES organizers say they're making a push for from the top down.
The show itself is green. We're using recycled materials in some of our carpeting. We've challenged our vendors to do things differently. The cups are recyclable, the ink we're using in our photocopiers is a special soy ink, plus, a tremendous amount of green products being shown,” said Gary Shapiro of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Products like the NRG Dock, a solar panel you either hang outside your home or stick to the window of your apartment that developers insists will charge just about any device up to the size of a laptop in the same amount of time as a standard wall outlet.
You can buy tips that fit all of the devices you might have and you now unplug all of your chargers, throw them away, you go completely off the grid,” said Jay Leboff.
Turning technology into a man's, or woman’s, best friend, is also a growing trend.
Wow Wee Robotics, which has a made a business out of bringing robots to the masses, says it's unveiling a dozen new robots here, from the Alive Cubs to the Blade Star, its version of a remote controlled helicopter, it insists it is easier to use than any remote controlled helicopter you've ever seen.
It knows where you are based on the remote. So if you say forward, it'll go away from you even if you move, it senses walls, it senses ceilings, so if you put you're hands up next to it you can actually guide it across the room,” said Davin Sufer.
But if you don't think a flying robot is destined for your room, keep an open mind. There are an estimated 20,000 new products being shown here this week for the very first time.
Source : [Capital News9] Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas
