Friday, January 08, 2010

Consumer Electronic Show 3

Well, I've spent two days at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. What seem to be the hot areas? 3D TV for one. Some TV set manufacturers are marketing ones that combine special glasses with shows that have been created as 3D material; Samsung has a TV that has a setting that takes regular 2D content and 'converts' it, the the user using special glasses and sees a 3D-like image. That was pretty cool. Zigbee seems to be hanging in there. I didn't see any Wi-Max booth area so far--Clear.com had a pretty useful booth last year and are busy rolling out Wi-Max markets rights now, including Las Vegas. Another cool item was a completely wireless TV receiver--yes, even the electrical current is sent through the air. Imagine that.