Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Here’s a quick summary of what I saw at CES on day 2.

• Hitachi –
  • GESTURE-BASED TV REMOTE CONTROL
    • Use hands in 3D to operate TV
    • CNN covering this technology
  • Prototype Home Video Conferencing (built into TVs)
• NBC Universal –
  • Maria Bartiromo broadcasting from CES expo on show floor
  • Evangelizing NBC Universal properties for advertising and video publications (Hulu)
• Toshiba –
  • SCiB – Laptop Battery technology
    • 5-cell rechargable batteries
    • 90% recharge in 10 minuntes
    • 6000 recharges with no memory effect vs 500 from LiIon
    • Due Late 2009
  • XDE PICTURE OPTIMIZATION CHIPSET – Chips for DVD players
    • Built into SD-DVD players
    • Enhances existing DVD picture quality
    • Inside Toshiba players… OEMing to other vendors
• Sony
  • READER – Sony eBook Store only (BAHAHAHAHA!)
  • PLAYSTATION 3 – Two Killzone 2 gamestations with lots of attention.  Not much for Little Big Planet.
  • ULTRAPORTABLE – Atom 1.33Ghz notebook
    • Size of clutch purse
    • $899
    • Solid state drive available for more
  • JEOPARDY! – TV Show
    • Actual gameshow broadcast from CES floor.
    • Parent company – Sony Pictures
• Fulton Innovation
  • eCOUPLED – Wireless Power standard
    • Partnered with Energizer, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Bosch
    • Magnetic Induction based power delivery
    • 1000Ws!  Wirelessly powered kitchen blender
    • Requires tactile contact – not ranged power
    • Retrofits to Samsung Blackjack 2, Motorola Q, TV remotes, Wiimote
    • Integrated into either battery itself or the device that is battery powered
    • Uses intelligent chip-based I/O to determine how much power is necessary
    • Demo has DirecTV DVR integration… shuts down DVR when remote is being recharged
• Kodak
  • EASYSHARE – Camera
    • $199 Z1485 – 14Mpxl, 5x Zoom 30fps video at 720p
  • ESP9 All-in-One – Printer
    • Twice the ink longevity of HP
    • $9 for black cartridge $15 for color cartridge… CHEAP!
    • WiFi, Duplex, 32ppm
• HP
  • Atom-based laptops…. 1.5Mhz 2Gb, 2.2kilos $400 each.
• Universal Laser Systems
  • ON DEMAND PERSONALIZATION – Laser etcher
    • $10,000 – Software & USB connected laser etcher
    • Dog tags, wine bottles, tiles, skateboards, Xbox, Zunes, iPhones
    • Takes 150sec for dog tag
• Iomega
  • HOME MEDIA NET HARD DRIVE – Drive that streams content to Xbox
    • Gigabit USB 2.0, 500GB/1TB, $160/$220
  • SHOW DEAL!  15% off discount @ iomega.com promo code CES2009
• Creative
  • SHOW SPECIALS at us.creative.com/ces
  • GIGAWORKS T20 – $99 for some nice portable speakers for presenters
  • ZII NANOPROCESSING – Dynamicly activating processors using stem cell processing
• Sandisk
  • 16GB SDFlash = $100