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Sports Gear at CES
January 10, 2012, At the PEPCOM event that accompanied CES and also at the main show support for sports and activities with electronics was growing. While the medical pavilion housed most of the biometric measurement for these sports, under the basis of exercise management, these other areas focused on media capture and delivery. For the media capture side, Liquid Image Company was showing their... [Read more]
Bang & Olufsen Outline Company & New Products
January 11,2012, CES, Las Vegas—Bang & Olufsen presented an outline for the company for the next five years and introduced new products. The company is looking to reinvigorate itself after a few years in the doldrums. They stated that sales were up 22 percent in the past year to $500M. Some company changes included a completely revamped marketing campaign that focuses on a 5-year plan... [Read more]
New DisplayPort Standards
January 10, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—VESA previewed the Mobility DisplayPort standard. They also showed off products that include the features of V1.2. the organization considers DisplayPort to be the main, next-generation display interface. The various standards for interfaces include DisplayPort v1.2 a high-performance, external interface for displays, embedded DisplayPort v1.3 designed for... [Read more]
Renesas Touts new LTE Chips
January 10, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Renesas Mobile Corp. released a new family of LTE-based platforms for mobile devices. They also showed off a graphics engine. The SP2531 comprises a highly integrated baseband modem, an RF subsystem containing the RF integrated chip, front end module, a power amplifier and a power management sub-system. The company received an award for innovations in design... [Read more]
HDMI CES Updates
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Steve Venuti, President of HDMI Licensing presented information on the growth of HDMI in electronics. The HDMI forum also detailed plans for the release of updated specifications. Unit shipments of HDMI devices was 440M in '09 and has grown to over 685M in '11. The growth is expected to continue, resulting in over 1.2B devices in '15. this rapid growth is in... [Read more]
Corning at CES
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Corning made a number of announcements before the show opened. They also invited attendees to visit their booth to see some prototype applications. A new version of Gorilla Glass enables up to a 20 percent reduction in glass thickness, while maintaining damage resistance, toughness, and scratch resistance. The thinner Gorilla Glass 2 enables slimmer and sleeker... [Read more]
Health Data Panel- CES
January 11, 2012, CES Digital Health Summit, Las Vegas—A panel looked at the issues of digital health data in an ever changing operation and legal environment. Ray Maker from DC Rainmaker moderated the panel. Panel members included Ian Andes from 4iiiInnovations, Karl-Johan Dahlstrom from Sony-Ericsson, Chris Fickle from A&D Medical, and Mike Stashak from Wahoo Fitness. The main issue... [Read more]
Zeo Measures Sleep
January 10, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Zeo showed off an EEG monitor with software optimized for sleep monitoring. The product measures and tracks brainwave patterns and delivers them wirelessly to a bedside display or Bluetooth-enabled device. The hardware is a small module that uses a headband or an adhesive strip to mount the module on the forehead. The software tracks sleep stages and measures... [Read more]
Sharp at CES
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Sharp celebrated their 100th anniversary and 50 years in the USA by introducing a number of 80" displays. Watch the full press conference at http://youtu.be/4ItzT1p8Oco. One product family is an 80-inch e-board with integrated Windows computer and touch controls. This is an interactive office product to replace whiteboards. Other models in the family have smaller... [Read more]
Sandisk – CES
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Sandisk introduced a number of new storage products for consumer use. The most interesting announcement was the iNAND Ultra embedded flash memory which will be built in a 19nm process technology. The latest parts are still using the 2-bit per cell architecture from previous generations. Early testing shows that the multi-level cell devices will have similar... [Read more]
