CES
is over for 2015.
Today
was the last day.
I
spent my morning looking at all the exhibit spaces in the Westgate
Hotel ballrooms adjacent to the Convention Center. These spaces were
all occupied by companies from China, Taiwan, and Korea. None of
these are companies with any name recognition but rather are start-up
companies hoping to find a niche market in the US.
I
didn't see anything of interest except I did score a possible 2 GB
thumb drive. I say possible, because I will not use this thumb drive
until I check it out in on a computer not connected to the internet
and not one that could infect my other computers if this drive is
infected with a virus in any way. I will also reformat this drive
before I use for the same reasons I explained above. Can't be too
careful.
Because
this is the last day of the show, many vendors are more generous with
their give-aways and some even sell their products although this is
frowned upon by the Consumer Electronics Association. Many vendors do
sell because of the cost of shipping products back home so it is a
good deal for vendor and buyer.
I
stopped by the LG Electronics booth and saw this unique washer. It
has a smaller load washer on the bottom. They also have a dryer that
uses a heat pump instead of gas or electricity for drying. The heat
is recirculated within the unit instead of exhausting it to the
outside,
Final
thoughts on this years show.
It
was obvious that attendance was up from the 160,000 count from last
year. Final figures will come later. Booth count was way up and 40,00
plus foreign visitors from 145 countries attended the show.
Bloomberg
estimated that all the booths lined up end to end would be more than
2 miles long. I have no doubt about that figure as I walked some of
those miles more than once.
3D
printing still has a way to go. Mainly because it is so slow.
However, certain Best Buy and Home Depot stores are selling 3D
printers.
Curved
TV screens seem like the wave of the future.
Most
new embedded cameras in PC's will come with Intel's new “RealSense”
feature which allows voice and hand gestures for commands. These
functions were developed in conjunction with Food Network for use in
their studios.
Get
used to the term “The Internet of Everything” or IoT for short.
It was everywhere at this years show and really means that everything
is connected in some way using the Internet. Things like cars,
houses, phones, music, and personal medical devices all connected.
We
will spend another couple of days in Las Vegas decompressing and
running errands before driving to Quartzsite on Monday.
