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CES 2012: SaintelDaily.com Hands on with NEST
The NEST may one day find its way into every new home. Here is my hands on with it from CES 2012
What does Sony have up it’s sleeve for CES?
Sony Ericsson Facebook has tease up about a “big announcement” for the Consumer Electronics Show. Could it be the Xperia Arc 2, Xperia Ion, Arc HD or the Nozomi?
Sony is said set to launch a new phone on AT&T, code-named the LT28at. Sony Ericsson registered a trademark for the name Xperia Ion.
Sony is definitely building up for something big at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. We have no idea what it is because nothing has been confirmed but we are at CES this next week. We will have to take a look.
Glass-less 3D? Yes, it’s real & coming thanks to 3D Fusion
3D is the future media. It’s been pushed by Hollywood hard ever since Avatar took over the box office. Everything that comes out in the movies is in 3D. Even if it was not meant to be. They go and have it converted. Even if its to the dismay of movie goers. Case in point Clash of the Titans.
While at the movies you stay in a fixed position. That is why the glasses for 3D are not too much of a distraction. You don’t move. You are there to enjoy the content on the huge screen. Now while at home that is a completely different matter all together. People don’t want to be forced to wear glasses nor do they want to stay in a stationary location.
Such a thought will be a thing of the past. Recently while at CES on The Hill I happen to have met a very knowledgeable individual named Rodolfo La Maestra. He is the Senior Technical Director at HDTV Magazine. Rodolfo has participated in the HDTV vision since the late 1980′s when HDTV was proposed as an analog system. In the late 1990′s, he began tracking and reviewing HDTV related technologies and hundreds of consumer products, which prompted him in 2002 to pioneer the authoring of the annual HDTV Technology Review report.
Rodolfo and I had a long conversation about the state of media and where it is going. 3D in the home is the most fascinating topic he covered however. Soon consumers will be able to watch 3D at home with out the need for glasses. Thanks to a company called 3D Fusion. They have come up with a glass less 3D technology that is in one word “incredible”
Exciting out-of-screen 3D effects
•Immediately grabs the attention of the viewer
Autostereoscopic display
•No need for special 3D glasses
•Multiple users experience 3D at the same time
•Large 3D viewing zone
•No “sweet spots”, no image distortions
Multi-view lenticular technology
•Full brightness and full contrast
•True color representation
High quality 3D and 2D mode
•2D high-definition video playback
•Autosensing between 2D and 3D mode
End-to-end system solution
•From content creation to visualization
•Integrated intelligent signal processing
•Flexible 3D data format through 2D-plus-depth
•3D application performance and distribution bandwidth close to 2D
Declipse supported for enhanced viewing experience
•Additional occlusion information enables the ‘look around’ effect
Full range of 3D content creation services
•3-stage (automatic, semi-automatic, and manual) 2D to 3D conversion process
•Plug-ins for most popular 3D rendering software tools (3D studio max and Maya)
•In-house development of custom 3D imaging applications per client’s request
CES on The Hill: Cutting-edge Technology comes to Washington, DC
Today members of Congress, their staff and administration officials will have an opportunity to play with all the technologies that were on display in Vegas. The tech that they will be playing with will impact their minds on policy decisions on current and future technology.
I have been to CES many times in Vegas but today in the Washington, DC I will make the switch to the press side of things. I will be looking at things from an objective stand point. Not just what I like but what makes sence in the market place.
I will ask politicians their thoughts on hot issues such as AT&T buying T-Mobile. What they think about Sony getting hacked and what they think about the cloud in general.
Toyota Entune Takes On Ford Sync
Toyota’s still the biggest auto manufacturer in the world but the company has been far behind the competition in other ways. The Ford’s SYNC has become something like a gold standard in auto advanced communications. Toyota looks to change that with the Entune.
Entune will be out this year, but Toyota isn’t saying which models will have the feature or whether you will have to pay extra for it. By the looks of it Ford Sync has nothing to worry about for a while.
PlayOn Lets You Play For Free
I just got an email from our friends at PlayOn. They made a splash at CES thanks to Vizio adding PlayOn service to their TVs. Now for the next two weeks, you’ll have unlimited access to all of our PlayPack games. Play whatever you want, for as long as you want. But do it now while the Free Beta lasts! Play free now! Just sign in and select “OnLive PlayPack Beta” under My Games.
Ready for CES 2012
Good news for people who love bad good news. According to IDG News, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show saw around 140,000 people descend upon it, which pretty much destroys the estimate of 126,000 attendees. 126,000 people showed up last year to see Palm introduce webOS 1.4 while just 113,000 booked a ticket to Las Vegas for CES 2009.
CES 2012 will officially be held January 10th through 13th. The press events will start on the 8th or 9th. The show is still slated to be held in Las Vegas, so I’ll see you on the poker table.
Kevin Rose Says iPad Due February 1st
Digg founder Kevin Rose claims he has it on good authority that iPad 2 will be announced in 3-4 weeks, possibly February 1, and include dual cameras as well as a “higher dpi”, but not technically a retina display.
Dual cameras seem almost certain given how Apple is pushing FaceTime (and given our video hands-on with the dummy iPad 2 at CES). Retina Display though? We’ve been over that before but just to recap…
The current iPad is 1024 x 768. Apple needs to double that in both directions to go Retina, which would make 2048 x 1536. At 9.7-inches. That’s more pixels than Apple’s 27-inch LED cinema display at a fraction of the size. Even if LG or whomever could crank out those panels, the cost would almost certainly be prohibitive. And if Apple tries to do anything other than double the resolution, current apps would either look terrible when stretched or would have UI elements shrunken below the point of usability by boxing.
