The second week of January is a special time for consumer electronics industry. This is when International CES, the largest trade show of its kind, rolls into Las Vegas with about 150,000 people, of which 6,000 or so are engineers. If you've attended this spectacle in recent years, you probably listened to Bill Gates of Microsoft give the pre-show keynote on a Sunday night at the Venetian hotel. But a couple of things have changed this year...
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CES 2009 VIDEO COVERAGE
Epson Dr. Goro Hamagishi, General Manager of the Display Development Center at Epson, shows a 3-D display for handhelds. View this video.
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Microvision Microvision's Russell Hannigan, Director of Production Management, demos the company's pico projector and talks about the module that makes the projector go. View this video.
GestureTek Francis MacDougall, CTO/Co-Founder of GestureTek, shows off technology that uses hand gestures for gaming, mouse movement and other functions. View this video.
AMD Ogi Brkic, Sr. Product Marketing Mgr. for the Graphics Products Group at AMD, discusses the new ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series, while Scott Thieret, Technology Director for GPU Computing at Mercury Computer Systems, shows the company's new 1-teraflop board. View this video.
Fresco Microchip John Tryhub, VP Product Marketing at Fresco Microchip, explains how the FM1150 chip works with traditional can tuners for HDTVs. View this video.
Hillcrest Labs Daniel S. Simpkins, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Hillcrest Labs, talks about the company’s HoME platform and Freespace pointing technology. View this video.
CSR Matthew Phillips, Senior VP, Mobile Handset Connectivity Management at CSR, explains the company’s MusiCore platform. View this video.
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Analog Devices Gerry McGuire, Vice President of General Purpose DSP at Analog Devices, talks about the latest additions to the Blackfin family of processors. View this video.
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Analog Devices Gerry McGuire, Vice President of General Purpose DSP at Analog Devices, talks about the SHARC family of processors. View this video.
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Sensio Daniel Robidoux, Director of Product Development at Sensio, shows Sensio’s 3D and 2D-to-3D applications. View this video.
Intersil Dave Bell, President and CEO of Intersil, talks about the recent acquisition of D2Audio, while Skip Taylor, Director of D2Audio Technology, discusses the new features of the DAE-4, the company's fourth generation digital audio engine. View this video.
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ZigBee Alliance Tobin Richardson, Director of the Smart Energy Initiative at the ZigBee Alliance, shows how energy meters and thermostats will be controlled via ZigBee. View this video.
Broadcom Broadcom had a range of new products on display at CES including IPTV and DLNA support. This is a preview of things to come. View this video.
NXT James Bullen, Sales and Marketing Director at NXT Design & Development, demos netbook speakers based on flat panel loudspeaker technology. View this video.
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Alticast Jeff Bonin, Vice President & General Manager of middleware provider Alticast, discusses Blu-Ray/Yahoo! widgets integration built on the new Intel CE 3100 chipset. View this video.
M/A-COM Technology Scott A. Nist, Strategic Manager for Automotive at M/A-COM Technology, shows off a new automotive antenna and GPS system that incorporates vechicle data as feedback to improve GPS performance. View this video.
Zpower Ross E. Dueber, Ph.D., President & CEO of Zpower,, gives an update on his company's Silver Zinc battery technology. View this video.
Bug Labs Peter Semmelhack, President & CEO of Bug Labs, talks about five new modules for the Bug Labs modular prototyping system. View this video.
FLIR Andrew Teich, President of Commercial Vision Systems at FLIR, gives a demo of the company's thermal imaging cameras. View this video.
Texas Instruments Jim Buckler, Business Development Manager for Emerging Markets at Texas Instrument, updates us on the company's DLP-based pico projectors. View this video.
Green Plug Green Plug's Frank Paniagua, Founder and CEO, and Parag Mody, Director of Hardware Engineering, update us on the company's progress. View this video.
Qualcomm Anita Hix, Staff Manager for Marketing at Qualcomm, talks about the Snapdragon chipset and shows off a reference platform and prototype. View this video.
Nuance Peter Mahoney, Senior VP and general manager at Nuance, discusses voice recognition on entry level cell phones and shows a neat iPhone app. View this video.
Freescale Semiconductor Glen Burchers, Director of Worldwide Marketing at Freescale Semiconductor, discusses the advantages of the iMX51 processor in Linux-based netbooks. View this video.
Fulton Innovation David W. Baarman, Director of Advanced Technologies at Fulton Innovation, discusses eCoupled technology and demonstrates wireless power at work. View this video.
CopperGate Michael Weissman, VP Marketing North America at CopperGate, a fabless semiconductor company, talks about the company's modem chipset and home networking solutions for IPTV. View this video.
The reality of wireless power was demonstrated last week at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Fulton Innovation, creator of eCoupled wireless power technology, announced its latest partnerships and showcased some eCoupled-powered devices.
The new dual-core Snapdragon from Qualcomm is a single-chip processor that targets more advanced mobile computing devices. The QSD8672 chip, announced at CES 2009, features two computing cores capable of up to 1.5-GHz operation, optimized battery life, and a full range of 3G mobile broadband and peripheral connectivity capabilities.
In this case, BUG isn’t a pest, but a collection of electronic modules from Bug Labs that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Introduced at CES 2009, each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (for example, a camera, a keyboard, or a video output). Users decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest. With BUG and the Linux-based integrated programming environment, anyone can build, program, and share innovative devices and applications.
Synaptics Inc.’s new suite of multi-finger gestures and larger TouchPads, announced at CES 2009, provide users with an intuitive way to interact with their notebook systems. The Gesture Suite 2009 (SGS) was developed by analyzing common workflows, such as viewing photos, listening to music, and accessing emails and presentations.
The FM1100, a family of worldwide legacy audio/video demodulators and multi-standard digital IF processors for television broadcast reception, introduced at CES 2009 by Fresco Microchip, Inc., employs the company’s agileSP that includes four reception-enhancing technologies: WAVe, iSAW, perfectTUNE, and smartTUNE. The devices enable convergence of hybrid terrestrial and cable television broadcast reception globally.
