One of the more unfortunate post-MHz war repercussions was the empowerment of number-loving marketing folks to name product lines however they damn well pleased.
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Today NXP stole Brett Favre’s cell phone, unzipped, and snapped some quick pics of their new 0.9×1.0x0.35mm logic packages and leaked them to the press.
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Despite the many gadget and tech sites who were dancing about half-sober, clamoring over a spectacular CES show fraught with innovation, I’m going to go ahead and take a different stand. There were intriguing bits to be sure, but overall I left with the opinion that the gadgets in Vegas might as well stay in Vegas this year. Herein I will break down what I felt were the top ten highlights, and the top ten low points at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, just be warned that these are my opinions and don’t necessarily reflect the views of others at S|A or other sentient life forms in general.
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Talk about a wild start to the week. Between the Intel/Nvidia settlement, Verizon’s announcement to flog Apple kit, recovering from a week in Vegas at CES, and now Dirk Meyer’s abrupt departure from AMD the tech press has been without sleep for quite some time. With the industry in such a chaotic state it can be hard to see what the future holds for all these companies, so let us peer into S|A’s patent pending crystal ball to see what’s in store for AMD.
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One of the oft passed by booths at CES was held down by Alcatel-Lucent, a purveyor of equipment sold primarily to telecom companies and cable providers. They were however showing off a conceptual technology that demonstrates some interesting ways to utilize all that sweet, sweet bandwidth provided by new “4G” phone technologies, specifically LTE.
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Motorola has demoed some really cool android-based products at CES this year; from the Honeycomb packing, Tegra2 powered Xoom tablet, to their potentially game changing Atrix phoneputer. These products largely gloss over the turd they call the HS1001 cordless home phone, but it looked out of place enough that we had to stop by and stare at the train wreck.
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Nestled in a dimly lit corner of the AMD suite was a start-up company called Nuvixa. While much of the suite’s floor space was dedicated to pimping out fusion-based laptops and 6000 series video cards, Nuvixa was showing off some tech that can actually put all that compute goodness to practical use. Enter the presenter.
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It’s hard to believe that OnLive launched a little over 6 months ago in June of 2010. Well they are still around, and have launched a few new products along the way including an announcement that they have partnered with Vizio to include their software inside of certain newly released “VIA Plus” series TV sets. We stopped by their booth to see how the second half of 2010 treated them, and what they are focusing on going forward.
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Victorinox had an impressive spread of pocket knives on display, nearly all of them containing one or more flash memory sticks of some sort. The Belle of the Ball however had to be the unreleased “Presentation Master” knife/biometric protected flash drive/Bluetooth Power Point slide advancer/laser pointer/nail file/screw driver/scissors/owner of my heart.
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File this one in the WTF folder. Toshiba managed to pique our interest with an ingenious, yet slightly crazy/useless display gimmick. An SSD board was mounted inside of a fish bowl, mostly submerged in ordinary water (made slightly alcoholic once everyone’s back was turned,) and was booted from on a computer next to the tank. Utterly useless? Yes. Attention getting? Yes. Can you do this at home? Yes (just don’t send us the repair bill.)
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Lock maker and home security outfit Yale have unleashed their newest creation on the unsuspecting home automation masses. Deadbolt door locks with multi-touch gesture input, and internet connectivity so you can lock your kid in his room from anywhere in the world.
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Kingston Technology is generally known among the community as a solid provider of all things memory. From desktop DIMMs to SD cards, they’ve got you covered and now they are putting the finishing touches on a nifty piece of kit that is bound to turn some heads and make its competitors stand up and take notice.
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Cisco predicts that by the year 2014 no less than 90% of all internet traffic will be video related and they certainly want a larger piece of that action. Through acquisitions of companies over the years like Flip Video, Linksys, and Umi they are hoping to make a major play for screen time on basically every electronic device you own.
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Seagate is spearheading a new initiative in conjunction with the SATA IO Commission to bring sanity to the SATA interface and allow for mass storage devices that can be quickly swapped between devices such as PCs, DVRs, or docking stations. This initiative is called USM, or Universal Storage Module, and Seagate hopes to make this acronym as ubiquitous as USB in the near future.
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Toshiba was showing off their latest and greatest in television technologies at CES, and among them was a set that had integrated Skype video calling functionality. Time to start decorating your living room like your favorite starship bridge and practicing captains catch phrases.
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