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Fitness trackers are a dime a dozen, and it’s incredibly hard to stand out, especially somewhere like CES. The company Zensorium showed off a new product, Being, which is a product and service with a difference. They take the data created from monitoring your activity and turn it into...
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After covering the Consumer Electronics Show for years remotely did nothing to prepare me for the immense scale of the event. You hear others suggest it’s big, but the biggest trade show on the planet is on a scale you can’t comprehend. CES 2015 was the largest show in...
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As technology surges forward with violent force, there’s a few casualties along the way. Over the years we’ve seen many media types disappear and be replaced by technically superior alternatives. CDs were outclassed by the storage size of DVDs, and when we hit the limits of size on DVDs,...
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MakerBot is arguably the “biggest” name in consumer-grade 3D Printers, and at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show they have come to the party in a huge way after announcing a new line of filament. Dubbed Composite PLA, these four new flavours of filament will allow makers to create more beautiful and...
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TRW is a parts company that manufacturers for both auto makers and the aftermarket. This year they brought a full sized transparent car. The full plastic vehicle is complete with working doors, so you can sit inside it. Let me tell you, it’s a bizarre experience to see through...
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SAP is a software solutions company and they’ve just learned a new trick. At CES 2015, they’re showing off a new prototype that analyses video footage of sporting events to automatically create player, team and game statistics. Currently the stats we see from sporting events are done by a...
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Not sure you can include Tesla as one of the 10 auto manufacturers at CES, but their car is here. The unreleased Model X is a SUV with crazy gull wing doors that isn’t expected on the road until 2016. The all-wheel drive Model X will come with dual...
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Panasonic’s booth features plenty of neat gadgets at CES 2015, including plenty of displays. One feature is a 4K touchscreen, but the real standout was a black room with a cue. After cueing up for about 10 minutes, we were let into a relatively small room. The room had...
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This morning Mark Fields, CEO of Ford Motor Company, delivered his first keynote address at CES. He reflected on the company’s original vision to democratise transportation and the company has been successful in that objective. But what does that mean for Ford in 2015? Ford are now embarking on...
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Not content with being a graphics manufacturer, Nvidia turned their attention to moible and are now looking at the car with laser focus. At CES 2015, Nvidia predicted the number of pixels inside are car will dramatically grow from around 780,000 last year, to more than 20 Million by...
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After a few years of smart lights thanks to LIFX and Hue, the next evolution is here. At CES 2015, OpenHome are showing off 4 new bulbs with a variety of features. Bulbs are definitely coming in different sizes to suit your needs, or just your tastes. The standout...
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At their CES 2015 press conference this morning Sharp showcased a range of new displays. With everyone talking about 4K, it’s hard to stand out, but Sharp just did. Their ‘Beyond 4K’ display will be the highest resolution commercially available display in 2015. This display isn’t technically 8K in...
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Our current displays are basically all in the rectangles in shape, but Sharp says it doesn’t have to be that way. At CES2015 this morning they announced they’ve been able to create displays in an almost limitless configuration. The example they showed on stage was a vehicle display cluster....
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XYZ Printing is a company that’s experiencing in the traditional 3D plastic-based printers. But they’re now turning their attention to 3D Printers that print food. On show at CES 2015 is a near-ready production prototype of a 3D Food Printer. This was one of the most ferocious booths at...
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Google have added 4K, they’ve added 3D and today we have confirmed they will be adding 360 video to YouTube. The announcement came from 360 degree camera maker Giroptic. They claim to have ‘the world’s first ture 360 degree HD camera’. Given there’s others who have created 360 cameras,...
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Snowboarders get ready, your board is about to get a whole lot smarter. Cerevo launched the XON SNOW-1 at CES Unveiled tonight and the board will ship later in 2015. Learning to snowboard a painful experience, you’re going to fall down, a lot. Even once you get comfortable with...
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Westinghouse may be a brand name you relate more to dishwashers and washing machines in Australia, but in America, they also make displays. Their first curved display is a gaming focused monitor that’s a massive 34” in size. Beside it sat a 4K TV, which was very deliberately flat....
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Naturally drones were going to make an appearance at CES, but there was a surprise from one of the largest makers DJI. The company is well known for their uber popular DJI Phantom which is famous for it’s camera mount, that allows the camera to rotate, which allows for...
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Not content with drones and cars, Parrot are really turning their heads to making smart things to improve your life. Imagine you have a seriously nice plant, but don’t exactly have green thumbs, you’ll likely neglect it. Without the proper inputs like water, plants will inevitably die. Well that...
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The company that is known for creating drones, Parrot, is diversifying in a big way. They’re now building a double-din sized head unit with a 7” multi-touch display. Known as RNB6, sexy name right.. which runs an infotainment system based on Android 5.0 Lollipop. The system supports Google Android...
At their CES 2015 press conference this morning Sharp showcased a range of new displays. With everyone talking about 4K, it’s hard to stand out, but Sharp just did. Their ‘Beyond 4K’ display will be the highest resolution commercially available display in 2015. This display isn’t technically 8K in...
Naturally drones were going to make an appearance at CES, but there was a surprise from one of the largest makers DJI. The company is well known for their uber popular DJI Phantom which is famous for it’s camera mount, that allows the camera to rotate, which allows for...
