It’s been a bit difficult to get posts out when you’re spending eight hours a day in meetings or walking the floor and some more detailed posts will follow. But some quick bullets to provide the flavor of what I am encountering:
How do you want your TV? 150″ on the diagonal or as thin as 3 mm. While Panasonic draws crowds for its large plasma screen, Sony has been drawing attention for its OLED 27″ prototype showing HD images on a 27″ panel that is about 3 mm thick (shown on right). Other vendors, including Panasonic and Hitachi, have been featuring light weight, “thin” TV’s down to about 1.0″ thick.- And wires in the home will gradually disappear.. In addition to many devices, including a forthcoming version of the PC-Free Ipevo SOLO Skype desktop phone, using WiFi, there are wireless remote systems for eliminating the bird’s nest of wires that can aggregate around your home theatre system. (And the thin TV’s almost require them.) Panasonic’s wireless control system even bounces off the wall or ceiling if you interrupt the direct beam.
- Nuance, whose retail awareness include products that I use regularly such as PaperPort for scanned document management, OmniPage for scanned text recognition and Dragon Naturally Speaking for voice recognition, has built up a significant OEM and professional services business through recent acquisitions of Tegic Communications, licensor of the T9 keypads common to most mobile phones worldwide, Dictaphone with all its medical dictations services and IVR vendor BeVocal . Nuance’s speech recognition and mobile search technology is becoming embedded not only into mobile phones (for example, the Voice Dialing application on your Blackberry) but also GPS navigation systems and other mobile devices that can benefit from speech recognition. As their technology portfolio will have an impact on many future communications devices, a more complete post will follow.
In my next post I will cover the Skype presence on the exhibit floor. Meantime my legs need a rest.
Tags: CES 2008, Sony, Panasonic, Iprevo, Nuance, Sony OLED
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