History of CES

First CES held in New York City in June of 1967 with 200 exhibitors and 17,500 attendees.This has been great inspiration of the electronic manufactures and distributors.

The following products made its first appearance in the Consumer electronics show

1970 – Videocassette Recorder (VCR)
1974 – Laser Disc Player,
1981 – Camcorder,
1981 – Compact Disc Player,
1990 – Digital Audio Technology,
1991 – Compact Disc – Interactive,
1993 – Mini Disc,
1993 – Radio Data System,
1994 – Digital Satellite System,
1996 – Digital Versatile Disk (DVD),
1998 – High Definition Television (HDTV),
1999 – Hard-disc VCR (PVR),
2000 – Digital Audio Radio (DAR),
2001 – Microsoft Xbox,
2001 – Plasma TV,
2002 – Home Media Server,
2003 – HD Radio,
2003 – Blu-Ray DVD,
2003 – HDTV PVR,
2004 – HD Radio,
2005 – IP TV,
2006 – An explosion of digital content services,
2007 – New convergence of content and technology,
2008 – OLED TV.

CES 2010 between Jan 7th to Jan 10th of 2010

This year started with great excitement by the 3D movie Avatar ,which has tuned the viewers interest in 3D Television.CES 2010 has also gained viewers interest by launching 3D television. the 2010 Best of CES award was given to the Panasonic TC-PVT25 3D television series.

With the growing interest and demand for the amazon Kindle,This year CES 2010 has got a lot new e-reader’s introduced the in market.

There was a great struggle in the auto industry,Yet to gain the viewers interest most the automobile companies trying their best to improve the in-vehicle technology.Having all your favorites displayed in the dashboard is also a main theme in CES 2010. Toyota Prius featuring its own LTE data connection. A broadband connection enables many features including our tunes of Pandora.

Touch screen,There is big crowd anxiously waiting to know about the tablet or slate .The year ahead will have more products from major consumer tech companies which is coming out with portable,touch-screen and social friendly device called tablet.It will be much compatible than laptop and more user friendly than a smart phone.E-reader’s products will also have great impact due to the evolution of the tablet PC.

Lets also look at the award winning product and my favorite

Watch this space for more products debuted in CES 2010.

James Cameron has created a planet named Pandora which is rich in flora and fauna in the silver screen.Apart from the creatures,the planet has the native

Na’vi a lean, 10-feet tall,3 fingered, blue-striped people with green eyes.Natives also makes a strong bond with thick long trees,six-legged horses and powerful flying beast .Cameron has designed the planet in such way that not only the tribes but the also creatures like gigantic Wolves and hammer-head dinosaurs fights to save their habitability.

Epic Theme

The sci-epic is set on Pandora,genetically engineered human-Na’vi bodies are sent to the planet to drive away the native Na’vi with aims to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a valuable mineral called unobtanium, which is under the HomeTree of Pandora.Over the course of time in Pandora, human-navi grows close to Neytiri(Na’vi girl) and the HomeTree and begins to prefer the life he lives through the avatar.Finally he saves the na’vi and planet reserve from the money minded humans.

Technology in filming and effects

Cameron has developed stereoscopic camera for the creation of Avatar.In the previous motion-capture systems, the digital environment is added after the actors’ motions have been captured.

In Avatar, this new virtual camera allows the director to observe and view directly on a monitor how the actors’ virtual counterparts interact with the movie’s digital world in real time which gives option of adjusting and re-take the scenes as needed.

Avatar a sensational honeymoon between the world finest artist and technology.it has also revolutionised the movie-watching experience in screens.It’s really mixed with action,animation,adventure and emotion.

For the years to come its definitely a milestone for the movies to achieve in future.”I SEE YOU” …AVATAR

Animation Techniques of Avatar

if your inspired Pandora’s “floating Mountains” inside the clouds,well you will like to catch the glimpse of the Chinese Huang Shan mountains also.

You must be seeing a full winter moon in the sky today which is the 13Th moon of the year 2009.Hence it is so called a blue moon today.

Why it is so called Blue Moon?
Simple every year will have 12 full moons(One full moon each month) but we are having the 13th moon this year and it occurs rarely.

In the year with blue moon I have started blogging and I was able to make 55 articles which has reached

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Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous year 2010 !!!

The name “Google” is a play on the word “googol,” Which means a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Google as a search-engine it organise infinite number of results from the web.Lets have a look at the video that gives quick view of the google milestones.Its story of search engine to an operating system.

Also,its really great fun and inspiration to read the story about google

The Google Story: For Google’s 10th Birthday

Google story till 2009 was good and let see whats new coming up in 2010.

Technology has grown to great extent; you do not have time to visit your friends and dear ones. What if someone alerts you that “your school friend has landed in the city you live”? Yes Google Latitude does that.

Google has started its location-based services, which lets you to see and share your friend’s location on Google Maps. Google Latitude helps you to stay in touch with friends, or to track your loved ones get home safely.

Google Latitude Location History

Travel lovers will really love to have the visited place stored in Google maps. Enable Google Location History to store and manage your past visited locations on Google Maps. In your convenience you can also delete a portion or entire history.

Location history can be enabled using the following link.

Google Latitude Location Alert

Enable Google Location Alert, it will send the notification every time when friends are near each other. Your past location history is noted to recognize your routine locations which will avoid sending notification to your latitude friends.

What if your alerted every time for the your roommate or co-workers?
Do’nt forget to enable your location history, which will prevent alerting every-time for the roommates or co-workers.

Google Latitude is really wonderful service which should be enabled when you’re new to the city or when you feel the neighborhood is not safe. Its better check your neighborhood safety before visiting the new place.

Demo Google Latitude

Photography and Internet has been taken to next dream level by technology.Here is a web technology that shows the near future’s richness in screen resolution and screen redraw.

Photosynth is a software that could change the way you look at digital images. It allows a bunch of similar photos of the same scene to automatically synchronize to reconstruct a interactive 3d view.Yes reconstructing the 3D view from the static photographs taken around the world.

Today ,We have the technology!! that challenges you that you have never seen a graphics like this before.

How it works

Photosynth examines pictures for similarities first and Seadragon technology browse through photos effortlessly, makes a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load seamlessly.

Who did this
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth. Later this software was taken over by Microsoft .If this would have reached the hands of Apple to work with Mac book , it would have reached a great levels.

Here is the demo given by Blaise Aguera in TED Talk

Recently iTwinge was introduced to get the feel of physical keyboard for the people who had trouble in typing the emails or people with fat fingers and women’s with long nails. This has greatly reduced the typing error. Still iphone users were not comfortable with the keyboard to type long mails.

Finally Dragon NaturallySpeaking has developed an iPhone app that allows converting your Speech-To-text. No need to type and strain your fingers all you need to is talk and application will convert them into text. You’re also given option to edit the text with keyboard if need, it can also copy the text and paste for the new mail or text message if needed. if your have trouble in using the iphone keyboard, Dragon Dictation is your dream app.

Having downloaded the latest version of iPhone 3.1 OS, will have complete support of Dragon Dictation, It’s a free app for your fingers, the company says free for limited time only. Grab it.

iPod Touch users keep yourself away, it’s not for you. Overall all its a rocking apps which makes the magic with your voice.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.1 is compatible with Windows which is available for you to use with your computer or laptop. It also supports Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Advantages of Dragon Dictation
1. Reduce the typo mistakes and
2. Reduce the time taken to transfer the ideas or speech into text.
3. No Need to type and strain your fingers
4. Recording stops after 30 seconds to convert your voice into text.No problem start recording again.

Lets have a look at the demo

Smartphones and portable devices are elements of communication, which are becoming a part of daily life.I could see the people hands are keen scratching their favourite widget to play the games or to get information,Losing their smart phone or widget makes their spine chill.Yes its again technology which helps them to trace it back.

How to recover a lost or stolen iPhone or iPod Touch ?
Undercover is a theft-recovery app which works for iPhone,iPod Touch or in Mac book.It claims it as the first iPhone app that provides push notifications to track and locate your stolen gadget.

How does undercover works?
Install undercover iPhone app via apple store and register your details in https://www.undercovercenter.com

Every time you launch the undercover apps,your phone’s location and IP information is recorded in your online account,later you can log in to trace the device.

Push notifications,It has an intelligent option which allows you to remotely launch Undercover on the stolen iPhone in order to track the thief’s location.

Undercover can also reacts handy when your iPhone is lost,you can set a message for the finder, the phone will ring and Undercover will display the alert on top of any application that might be running. When the finder views this message, Undercover will transmit your phone’s location online.

If your iPhone is stolen, Undercover will pretend to be a game. This will also encourage the thief to wait a few seconds for the game to load, enabling Undercover to get accurate location information. This location information is then added to your account and transmitted to the police station where you reported the theft.

clever thieves and crooks always seem to be one step ahead of the corporate programmers.

What if the app is removed by the iPhone-lifter?
some techie-thief who might even try to remove the undercover apps from the iPhone, default helper apps can still locate a lost or stolen device.

Undercover gives money-back grantee,if installed and the stolen devices is not tracked.Its worth spending 4.99 USD to protect your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Highlights
1.Tracking of your iPhone location is done with Google maps.
2.Push notifications to track and locate your stolen phone.
3.Post each and every movement of the location of gadget.

A Quick demo to trace your lost or stolen iPhone

Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

If your the one who live your lives online, and who wants do everything on the go,then Google chrome OS will be of your best choice.On an average any OS will take take 60-100 seconds(mine will take 2mins) to load the necessary files .Chrome OS loads up in just 4 seconds and Google aims, to turn your PC into a TV, which should instantly turn on and you can start to work on your likes.

Hype for “cloud computing,” is very high recent days,google has already tasted the success of cloud computing in google mail(First implemented in Gmail) and Google chrome is structured to work with the same cloud computing concept.

Chrome OS loading time highly reduced and also designed with the assumption 90% of the time in spend in the laptop on checking mails,use social networking sites (Facebook and Twitter), trace the maps and so on.

Chrome OS is a smart way for Google to push forward to gain the vendors,who are also limited to use components that google specifies and supports.Google will support,control and maintain the operating system remotely,so offline capabilities of the laptop might be limited.Google is also working to support the offline access(already done for gmail) with google gears and HTML 5.

Finally,Google promises that chrome OS with netbook will provide richer,faster and secure experience of web-based computing.

Pros of Chrome OS
1.It gives an auto-update service to the OS.
2.Data will be cached in netbooks for off-line access, it’s all encrypted.
3.No worries on OS crash,simple everything is stored online.
4.light weight web-based computing.
5.Users burden is greatly reduced.

Cons of Chrome OS
1.Simply installing your own software isn’t allowed.
2.Control and maintains the operating system is done remotely,by google.
3.OS will have a limitation to offline capabilities ,google is working to achieve this.

You can download the latest version of Operating System for a preview.

what is google chrome os ?