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.

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.

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

“Born night, Yes last night”,Barnes & Noble unveiled its e-reader Nook, which runs on Google’s Android hot cake operating system.Also mentioned, it would offer subscriptions to more than 20 newspapers major U.S. daily.

Nook definitely comes with great features which amazon tribal e-reader was missing.

1.LCD screen 3.5 inch,color touch screen,easy-to-read and filters glare or back light.
2.Built-in dictionary ,adjustable text size,Dual-screen and comfort in reading hours together.
3.Built-in 2GB to store 1,500 books and magazines.
4.External memory card can save up to 17,500 books.
5.virtual bookmark to bring the last read page.
6.Read in multiple devices – iPhone, PC or MAC.
7.PDF support,EPUB and eReader Formats and image files(JPEG,GIF,PNG,BMP).
8.Audio enabled,MP3 support and built-in mono speaker.

Integration aspect with Barnes & Noble’s retail stores,making your presence inside the store with the device gives special discount and option of reading the entire e-books for free.

“On hand library”,Using free eReader software, you can connect to your iPhone, iPod touch or Blackberry,PC or laptop.

“Only your friends steal your books” — Not necessary they can from e-reader

LendMe™ technology works on single license,by which you will be able to loan the books to your friends(Only one person can read at a time,like sharing physical book) through any WiFi enabled device.

Rechargeable battery advantage to charge via USB or power adapter.Barnes & Noble also admits the Kindle has a better battery.

Nook also joins the paper-free green society,with price a of $260(Kindle 2 same price) and wide availability of physical store Nook is fully equipped to challenge the e-reader’s market.

With great infra-structures in the surrounding, technology of your dreams(wireless electricity), Internet with information you are yet to achieve something.

William a half-starved uneducated boy,born in a country tormented with drought, poverty, disease, famine,very low expectations from a corrupted government and subverted leaders. All this, he broke through poverty and not only helped his family, but the entire village. Altogether,he is an achiever of nothing shorter of monumental.

William Kamkwamba is an African dynamo from Malawi who never heard the word google has built an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap.Being a school dropout and working in rough plans he was able to find a library book called Using Energy,by which he made his machine which generates power for his family home.

“I looked at my father and I looked at the dry fields it was the future which i could not accpect” – William Kamkwamba

“To encourage myself, I would look at the picture of the windmill in the book, and I would tell myself, “Somewhere, someone did this thing. If somebody did this thing, I can also do it.” Even then, with people saying I was crazy, I’d say, “OK, say what you’re going to say, but I’m still going to do this thing.” I would not accept to stop doing this thing because of what people were saying.” — TED interview

William Kamkwamba had been here in USA for promoting his book ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind ‘ which he co-authored with Bryan Mealer.

He is a great inspiration for young achievers and you can also have a look at his vision blogged here. He is also pursing his graduation in electrical engineering and you can follow his steps in twitter

Congratulations Mr.William Kamkwamba !!!

Eric Giler is man with source of admiration, who is evidencing the hard work and commitment his team had to deliver electricity without wires. Finally you can charge your mobile phones, laptop etc wirelessly and dream of “Wireless world” is not very far.

WiTricity, stands for wireless electricity.It’s a new technology of coupling between electromagnetic resonant objects to transfer energy wirelessly.A method to transfer electric power through the air to charge your electronic device.Next generation electric cars in your garage may be charged wirelessly.

WiTricity may help us to save over $1 trillion in infrastructure and more than 40 billion disposable batteries every year.

Demo given will charge the flat panel television wirelessly,T-Mobile G1 and Apple iPhone. Having WiFi and WiTricity might gain the remote access to the whole house very soon.

Having a child around is a great fun. The way he/she learns and the way it grows is far ahead of technology. Analyst have proved that, a child can learn 15 different languages with in it’s 3rd birthday.

Parents should start teaching sign language at very early stage, this can improve the child’s memory and the way of communication also.

3 months old, signaling parents for a diaper change.
5 months old, when needed help with something.
8 months old, ask clearly and politely for more milk.

Its mainly depends on the nutrition and how parents tweet the child. Its also truth that 99% of the children’s will respond to good music. There is a video which just happened to bring smile from any tough face, a baby dancing to the tuned ladies in screen. Awesome!!!