Here's what you
really need to see
from CES
March 2014
Las Vegas
International CES, more commonly known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), is an
internationally renowned electronics and technology trade show, attracting major
companies and industry professionals worldwide. The annual show is held each January at
the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The first CES was held
in June 1967 in New York City, since then CES is organized every year and this time it was
organized from Jan 7 to Jan 10 2014.
Lets have a look on major unveils this year in CES.
The first Li-Fi smartphone prototype was presented at the Consumer
Electronics Show. The phone uses SunPartner's Wysips CONNECT, a technique
that converts light waves into usable energy, making the phone capable of
receiving and decoding signals without drawing on its battery. The phone also
has a transparent photovoltaic screen that lets light recharge the phone.
Li-Fi, or light fidelity, refers to 5G visible light communication systems using
light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a medium to deliver networked,
mobile, high-speed communication in a similar manner as Wi-Fi and Optical
fiber.
Li-Fi
Pilot Driving
Audi A7 demonstrates its autonomous vehicle technology called piloted driving. Its driving technology is still
under development, push a button, then take hands off the wheel. The car uses its forward-looking radars
and laser to "see" traffic ahead, a windshield-mounted camera to monitor the lane lines, and rear radar to
detect cars coming up on either side.
The technology, designed to give drivers a break when traffic is moving less than 40 mph, kept the A7 at a
set distance from the car ahead and evenly between its two lane lines.
Augmented Reality
Lumus DK40 smart glasses are your personal HUD (head up display).
Lumus DK40 is a frame that has more than a passing resemblance to Google Glass. In addition it does project
information on a surface with a crystal clear image. Besides this rather than looking at a semi-blurry square
image, Lumus' smart frames cast a blue image of any shape in the center of the field of vision for your right eye.
Most important difference between the Lumus DK40 and others, apart from using actual glass lenses, is that
thereās no fat cube of a beam splitter, or awkward separate projector screen. Though they appear striped when
you look at them, your eye glues them together to form a cohesive image.
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