Techspirit March 2014 Volume 1 | Page 3

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 thereā€˜s 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. Techspirit | 3