[guide.chat] new gadgets on sale
- From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:35:55 -0000
If you're a ?Star Trek? fan then you'll appreciate that when the show was first
made, it was ahead of its time in the technology used by Captain Kirk and the
crew of the USS Enterprise.
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a £6.5m prize was
offered to anyone who can create a Star Trek-style medical "tricorder", a high
tech data recorder well remembered from the iconic show. Sponsors Qualcomm want
someone to create a gadget that can measure and capture a person's health
statistics and diagnose a set of 15 diseases.
It's certainly the stuff of the future but the showfloor of the Consumer
Electronics Show was also filled with cinematic-style technology that has
actually come to fruition. Here's five of the best:
Ford chairman Alan Mulally explains the Sync technology.
Ford Sync
Ford's Sync and MyKey technology was first unveiled last year but it's really
moving on a pace in a bid to turn our motors into the equivalent of K.I.T.T.
from ?Knight Rider?. It may not provide a Turbo Boost to escape the traffic
jams but as well as allowing parents to limit the speed their kids can drive
and connecting the audio system to voice control, you'll now get apps too.
Ford have said in-car technology is vastly upgradeable through new software
updates ad owners can be sent USB keys with a download on them for ease and
simplicity. Whether syncing devices with Bluetooth, Auto Parking or being sent
data from the office to your dashboard, the next few years of in-car technology
look very exciting indeed.
Samsung SUR40
The SUR40 is a table working Microsoft Surface technology to turn the top into
a touch-controlled computer displayed on a 1080p 40 inch LCD screen. Microsoft
Surface looks like cutting edge ?Minority Report?-like technology but is
nothing new as it is already in use by a range of governments and other
organisations.
The SUR40 is handsomely priced at around £8,000 but if they could just squeeze
that down to a couple of grand for a smaller version, just think of the fun to
be had indoors. Could the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show be the one to showcase
an everyday coffee table accessible to many of us for the right price?
Vuzix teams up with Nokia for Terminator style AR glasses.
Vuzix AR Smart Glasses
Offering military-style holographic images in front of your face, these
monocular glasses are as close to ?Terminator? territory as we're likely to get
for now. Another version placed in a pair of sunglasses creates a heads-up
display of content while still allowing you to see the real world around you?
like lampposts or banana skins on pavements.
So whether you're watching videos or browsing the web or simply staking out
using night vision, watching where the eyes lead us is going to be a very
interesting journey indeed.
Samsung Transparent Smart Window
Now this one really gets the geek pulses racing. The Smart Window is just that,
a proper window that turns into a touchscreen display. In the ?Matrix Reloaded?
they only managed this in black and white in Zion. On one hand you can use it
to see out into the street while on the other you can instantly turn it into an
information device to display the latest weather, news or video with other apps
all controllable from your fingertips. And you'll be pleased to know Samsung
promise it can also be blanked out to provide privacy from the outside world.
Sony Smart Watch
From James Bond to Dick Tracy, a watch that can make calls has been a staple of
every single cinema spy. But despite a lot, and we mean a lot, of trying,
no-one has cracked a proper marketable version that works well and looks good.
LG had a go at it a few years back and failed miserably.
This Sony attempt has a very small screen but decent touch controls. It differs
from the norm as it has to connect to an existing mobile to work- it doesn't
contain a SIM card. You can sync wirelessly via an app to your handset to read
all your texts and reply. You can also make a call assuming you've connected a
Bluetooth headset to the, let's be fair, pretty ugly looking thing on your
wrist.
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