The PicoP Gen 2 HD laser display engine boasts 720p high-definition images and immersive displays up to 200-inches diagonal.
Its brightness ranges from 15 to 25 lumens.
MicroVision will make the technology available to OEMs for testing in Q1 2012.
The company is also demonstrating two new PicoMagic display applications: touch interactive and 3D displays.
The PicoMagic touch interactive display will allow users to interact with a projected image on any surface, instantly creating multi-user applications such as virtual whiteboards.
With PicoMagic 3D capabilities users will be able to experience 3D content from a small display device anywhere, anytime.
New York-based VoxLinc is demonstrating its AfterShokz bone conduction headset that transmits through the cheekbones – bypassing the eardrum so that the device is not in or covering your ears.
Ambient sound is unimpeded and eardrums are safe from loud sounds.
An iPhone version is available and allows conversations on the phone while monitoring the real world. Because they rest on the skin, even sharing is possible.
Extended use is easy since the comfort factor is high. They sound great and are light as a feather.
AfterShokz could be an ideal solution for use during production.
ESPN beamed the 3D feed of the BCS National Championship match-up between LSU and Alabama into the Hilton Theater Monday evening.
It was projected onto the big screen using Christie 3D projection, RealD polarizer technology, and Marchon EX3D premium eyewear.
The game and the commercials looked great on the big screen (at least to the Alabama fans).
This was ESPN’s 39th football game over two seasons presented in 3D. The production featured 11 3D cameras including a SkyCam, an Ultra Slo Motion camera and 3D Sony cameras on each goalpost.
ESPN 3D has a booth demonstration scheduled for Wednesday from 2-3 pm.
Intel has announced deals with Motorola Mobility and Lenovo to create phones and tablets powered by the Intel Atom family of chips.
At his keynote, Intel CEO Paul Otellini was joined by Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha to announce a “multi-year partnership” that would see phones and tablets hit the U.S. market in the second half of the year.
Otellini also shared the stage with Lenovo senior VP Liu Jun, who said his company would release an Atom-equipped Android phone, the K800, that will be sold in China during the second quarter.
The promised 8 hours of 4G talk time with standby time of 14 days make this a formidable package. A 10-inch Atom tablet will also be made available in that country.
Otellini talked up the Atom Z2460 platform, formerly known as “Medfield,” which was specifically designed for smartphones and tablets. It offers Wi-Di, a wireless technology that sends content from phones and tablets to TV screens.
Some are wondering how the Motorola venture will play out, given that Google — which in August announced plans to buy the company — has phone deals mainly with manufacturers that use chips made by ARM Holdings.
The presentation also included a demo of the upcoming 32nm Intel Atom SoC for tablets and hybrids running on Microsoft’s Windows 8, and news that Dell would be releasing its first ultrabook, the XPS 13, which features Intel’s Core i7 processor.
The Pentax Q is the world’s smallest and lightest interchangeable lens camera, according to the company.
It joins the growing lineup of point-and-shoot cameras at CES that are taking on SLR features, further blurring the line between professional and personal photography.
The 12.4MP Q is 3.9-inches long, 2.3-inches wide and 1.2-inches deep, shoots full 1080p video and has five types of attachable lenses including a fisheye lens for increased field of view.
The device also comes with a P-TTL flash with retractable pop-up extension to reduce red eye.
The camera features a micro HDMI port to facilitate instantaneous playback directly on most HDTVs.
The Q is available now for $749.95 and comes with one standard 47mm equivalent prime lens.
Slightly more than 750,000 households now have UltraViolet accounts, Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
Nineteen UltraViolet titles are now available, and DECE expects that more than 100 will be released during 2012.
Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. have already released UltraViolet content. Paramount Home Media Distribution will release UltraViolet-embedded “Paranormal Activity 3″ later this month.
In the first half of 2012, DECE will introduce its Common File Format for downloads.
Samsung revealed that its 2012 Smart Blu-ray player would allow consumers to upload their content to the UltraViolet cloud. Panasonic plans to support UltraViolet in select Blu-ray players and connected TVs.
UltraViolet launched in the UK in late December; international expansion will continue in 2012 into countries including Canada.
During the panel, it was revealed that Netflix is no longer a member of DECE. However, DECE has partnered with DEG to promote UltraViolet.
Amazon inked a deal with a studio to support UltraViolet but the studio was not named.
Motorola’s new 4G Droid Razr Maxx for Verizon is built for longevity, with 21 hours of talk time — or the streaming of eight movies — before the unit needs to be recharged.
The company unveiled the phone at CES, just hours before Intel announced Motorola as one of the first mobile providers that had agreed to use its Atom chip (however, the Droid Razr Maxx will not be using the Intel chip).
The 3300mAh battery just about doubles the industry average (roughly 1700-1900mAh).
At 8.99mm the Maxx is slightly thicker than the 7.11mm of the prior version.
Other specs remain largely unchanged: a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, dual-core 1.2GHz processor and Android Gingerbread 2.3.5 (upgradeable to Android’s next gen Ice Cream Sandwich).
Motorola is also touting Motocast, an app the company describes as a “personal cloud,” allowing mobile devices to access content on a home or work PC. Both the Droid Maxx and the Droid XY Board tablet feature Motocast. An IR transmitter on the Board enables it to control the television.
In August, Google announced its intent to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
Fremont, CA-based Optoma Technology is displaying a short-throw 3D projector designed for gaming.
The projector, the GT750E, uses active shutter technology to display 3D content at 720p, with an output of 3000 ANSI lumens.
A key feature of the projector its the spherical lens that gives it an extremely short throw, allowing it to project an image in excess of 180-inches in size from a distance of less than ten feet.
Additional features: DLP Link 120Hz display technology, 3000:1 contrast ratio, support of up to 2D or 3D 1080p resolution, built-in 10-watt speaker system.
“The key here is that we are allowing the customer to project real 3D content right from the coffee table,” said Nancy Beckmann, a spokesperson for the company.
Designed with gaming in mind, the projector is retailing for $799.
Philips is demonstrating a new remote control technology called uWand, which uses an interface that the company calls “remote touch.”
Combining accelerometers and infrared cameras, the remote allows users to interact with the screen simply by pointing, in an approach very similar to that of the gesture control tech used by the Nintendo Wii.
The model on display at CES also incorporates an integrated QWERTY keyboard on the back of the remote, allowing for a straightforward and intuitive text interface.
The pointing technology also allows users to interact with many popular mobile applications in a manner that is very similar to the touch interface for those apps on mobile devices.
The company says it intends to incorporate the technology into its own televisions, as well as licensing it to other manufacturers.
This full-featured interface could prove beneficial in the consumer adoption of smart TVs.
Hollywood-based MasterImage 3D unveiled a new technology that allows for glasses-free viewing of stereoscopic content on mobile devices.
The company is demonstrating a glasses-free HD 720 resolution 3D display for 4.3-inch smartphones and WUXGA 1920×1200 resolution 3D display for 10.1-inch tablets.
The technology relies on a proprietary “cell-matrix” parallax barrier, which the company claims allows for a wider viewing angle than existing glasses-free 3D technologies.
MasterImage’s parallax barrier is also switchable, allowing the device to be rotated between landscape and portrait modes.
The company is currently licensing the technology to several manufacturers, with the first devices using the technology expected to hit the market in the third quarter of 2012.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 chip makes its smart TV debut with Lenovo, whose senior VP Liu Jun emphasized the chip set’s speed for gaming. The unit will run on Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich and incorporate voice controls in the remote.
CEO Paul Jacobs also revealed in his keynote that the company is partnering with Microsoft to demonstrate pre-release Windows 8 devices using Snapdragon S4 processors with AT&T’s 4G LTE connectivity.
The offerings underscore what seems to be an advantage by robust and low-powered cell phone chips over more traditional PC processors (at a CES in which one of the major subplots is Qualcomm’s face-off with Intel).
Jacobs predicts mobile will become a $1.3 trillion industry and believes emerging markets will account for roughly half of all smartphones shipping by 2015.
New products also include an e-reader from Hanvon for the Chinese market that incorporates full-color video at 1024×768 and uses Mirasol display technology.
Qualcomm has teamed with Sesame Street Workshop to offer “augmented reality” technology Vuforia, with a tablet camera that “recognizes” designated 3D objects and populates them in 3D screen environments.
The keynote also included an impressive display of health-related devices, including a phone that displays a cardiogram onscreen when the user applies fingertips to two sensor pads — and an app that measures blood glucose in real time.
Qualcomm announced that in three years $10 million would be awarded to the developer of the best self-diagnosis medical tool.
During its press conference on Monday, DISH introduced Hopper, its new three-tuner satellite receiver capable of recording six live HD channels at the same time.
The receiver is the basis for DISH’s new PrimeTime Anytime feature that allows playback of any primetime show from ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS up to a week after it is first aired.
DISH also touted Hopper’s Wi-Fi capabilities and seamless Sling integration that will allow customers to view their recordings remotely on mobile devices.
The company cited a Nielsen study that indicates the average person spends 24 hours monthly watching content stored on their DVRs, compared to just 4 hours of watching TV online. More than half the programming stored in DVRs is primetime network shows.
The company is hoping to slice into Hulu’s market and mentioned that its advertising-free, same-day-viewing capabilities give it superiority over the popular streaming site.
Six months into his new job as CEO of DISH Network, Joe Clayton detailed the company’s new strategy at its CES press event Monday.
He emphasized that the beginning of this year marked a new era for DISH, complete with a new brand image, mascot, management team, partnerships, logs, services and promotions, website and advertising strategy.
DISH hopes to emulate the way cell phone companies have energized sales through uniquely tagged products like Droid, Razr, and Galaxy by upgrading their technology and giving the units shorter, more memorable names.
Their new base platform, Hopper, is 40 percent smaller than its competitors, uses the fastest CPU available for satellite receivers, has three tuners capable of recording live HD TV on six channels at the same time, and comes equipped with a 2TB hard drive as well as expansion options.
Their secondary platform, Joey, is more compact and does not come with a hard drive, but has the same processor and up to three of them can be used independently to play, pause and record live TV.
Part of the company’s new marketing strategy includes targeting families looking for wholesome entertainment as well as using its new partnership with Univision to attract Latino viewers.
DISH also announced it has revamped its satellite-based Internet offerings through a partnership with Viastat that can offer download speeds of up to 12MBPS and can be bundled with their TV programming for $79.99 a month.
AT&T announced at CES it would be the first to deliver 4G LTE Windows Phones, including the Nokia Lumia 900, expected in spring running Windows mobile 7.5.
Windows 8 is expected to be released sometime this year, but no date has been set.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was joined onstage at a Monday press conference by AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to talk up the phone that is expected to mark Nokia’s return to viability in the U.S. market.
“The whole push is to build a strong, third ecosystem in the smartphone market with a differentiated point of view,” Ballmer said, noting there are currently about 50,000 Windows Phone apps on the market.
CNN, ESPN, Univision and “Sesame Street” are among the content providers that have partnered with Nokia as it strives to offer customers a rich user experience. “We’re not just building phones, we’re building content ecosystems,” Elop said.
Elop touted as significant the mobile apps associated with CNN’s iReport, “the largest citizen journalism network in the world, with 1 million registered users and more than 1,800 field missives filed last year.”
Nokia will also be making a 4G LTE Windows phone for T-Mobile.
From a 5.5-pound, 20-inch portable LCD TV that runs on batteries — to an 8K home cinema super-screen that offers 16x the resolution of HD, Sharp heads into its 100th anniversary year with guns loaded.
While the 85-inch 8K (7680×4320) prototype is on display, there’s no ship date yet. However, consumer product marketing officer Mark Viken says it’s definitely headed for the home.
Sharp’s splashiest ready-for-market offering is an 80-inch 3D LCD TV. The 1080p Wi-Fi display features Sharp’s Quattron technology and 240Hz to virtually eliminate blur.
Connected TV: Sharp announced that all new 60-inch class and larger AQUOS models will come equipped with Wi-Fi enabled SmartCentral for full-screen Web browsing and access to popular apps.
The company also introduced the free Beamzit app, which will allow TVs to share content from iOS or Android devices.
Sharp jointly developed with I-cubed Research Center the ICC-4K LED TV, which “intelligently” up-scales from HD to 4K, providing four times 1080p resolution.
Portability: The AQUOS Freestyle is a line of slim and light HD sets from 20- to 60-inches. The Wi-Fi enabled Freestyles are designed for “plug-into-a-wall-socket-and-play” capability.
Energy-sustainability: Sharp’s 80-inch AQUOS TVs cost just $22 per year to operate, according to the company.
The PicoP Gen 2 HD laser display engine boasts 720p high-definition images and immersive displays up to 200-inches diagonal.
