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Old 01-07-2013, 01:53 PM   #1
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The Consumer Electronics Show, the year's largest gadget expo, gets underway next week. Historically, it has been the place for major electronics companies to show off their most amazing and futuristic wares. Here's a quick list of stuff that debuted at CES: the VCR, the audio cassette, the Pong home console, affordable digital watches, the Nintendo Entertainment System, Tetris, the Apple Newton, and the Palm Pre. Here's an awesome photo roundup of past CESes.
It hasn't been that way for a while; technology is no longer a niche market for hobbyists, and the introduction of new gadgets is major national news, so the big companies have stopped announcing flagship products or stopped attending CES altogether. Why bury your news among a thousand other products when you can wait a few weeks and have the news cycle all to yourself? This year, Microsoft isn't even attending, and the other real players in tech--Apple, Google, and Amazon--either haven't attended in years or have never bothered.
But that also opens the door for smaller companies, which have a larger platform during CES than they'd have normally. We don't know exactly what to expect from them, because those companies often are not on our radar until they reveal something that wows us on the show floor. Barring that, here are some other things we're pretty sure we'll see.
Tons of Windows 8 stuff. Windows 8, Microsoft's most innovative version of Windows in, well, maybe ever, is promising and super interesting, though it hasn't been a blockbuster success. We've only just seen the first wave of Windows devices, so we're expecting to see lots and lots of crazy form factors, from small tablets to large tablets, convertibles to detachables, and probably a few we haven't even thought of yet. Will they be better than the Lenovo Yoga 13, our current favorite laptop? We hope so!
4K is the new 3-D is the new HD. One of the trademarks of CES for the past few years has been wildly expensive TVs that may or may not actually exist. Last year's was a $25,000 55-inch OLED, but this year I think 4K will be the big wow-TV. 4K is four times the resolution of what we think of as high-definition. It's pretty amazing, but only if you're very very close to the screen--from 10 feet away, sitting on a couch, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference. Still, we're expecting a whole bunch of 4K screens, and we will get all up in them.
You are fat. We haven't been impressed with fitness trackers in the past, but that's not because we don't like the idea of fitness trackers--it's just that fitness trackers aren't smart enough yet. CES is the perfect place for a new crop of trackers to pop up, and in fact, the Basis Band, one of the most innovative and intelligent fitness trackers we've seen yet, debuted at CES last year. These gadgets are mostly made by smaller companies, and we wouldn't be surprised if we see some very cool new high-tech ways to get in shape.
Connect your home. Soon enough, we'll be able to control every element of our homes through our phones. Lights, temperature, humidity, all of our appliances, door locks, everything. We're not there yet--mostly we see a lot of cobbled-together "connected" tools--but we'll move closer on the path to the connected home this year at CES.
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Default Uconnect Showcasing New 'Access' at 2013 CES



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Our user-focused, intuitive Uconnect System will have some cool, tech-forward news to announce this week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

If you're at CES, stop by North Hall Booth #301 and check out the amazing voice-recognition technology with Uconnect Access. You can live-demo it, while also having the chance to win one of a selection of prizes you choose. You also can see the special Uconnect screen the LAPD is trying out (see image), as well as some of our newest vehicles, like the 2014 Fiat 500L, 2013 Ram 1500 and the 2013 SRT Viper.

If you can't be in Las Vegas, fear not. We'll be sending real-time images and information from the show. We'll also be giving our Twitter community a chance to win a daily prize, courtesy of our partners. Be sure to watch @Chrysler or just follow the #Uconnect stream.
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Automotive-industry supplier Delphi is launching a direct-to-consumer product that will enable you to perform a variety of vehicle tracking and convenience functions with your smart phone.
Vehicle Diagnostics by Delphi, which works with most cars built since 1996, consists of a downloadable app and a module that plugs into the car's OBD II diagnostic port. It then allows you to monitor the vehicle's position in real time from their phone or home computer.
Virtual "geo fences" can be set, and the system will send an e-mail or text alert if the vehicle strays from the preestablished boundaries to help parents monitor young drivers. Alerts can also be set for speeding or other driving misbehavior, such as frequent hard braking or acceleration.
Vehicle Diagnostics by Delphi also enables your smart phone to mimic car remote functions, including locking and unlocking doors, popping the trunk, and starting the engine. And it can translate trouble codes, so you can better understand why the check engine light is triggered.
A company representative explained that more services are planned, including seat belt use monitoring and basically anything else that can be reported through the OBD II port.
Delphi is partnering with Verizon to deliver the service, which will be sold through a subscription plan with Verizon supplying the module and data transfer. Set to roll out within the next few weeks, Vehicle Diagnostics by Delphi is compatible with Android and iPhone. Pricing has not been announced.
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This was an awesome show, missed first day, wore myself out and still didnt get to see everything. It should be a week long event
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