Joe's CES 2013 Blog: January 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013

Personal Wind Machine

This small 500watt wind powered electric generator can supplement a home’s needs or keep a small building, pump house or outhouse off the grid. It’s the MCT-500 by Oersted Technologies, Japan.

Thin, but doesn’t sound it

Bar Speakers from Exelway have great fidelity and are only millimeters thin. They have sizes for all installations and some that look like molding.

LED Mood Lighting

LED bulbs controlled by an iPad via BlueTooth can be set to any color temperature or intensity chosen. It also has the ability to cycle through colors man.

Remote Tire Pressure Sensing

4 little devices screw-on in place of the valve-stem caps and a reader goes in the car and you’re a full-time monitor of tire pressure.

Look Mom it Floats!

A waterproof SmartPhone bag with a floatation device. You can also take pictures and speak and hear through it.

Finally Small Keyboard with Trackpad

Windows 8, iOS and OSX compatible with little unit uses BlueTooth to make it easy.

USBB

USB BB Gun controlled by a laptop with positioning and crosshairs for accurate targeting.

Coming and Going

WeVO Drive camera with front and rear imagers

Bunny Hill Proof

Apex HD+ WiFi Snow Goggle has built-in HD recording and live streaming via an iPhone App with remote control. Liquid Image Co, LLC won a CES Innovations Award.

The Voyager Legend UC is a voice-command accepting, smart sensor using, BlueTooth headset. This unit is based on the CES Innovations Award winning Voyager sound quality and has won its own CES Innovations Award for being the most intelligent headset on the market.

A Sound Case

The CES Innovations Award winning SmartSound case by Ken Oh Corporation is a passive “megaphone for the iPhone” and uses no batteries or electrical energy to amplify the sound.

10-4 BlueTooth

The Nighthawk BlueTooth “Clip On” microphone has push-to-talk functionality for two-way radios or smartphone users talking only when spoken to; a CES Innovations Award winner.

SpiderTablet

Breffo Spiderpodium Tablet holder; CES Innovations Award winner

Hearing Aquaris

Siemens Aquaris is the world’s first and only truly waterproof hearing aid. It’s the only hearing aid to receive an IP68 rating for continuous submersion underwater and is a CES Innovations Award winner.

Environmental Detection for the Hearing Impaired

The Moneual Smart Care system for the hearing impaired detects a wide range of noises and sounds that occur and transmits this information to its user, giving the hearing impaired users awareness of all sounds while keeping then safe from risks. A CES Innovations Award winner.

Social Backup

Seagate’s CES Innovations Award winner is its line of Backup Plus Hard Drives that deliver simplified back up from a PC but also offer a way to back up from Social Media sites like Facebook and Flickr.

Tune It App

Alpine’s Tune It App won a CES Innovations Award for giving users an easy way to tune their sound system using their smartphone and stay connected to Facebook while driving safely. (An assumption was made that they use text-to-speech-like functionality in the car audio system to cover the Facebook part.)

All-In-One LTE Gateway

This unit from ZyXEL is an all-in-one fixed LTE gateway with multitude of access and home connectivity options including wireless-n, 4-port gigabit switch, USB ports and 2 SIP based VoIP Ports. The LTE5121 won a CES Innovations Award.

Action EGO

The Liquid Image EGO Wi-Fi Sport Camera can transmit to an App and is fully waterproof and HD; a CES Innovations Award winner for their live streaming capability.

Connected In-Dash Navigation

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The Kenwood DNN990HD has built-in Wi-Fi to connect to smartphones and hot spots to enrich the “driving experience” by bringing social media and other Internet data to the car. The use of Wi-Fi won them a CES Innovations Award.

Micro and Wireless

The JBL Micro Wireless ultra-portable speaker has a built-in bass port for better sound than usual from these pocket speakers.

Windows 8 Touchpad

Another CES Innovations Award win for Logitech is the T650 Touchpad. This unit bridges the gap between standard PC’s without a touch display and the Windows 8 touch user interface.

Over the Ear Wireless Headset

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The Logitech UE 9000 are wireless headphones with built-in microphone and fully BlueTooth enabled. It also packs noise cancellation and “laser” tuned drivers for great sound. This is one of the only full-sized headphones that can be used as a headset and won a CES Innovations Award.

Good to the Bone

The AfterShotz headphones sit in front of the ear and use “bone conduction technology” to deliver sound through the cheekbones to the inner ear. This is a safe way for personal listening and won a CES Innovations Award.

Solar Powered Generator

For emergency or day-to-day off the grid activities, the Yeti 1250 can run many small appliances for days and a refrigerator for 30 hours. This is a green sustainable product and also won a CES Innovations Award.

Hisense XT780 Google TV

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This 55-incher had integrated Google TV, which is an “aggregation engine” for all of the content within and available to your home. Google TV uses their search expertise to make everything viewable in one display using one remote control. Hisense won a CES Innovations Award but they might want to give it to Google; the display was “ok” looking.

Urban Weather Station

The Netatmo Urban Weather Station can monitor Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality and other Weather reads so you know if it’s better to go out or stay in. It was a triple CES Innovations Award winner.

Connected Fork!

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Hapilabs introduced the HapiFork. A fork that talks to an App or PC that measures and monitors your eating habits and they claim they will help you lose weight. It won a CES Innovations Award.

Solar Keyboard

Logitech’s solar keyboard is BlueTooth enabled to easily connect to a Mac and eliminate the need for batteries. This device won a CES Innovations Award under the Tech for a Better World category because of its recharging capability and it’s even comes in PVC free packing and a recycled box.