Wednesday, January 6, 2016

The future of consumer technology comes in Las Vegas – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

Imagine a future where your tennis tighten alone, the refrigerator will warn you when you have to go shopping and your alarm clock wakes you with the smell of freshly baked croissants. . The future is now and is to be presented in Las Vegas in one of the world’s largest technology trade shows, CES 2016

officially started the show Las Vegas technology – CES 2016 – one of the most important world events in the sector. However, many brands have presented their news. Smart technology – smart – is the great theme of this show, where everything from tennis to tighten alone, the smart electrodométicos, cars that seem to have come directly from 2050 to Vegas


. > More than 3,600 exhibitors, 200 conferences and over 170 thousand visitors. So was the CES 2015 and are not expected less the fair Las Vegas technology this year, which opens doors officially this Wednesday, January 6, 2015.

“The theme for CES 2016 seems to be: everything is ‘smart,’ “writes Madhumita Murgia, correspondent for The Telegraph in Las Vegas, explaining that it is possible to find a few meters away from each other, intelligent scales, intelligent thermometers, steam irons also smart and up the first smart tennis, the Digitsole.

The wide range of products at CES 2016 reveal that consumer technology is in a transition period, considers an analyst consulted by CNBC. “We are at a turning point when it comes to consumer technology, and the things that drove consumer technology in the past will fall,” consider Drexel Hamilton, the analyst Brian White.

The analysis is supported by figures released by the Association of Consumer Technology, organizer of CES 2016. In 2016 mobile devices, TVs and computers representing 51% of the 287 billion dollar industry revenue, but other technologies begins to gain ground. Defends the organization, quoted by CNBC that “growth catalyst in the industry are innovations such as wearables, virtual reality and drones.”

The “internet of things” will be a major driver of these new products, as It can transform everyday items into smart machines and networked. “This year is more about evolution than about revolution,” concluded Brian Blau, an analyst at Gartner, quoted by CNBC

The British company Smart -. Which launched in 2013 a kettle that can connect via a application on your phone, where you can also adjust the temperature – revealed this year new products as a chamber for the refrigerator to take pictures in real time the content and send to your phone, or bases of intelligent bottles that warn, based on weight of it, when you have to go shopping because the product is at the end.

“The exploded sensors in these last two years, therefore, analog products are now being replaced by digital versions,” explained Shawn DuBravac, the Consumer Technology Association, quoted by The Telegraph.

When it comes to smart appliances, a new machine Dishwasher Whirlpool that can be put to work remotely was presented, the fridge LG having an outer panel that shows everything that’s on the inside and whose door opens automatically when someone approaches, and a Samsung refrigerator that has an external display connected to a virtual store where you can order new products from home .

Another of the products shown to be successful in this fair is the SCIO, a food scanner that can determine all the ingredients and calories at each of your meals.

When it comes the drones – also stars in this CES 2016 – The Telegraph highlights the drone Lily Robotics, Innovation Prize winner CES 2016; the giant drone with a 4K camera and transmission Wi-fi up to 1.2 km from the DJI Chinese; and Disk Drone from Parrot, able to travel at 80 kilometers / hour, with a 1080p camcorder and weighs only 700 grams.

When the subject is cars, not too lacking novelty. The producer of Nvidia chips started the week with the release announcement board supercomputer to cars that drive themselves and that is already being tested by brands such as BMW, Volvo, Ford and Audi.

The start Chinese-up Faraday Future unveiled its electric supercar, the FFZero1, futuristic, modular design. The car allows to incorporate the smartphone on the wheel and has an onboard computer connected to the Internet

In the field of werables, also include some products such as ring The Oura which measures the quality of sleep.; Smart Withings Thermo thermometer which uses infrared sensors to determine the temperature when pointed at one’s forehead; the Digitsole tennis, which not only automatically tighten the laces, as count calories and measure the temperature of the feet; the collar that allows monitoring via mobile phone sporting activity of your pet; or sports bra Ombra, created by OMSignal company, equipped with biometric sensors that can determine the distance traveled, the physical effort exerted and the accumulated fatigue.

If this is the kind of thing you’d expect to see a fair technology, there are others that may surprise you.

The LG introduced a thin OLED screen like a paper sheet and flexible enough to be rolled up like a newspaper. With a resolution of 1200x810ppi, can “offer e-readers users a very similar experience to the role in the future,” writes The Telegraph.

Also note the electric skateboard Blink-Board, controlled through smartphone and able to travel more than 20 kilometers / hour.

And for those to whom cost out of bed, there is also news. The Sensorwake alarm stimulates your sense of smell to try to wake up, releasing a wide variety of flavors, from the smell of the sea, even coffee, freshly baked croissants or chocolate.

Even now the CES 2016 opened doors and not lacks novelty. The show runs until January 9, so it is worth continuing aware of trends that will shape the future, which envisions ‘smart’ and where everything is connected.

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