The Consumer Electronic Show - Part Two
Update: My hospital experience will be posted shortly, please check back very soon today.
On yesterday’s blog, I shared with you how Eliad Laskin, my Social Media Content Director and Tech Guy, and Stephen Rollins, our VP of Corporate Technology, spent a few days last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held annually in Las Vegas. This show is a dream come true for techno-geeks, but I think that it is really important to stay abreast of what is being introduced into the consumer electronics market. In business, you must be mainstream and willing to embrace the digital world, just as we, at MSLO, did this year with our very first digital issue of Living, called Boundless Beauty, available on the Apple iPad and with our Everyday Food and Cookies apps. Yesterday’s blog covered many of the bigger names in technology. Today’s is a report about some of the smaller companies who were present at CES – smaller, but fascinating, just the same.
1 A Vegas trip would not complete without an Elvis sighting.
2 Attendees crammed the escalators.
3 The Las Vegas convention center consists of three gigantic halls - The North, The South, and The Central.
4 There were stacks of publications for the show. An iPhone app was also available, if you wanted to attend paper-free!
5 New from OnStar - Now, your non-GM or your older GM car can be equipped with OnStar. This mirror replaces the factory installed one.
6 It includes automatic crash response, turn-by-turn navigation, stolen vehicle location assistance, one-button access to emergency and roadside services, and hands-free calling, including Bluetooth connectivity.
7 Eliad and Steve received an actual demo when OnStar offered to drive them back to their hotel after the show!
8 The Sound Egg - a chair that immerses you in an amazing audio experience.
9 We try to emulate people by building robots, but in this case, a person was inside this costume trying to emulate a robot.
10 Dick Northford from La Crosse technologies alongside one of my favorite clocks, which I have hanging in my house. It's an atomic clock.
11 Want to play some old-school video games? Icade to the rescue! Just insert your iPad and have fun.
12 Ford Sync had an interactive display.
13 You just tell the Sync where you want to go and what song you want to hear, in addition to many other commands.
14 Rachael Hecht and Evan Dash, of Innovative Technologies, displayed a portable safe for iPads and other valuables.
15 Golden Solutions from Innovative Technologies - Tech for the elderly, such as large button remote controls and telephones.
16 If you don't have two Frenchies and a Chow Chow guarding your home, you may want to consider all sorts of home alarm equipment.
17 A Lady Gaga impersonator - The real Lady Gaga was actually at the Polaroid display.
18 Kicker, was showing off their new line of earbuds.
19 You could trade in your earbuds here for a brand new pair of theirs. Obviously, this was a popular booth.
20 At the Sony display, it was fun to test all of their excellent e-readers.
21 Corning makes Gorilla glass - a very strong touch sensitive glass that's used in many ways, including the screens for iPads.
22 This heavy metal weight can be slammed onto the glass and not a scratch or crack! That's some strong stuff.
23 In the future, your counter tops could incorporate Gorilla glass - Imagine all of your recipes on your digital touch screen counter?
24 Another iPad accessory - the icePad - It's supposed to keep you iPad running coolly.
25 Eliad was amused to see himself on display at the CyberClean booth. Eliad displayed their cleaning product on my show last year. They told him that it was a great success for getting the word out.
26 Meinrad Flury, the founder of CyberClean, showing off his latest product
27 This is a shoe cleaner.
28 Kayde, from Peerless Industries, showed some good mounting options for the kitchen.
29 The Zeppelin iPod dock
30 An employee, from TCL, demonstrated technology, which allows you to be the actual remote and interact with gestures to control it.
31 The international section offered many smaller booths. This is is the China aisle.
32 And the Korean aisle
33 iRobi is an interesting robot for children.
34 A Karaoke machine for the iPad
35 Pamela, from Fibershell, a French company - displayed ecologically friendly iPad covers.
36 There were all kinds of funky chairs.
37 And, there were some strange characters milling around.
38 Some booths hired DJ's to pump up the music.
39 These devices help you strengthen and condition your muscles.
40 Emily, from Aiken Labs, showed off some neat video game devices.
41 Megan, from Worth Avenue Group smashed a computer. They were doing this to promote the electronics insurance which they sell.
42 Urban Tool makes tech-wear for carrying all of your gadgets.
43 Allison and Caitlin from M-Edge displayed some very cool covers for your iPad and Kindle, that can be personalized.
44 This device allows your iPhone or iPod Touch to act as a universal remote.
45 A closeup
46 A fun little game called Sphero
47 This is the playing field.
48 This is the user interface.
49 Have you ever been in a pinch and needed a good self portrait? The xshot to the rescue!
50 A software program developed to help you stave off dementia
51 This robot was having a malfunction, but the geeks were on it!
52 Gene from Kiss was somehow promoting SPECK cases for your phone.
53 Remember the Mint robot floor cleaner? It made another appearance this year.
54 A powerful computer in a small box from Xi3
55 Put your iPad in this guitar and you can really rock.
56 A TV within a mirror?
Being old fashioned, I just can't imagine what any one person could possibly do with even a portion of all the new things on the market these days.
Gloria G!!
Posted by: Gloria | January 12th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Hi Martha very impressive! ! Thanks to Eliad and Stephen for an amazing an informative tour.
Posted by: Rowaida Flayhan | January 12th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Thanks so much for this and will say that I wanna be in mainstream and get into digital world. Las Vegas, even seeing Elvis, does not interest me right now but so glad Eliad and Stephen went there to show us how to improve LIVING. Just a note, I learned McCain was in Central America during Arizona assasination from your tweet so might be techie.
Posted by: ann | January 12th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Hi Martha, This second blog post by Eliad and Stephen is overwhelming!! I love that those guys showed us so many smaller company products. Their photos are superb and fascinating. Way to go, guys!! I love the atomic clock, the e-readers and especially all of the things related to iPads. I'll have to share both blogs with my brother who is an electronic geek, also. Welcome back, Martha! Glad you arrived safely even though you got 20"s of snow! Love your tweet and twitpic about your animals in the snow! Waiting to see if you made it to NY to be on the Today Show this morning. Sure hope so!! Have a great day and stay warm!! Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | January 12th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Thanks for all the pics. I loved the picture of the Sony Reader display. I'm a fan and recently upgraded to the new pocket edition.
http://justonedonna.blogspot.com/2011/01/reading-in-21st-century.html
Posted by: Just One Donna | January 12th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Oh MY, I would so love this, I just love new technology. I just got my 1st IPod touch, Oh what fun, My next wish is a IPAD, how amazing... How lucky to go to this convention...
Posted by: Joanne Cox | January 12th, 2011 at 11:59 am
I have a design invention , I have been sitting on for about years. I was scammed by a design and development company and only got a small amount of my investment back when the government trade commission took them to court for a lot of people
that got scammed by Davidson. I still have a passion to do something with my design . I would love to send Martha Stewart a sample and see if she could help me follow up on my dream.
Thank you so much for your consideration.
marianne
Posted by: marianne southwell | January 12th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Martha, thanks for sharing this blog.
Posted by: KLBrown | January 12th, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Martha I had the same type of thing happen to me two weeks ago. Our family dog was sleeping in our bed, the lights were off and I stuck my face down to him and I scared him and he bit my nose, took a piece out. I too went to the ER it has healed up very well without a plastic surgeon. I'll never do that again!
Posted by: D Thorpe | January 14th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
My heart goes out to you. You're experience is shared by many animal lovers. my gentle, wonderful, 3 legged pit bull was startled in his sleep in the same way, by my son who our pet adored unconditionally.
Fortunatly he caught himself in time and no one was hurt. The sweetest of animals have a self preservation instinct that we humans have to be aware of no matter how much we love our pets.
Marilyn
Posted by: marilyn Militscher | January 15th, 2011 at 11:49 am
Hi Martha:
Sorry to hear about your unfortunate mishap with your dog. I'm glad you are going to be alright.
I am redoing my kitchen in my 1734 farmhouse and fell in love with your Bedford, NY renovation. My husband and I are trying to figure out the paint color. I went on your website and found the Bay Leaf color which looked alot like the color in your magazine spread.
Could you please give me the name of the color?
Thank you and have a great day!
Eileen
Posted by: Eileen | January 16th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Martha,
Hope you may recover very soon! Very nice all your pics and your
personal blog.
Best regards from
Blanca Diaz
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Posted by: Blanca Diaz | January 18th, 2011 at 2:35 pm