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The Editors of Electronics Reviews at Best Choice Reviews decided to research the topic of:
CES 2013 Trends: What Will They Think of Next?
THIS YEAR’S CONTENDERS:
Best Car Tech
Ford Adds Support For Glympse, Lets Friends Know When You’ll Arrive
- Real-time location-sharing app Glympse plans to bring its app into Ford vehicles.
- First location-sharing app for Ford’s SYNC in-car connectivity system
- Ford drivers will be able use voice commands to let others know exactly where they are while driving.
- To use Glympse
- drivers will download the app
- Bluetooth-pair or USB-connect that phone to a Ford SYNC AppLink-enabled vehicle
- A driver can press the SYNC voice button on the steering wheel and say “Send Glympse”
- Their location will be shared
- Voice commands guide drivers through the location-sharing process
- sends the car’s exact location to a contact in their phones
- Location details can also be posted on Facebook and Twitter
Best TV
Toshiba Shows Off Its New 84-inch Ultra HD 4K TV
- Toshiba upcoming line of Ultra HD 4K TVs. The L9300 series is headlined by an 84-inch model (pictured above), but also includes a 58 and 65-inch set.
- 4K format gives you four times the pixel resolution of a standard 1080p Full-HD television
- Offers a picture at a 3,840 x 2,160 pixels
- Toshiba’s 4K series uses its own CEVO 4K Quad + Dual Core Processor
- It what converts standard 1080p content to the 4K resolution
- Doesn’t create any artifacts in the process.
- Makes it possible to view traditional content (such as a Blu-ray disk) at near 4K resolution, though not originally created at that resolution
- Televisions in the series also use Toshiba’s new Cloud TV platform
- Cloud TV platform gives users access to
- Skype calling
- personal messaging
- a family event calendar
- streaming news
- The L9300 series of Ultra HD 4K televisions is expected to ship this summer
- Price TBA
The 85-inch, 4K TV is carried by a large metal frame that tilts up and down and incorporates a 120-watt 2.2 speaker system.
This is currently the largest Ultra High-Definition TV in the world, and features Samsung’s Smart Hub software.
Powered by a 1.35Ghz quad-core A15 processor.
There are no details on the cost yet, but you can be sure it will probably be around the price of a small family car.
People’s Voice Award
Nvidia Unveils Project Shield, a Powerful Android Game Controller
- A powerful Android game controller that packs the company’s latest and greatest mobile chip, the Tegra 4.
- Full game console unto itself
- 5-inch retina display that folds up from the controls
- Connects to the Android ecosystem and Google Play store via Wi-Fi
- Players can mirror what’s onscreen to a TV either wirelessly or via HDMI
- Has access to Android’s app catalog (including many Tegra-optimized games)
- Can access PC games from a computer on the network
- Relay the gameplay to a TV
- All the while, the user plays the game with the Shield
- Controller is packed with batteries for extended gameplay
- bass-reflex speaker for big sound
- ports for HDMI and USB
Best Smart Phone
Sony’s Waterproof Xperia Z Smartphone
- Xperia Z runs a mildly altered version of Android
- Huge, super-high-resolution 5-inch screen at 1920 x 1080 pixels
- very thin, at 7.9 mm
- Light wait, though made of glass
- Xperia Z is waterproof!
- 16GB of storage (expandable with microSD slot)
- 2GB of memory
Best Camera
Fuji X100S
- 70 Improvements over the X100
- 6 x 6 RGGB filter array pattern
- random arrangement of colour filters within each block of 36 photo receptors
- less prone to suffer from moiré patterning
- maximum continuous shooting rate of 6fps for up to 29 images at full resolution
- shutter lag of just 0.01sec
LAST YEAR’S WINNERS
Best Car Tech
QNX Car 2 mobile apps platform
- includes a wide array of QNX technologies
- the QNX®Neutrino® RTOS
- powerful multimedia framework
- superior hands-free solution with HD stereo
- HTML5-based HMI technology
- direct development path from mobile to automotive
Best in Show and Best TV
LG’s 55EM960V OLED TV
- 55″ wide
- ultra slim depth (only 4mm)
- thinner than any smartphone
- 3D OLED TV
- Cinema 3D Smart TV
- Price: $11,240
People’s Voice Award
Razer’s Project Fiona
- Gaming tablet with integrated dual game controllers
- 10.1″ diagonally
- Windows 7 OS
- 1280×800 pixel resolution
- Razor Touchscreen UI
- Price: $1,000
Best Smart Phone
Nokia Lumia 900
- 8 megapixels camera sensor
- 4.3″ display size
- weighs 160g
- 7h talk time
- 300h standby time
- 6h music playback time
- 6.5h video playback time
- Price: $379
Best Camera
Fujifilm X Pro 1
- 16.3 million pixels
- 23.6 mm x 15.6 mm (APS-C) X-Trans CMOS with primary color filter
