future of consumer electronics

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Please note how FRESH most of this news is (mostly from OCTOBER 2008).

This copy of the keynote at RETAILVISION , Dubai , Nov. 3rd 2008.

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• The Big Will Get Bigger• We Expect Faster, Smaller, Cheaper

• We Will See Different Forms & Footprints

• If Toys R Them, Fashion is Us• Netbooks & the $99 Laptop

Panasonic Corp. has agreed in principle to acquire Sanyo Electric Co. in a deal that would create Japan's largest electronics company.

Nov. 3rd 2008

And Fujitsu will buy

out Siemen’s from F-S

Computers

Buffalo's LinkStation MiniPolaroid

Zink

iKIT with keyboard

Toshiba is one of several companies that showed curved TV screens in 2008

Adds “a regional design” touch

HP Enters the Netbook Market with HP Mini 1000

and Starts Price WarBob’s Law : the Price Point

Should Never be Lower Than the Model Number!

In Taiwan, you can buy an Asus Eee PC for $29 with a 2-year contract from carrier Far EasTone.

In UK, free laptops have been used for more than a year as an enticement to sign up for mobile broadband contracts.

Released in Oct. 2008

"We don't know

how to make a

$500 computer

that's not a

piece of junk…”

• • 3D All Around• Glasses, Really…• E-Paper, E-Books•Mobile Devices•Home Networking• Wearables•Robots•Video VoIP Calling• Renewing Brands• More Gaming• Internet of Things

Greener, Smarter and “Bling-ier”

Smarter: Promate eGo4 is an HSDPA WCDMA USB modem with T-flash Reader

Bling-ier:MA LABS gold-plated USB

Sold by MA Labs under the

SuperTalent brand

Provides 30 hours of talk time to an average mobile phone (60-80 hours of play time for average iPod)

The power is sufficient (1 watt) to operate, and charge, multiple times, a wide range of portable electronic devices

Energy-efficient external hard drive

uses less power Eco-friendly

ingredients and packaging

Automatically powers on or off

with your computer

Turbo USB 2.0 Naturally grown bamboo

The first Google-powered handsets hit stores, and already the first disposable Android phone is coming… Hop-on will

announces its Android phone in

January 2009 at CES

Intelligent power supplies communicate with electronic devices

The TrickleStar™ Universal Standby Power Saver reduces the standby energy consumed by PC and TV Peripheral equipment. The product has in-built current sensing circuitry to sense when a PC or TV is on or Off. The product can be

connected directly to equipment or connected to a standard electrical powerstrip with a number of connected devices.

1 minute of PULLING the PCG1 provides:

20 minutes of talk time on a mobile phone

6 hrs of music on an MP3 player

45 min on a Nintendo DS lite

Yes, there’s even a PCG2, a semi-permanent installation for 30-40w to access electricity where the grid doesn't reach…

TuneBug uses an “exciter” which projects sound waves through the surfaces it rests on.

“KVM for Home”

The glasses

are projectin

g the content

onto the screen.Pico projection goes in

devices

Glasses with liquid crystal shutters made by XPAND

Myvu Crystal “Personal Viewer” connects easily to your video iPod or portable media player

Weighing about 1 ounce, Myvu's SolidOptex™ optical technology provides the user with the

impression of a free-floating monitor. Let’s call it a “Monitor-on-the-Nose.”

GUNNAR i-AMP™ Technology, a patented solution for digital eye fatigue....

Above: AirvanaLeft: Samsung

OK, We’ve Got to Change the Name, but Telecoms

Will Pay You to Get These Into Customer’s Homes…

Aka…APBS

ROVIO…not just an ordinary Robot

He’s “undercover”

This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions.

The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach it and can ‘dance’ when music is played.

It is about 1.30 meter tall and 40 centimeters

in diameter. (The flower, not the kid…

he’ s shorter…)

3M Mini-Projector is Designed for Business

Professionals

TI and others develop the smallest projectors

First, it will be the big 3D cinema roll-out

Then Hollywood will encourage Home TV as an outlet for their already paid-for 3D content

Philips is, creating some of the first 3D TVs that don’t require

glasses (auto-stereoscopic displays are built with dozens of

micro lenses that transmit different images to right and left

eyes.

The Minoru uses two lenses to capture your images and videos in 3-D.

It can be used with programs like Windows Live Messenger.

To see the 3-D image, your chat partner needs– you guessed it—some of those new 3D glasses!

Mitsubishi launches first Laser TV in US shops

(Oct.28th, 2008)Thin, Better Picture, Less Power Drain

Double-sided Reflective Display

LG Display Exhibits from IMID in Korea,

Oct. 2008

The Screen Becomes its own Device

Wireless Even in use in this

5-star hotel as Digital Signage (JW Marriot in Dubai where RETAILVISION is held).

Kodak OLED photo frame from Photokina

$75-100 million dollars in sales across North America, going to $250-300 million in 2009 and a half-billion by 2010.

The cards don't take up any inventory

They're not activated until they're purchased, so they don't sit on the balance sheet . You don't need to worry about losing money with cards. Target actually

thought up pre-paid iTunes card and convinced Apple to offer iTunes cards.

WorldDMB and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) today announce publication of a set of minimum features and functions for all digital radio receivers, known as the WorldDMB Digital Radio Receiver Profiles.

Creates a single digital radio market for Europe. Receiver manufacturers,

Mir:ror brings the Internet of Things into the consumer space

Renewed Asian and entrepreneur interest in brands

Westinghouse GE Polaroid

PETTERS Group was able to quickly enter the market expand into a full CE company using Polaroid brand

Buying a brand is almost always cheaper (and easier) than making one.

KINDLE, to surprise of all, sold 240,000 units before Q4

This $350 machine e-book reader is Amazon's iPod, at 378,000 units this year. The Kindle will in 3 years be a $1.1 billion business and 4% of all Amazon sales.

The cellphone-loving Italians will be the first to try the Readius this year, with Telecom Italia due to release its Librofonino

The first mobile device with a screen bigger than the device itself. The trick is a paper-thin rollable display, just 25 microns thick.

Plastic Logic will target business readers

Driven by expectations around Telepresence, consumers want it, too

Logitech in Oct. 2008 bought SightSpeed to deliver it

Wearable computing.. Several Bluetooth helmets have been developed for skiing and motorcycling from companies such as Marker and Motorola.

Jackets that plug into all of your gear and create a personal area network are available from ScotteVest.

Bluetooth glove phone (Jason Bradbury, UK)

Spore, a Hit Virtual Worlds New Mind-Control

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