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VMI’s 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Best of the Best

January 2013By Vanguard Marketing International, Inc.

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VMI’s 2013 CES Best of the BestWelcome back to VMI’s Best of the Best CES Technology!

The VMI team once again traveled the halls of CES to bring to you their pick of top innovations and enabling technologies, so that you can see and be what’s next!

Background 2013 Consumer Electronics Show

CES attracts the “who’s who” of the technology and related industries. It continues to include C-level executives from the entertainment, mobile and consumer electronics industries

150,000+ visitors; 34,000 international attendees; Viewed 3,250 exhibits (representing 170 countries); 20,000 new products were launched

Microsoft and Google have now join the ranks of Apple, stepping aside with no formal exhibits at CES. But, of course there was no need – the presence of Windows 8, Android and iPads/iPhones were felt everywhere…

Did we mention, there were 3,250 companies exhibiting at CES???

How about the fact that more than 50% of the products were internet-connected this year?

Top Innovations High Performance for Mobile - 2013’s mobile processors unveiled by Qualcomm for the “Born Mobile” generation is

mind boggling and Nvidia is pushing aside desk top computing; Both are driving power and connectedness through the industry between home, work, car, entertainment – everywhere.

Truly emerging: Gateways to Digital health and fitness - Driving Big Data opportunities and personalized health

On the Road Autonomy – Saving Lives… that’s what the automobile and insurance industries are telling us!

Immersive Gaming – no distortion with this new reality field!

3D Printers - Continue forward with new business models – for the entrepreneur who can easily convert their digital design into physical creations, with resolutions and materials becoming more refined with each new generation.

What’s Now: Less obtrusive, more intuitive Human Machine Interfaces – Gesture, Touch, Eye Tracking, Thinking… you chose how you will interface to your world… it’s going to be big!

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VMI’s 2013 CES Best of the Best Highlights

Best of the Best

• Lexus Intelligent Mobility

• High Performance Mobile

• $10 Million Real-life Medical Tricorder X-PRIZE by Qualcomm Life (not Star Trek!)

• The Oculus Rift, a Virtual Reality Gaming Headset

• Leap 3D Motion Control

Highlights of the Top Picks• On the Road Autonomy & Awareness

• Desktop Power: In your Phone

• Gateways: For Connected Home, Health & More

• Gateway to Connected Home

• Gateway to Real-time Healthcare

• X-Prize Foundation: Big Data & Personal Health

• Robots at Home or the Office

• Cinema UHD TV Technology

• Immersive Virtual Reality Gaming

• Human-Machine Interface (HMI)

• 3D Printing – Additive Manufacturing

• Emerging Technology

• And the CES Winner…

• What’s Next…

If you see the YouTube icon - click on it, it will take you toa video about that product or technology!

VMI CES Highlight Alumni

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BEST OF THE BEST AND TOP INNOVATIONS 2013 CES SHOW

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On the Road Autonomy & Awareness

All of the major car manufacturers are implementing features today that provide low level autonomy and augment driver awareness that can offer true value in safe driving without having to wait for the totally autonomous-promise in the next decade

Toyota / Lexus Intelligent Mobility The vision: “An intelligent, always-attentive co-pilot whose

skills contribute to safer driving.” - Mark Templin, Toyota group VP and general manager of the Lexus Division, Torrance, CA

Traffic alert capability forward and when in reverse

Millimeter Radar (MMR) for lane drift/collision avoidance

SELF CORRECTION! – non only preparing the car for collision, but correcting the drift

Biometric assessment – are you paying attention?

Audi Piloted Parking Drive to the entrance, pull out your Smartphone and tell the car

to go find a space • When your ready to go, ask the car to come back and pick

you up

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Desktop Power: In your Phone

The Next Generation of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile chips offer 75% better performance than the previous generation

The flagship quad-core model is clocked up to 2.3 GHz, or about as fast as high-end laptops

The new processors supports 4K Ultra HD — 4 times the resolution of High Definition 1080p

To arrive mid 2013

High Performance for Mobile

“Mobile is the largest computing platform in history, … pretty soon, mobile connections are going to

outnumber us.” - CES 2013 Keynote Speaker, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs

An Incredible Demonstration:Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 System on a Chip (SoC)

for mobile platforms (phone or table), enabled complete, immersive real time decoding and

encoding of 2K and 4K HD video (H264 format) onto a big screen TV with 7.1 channel DTS surround sound (via HDMI connection). Unbelievable!

Qualcomm was not alone in unveiling new mobile processors:

Nvidia’s new Tegra 4 processor, promising similar performance leaps as Qualcomm

Processor wars are brewing - Consumer to benefit most!

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Gateways: For Connected Home, Health… AKA Machine-to-Machine (M2M), the Internet of Things…

New Alliances and Consortiums are banding together to create new standards for connected devices to access common gateways

Z-Wave Alliance

QUALCOMM Life, 2net Ecosystem

Why now? Dilemma

• Proliferation of web-enabled “smart devices” • Connection costs, battery life

Today’s enabler

• Bluetooth, low-energy ANT, ANT+, ZigBee, ZigBee RF4CE, Wi-Fi, Nike+, IrDA, Near Field Communications (NFC) standard

Target Markets: Characterized by periodic transfer of small amounts of sensor information between sensor nodes and a central device Connected home: Remote controls, energy management, connected lighting,

and home monitoring/security services

Health and fitness devices

Home/Building automation, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC)

Gaming, human interface devices (HID)

Smart meters, payment, and many others

Z-Wave* Alliance* Cisco Z-Wave Radios

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Gateway to Connected Home

The Connected Home of the future is finally becoming a reality. This year saw an increase in connected and smart devices; and nearly all of them controlled by your Smartphone Samsung TecTiles – Built on NFC technology, at the cost of 5 for $15

TecTiles – just tap to change settings on your phone, launch applications, check-in to places, update social status, or even make phone calls or send text messages automatically

Samsung T9000 – At $4,000, the Smart Refrigerator (32cf) has web and app store functionality, and you can customize any one of the quadrants, from freezer to refrigerator based on need

10 inch integrated tablet for creating shopping lists, or accessing the entirety of the Android applications including YouTube

Several humidity sensors to ensure that the optimal environment

Spark Devices – The $50 Wi-Fi enabled light bulb socket started its life with a unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign

Why does it beat out other Wi-Fi lights? You can plug any light bulb into the system that you want, and when it does, you replace just the light bulb

Features an app with features like timers, dimming, and energy saving mode

50 Billion Internet Connected Devices by 2020 - Ericsson’s President

and CEO Hans Vestberg

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Gateway to Real-time Healthcare

2013 is the year for Personal Health monitoring. At the forefront are efforts to enable real time knowledge, tracking and assistance.

Scanadu’s Scout (a NASA AMES Research Center, Mtn View, CA) is competing for the $10M QUALCOMM’s Tricorder X-Prize

Conducts a 10 second scan for: Pulse, electrical heart activity, temperature, heart rate variability, and blood oxygenation

Then uses imaging and sound analysis, molecular diagnostics, data analytics and a suite of algorithms to provide a real-time picture of your health data on your smart phone

RP-VITA (Remote Presence Virtual + Independent Telemedicine Assistant)

(Santa Barbara, CA) Built, in collaboration with iRobot, the robot features diagnostic tools, such as a stethoscope and ultrasound, so a nurse can remotely provide information to physicians

iRiver Earbuds powered by PerformTek’s Precision Biometrics

(Raleigh, NC) Emits light into your ear to track heart rate

The App monitors your calories, distance traveled and performance while still playing your favorite tunes

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X-Prize Foundation: Big Data & Personal Health

2nd year in a row…. Continues to be some of the most exciting work being done for Healthcare, Big Data & Analytics

QUALCOMM’s Tricorder* $10M Challenge – Over 255 Teams from 34 Countries (*i.e. StarTrek Tricorder)

• What if ordinary people with no medical training could identify emerging diseases and monitor their health in real-time?

• A 3.5-year global competition to stimulate innovation and integration of precision diagnostic technologies, making definitive health assessment available directly to “health consumers”

• Teams to develop a device that can detect or monitor 3 broad groups of conditions or parameters, essential to diagnose 12 diseases

• Goal: Allow infinitely greater access to healthcare without seeing a healthcare professional at a clinic or hospital

Archon Genomics $10M Challenge (sequence 100 genomes within 10 days)

• Rapidly, accurately and economically sequence 100 whole human genomes to a level of accuracy never before achieved.

Nokia Sensing $2.25M Challenge

• Development of health sensors and sensing technology

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Nest

We profiled Nest in 2012… A leading company in bringing the concepts of the connected home into reality with their “Learning Thermostat.” The company has now sold “mid-to-low hundreds of thousands…” of their initial model. We love ours!

This year they introduced Nest 2.0, a slimmer more feature-rich version, ($250)

Robots at Home or the Office

Home robots Winbot 7 Window Cleaning robot by Ecovacs – A vacuum seal and a

built in squeegee and you’ve got the easiest way to clean your windows. Shortfalls: Cord and Costs (between $300 and $400).

Side Note: Remember the Roomba Vacuum Robot? There was a plethora of knockoff vacuum bots from S .Korea (Samsung) and Chinese manufactures, expect more entrants in the coming months

Telepresence

MantaroBot – $1,650 – Can use any Video Conferencing App in additional to being controlled through either an iPad or Android tablet

The Telepresence market is quickly expanding with many approaches to the same problem. The most cost effective solutions will likely utilize tablets with video conferencing capabilities, such as the MantaroBot. These Telepresence robots have a variety of applications such as healthcare and education.

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Cinema UHD TV Technology

The term Ultra High Definition (UHD) is now the standard, equating 4K resolution (about 4 x’s the resolution of 1080p) LG 84-inch 4K TV - $19,999 Sony 84 inch 4K TV - $25,000

LG showcased the World’s First… 3D Video Wall – Grab your glasses! Curved 3D OLED TV (5 degree curva-

ture), provided depth to the and a more lifelike , immersive viewing experience

Glasses-free, 3D 55-inch 4K panel by Vizio/Dolby, produces 9 views (compared with 4 narrow) Actually, it was very comfortable to look at Looked ready for prime time… but no timetable yet

The 4K Problem:While 4K resolution looks incredible, only the newest TV shows and movies are being shot in the new format

The 4K Solution:There were many solutions that UPCONVERT your current Bluerays and TV shows to the 4K UHD resolution, making all content Ultra High Def!

4K Choices… OLED, 3DTV, Curved, Glasses-free 3D…

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Immersive Virtual Reality Gaming

Virtual Reality Matures – Enter… The Oculus Rift

Riding on the tails of its successful Kickstarter campaign(with a goal of $250k, they raised $2.4M), Rift’s Oculus has received praised from nearly every gadget blog

• Delivers full immersion, virtual reality

• Mounted inside a ski-goggle type headset

• Games will allow you to turn and view 360 degrees, has ultra-low latency head tracking

• At a price--- everyone can afford

IllumiRoom: Samsung demonstrates new XBOX experience

Start with Samsung’s Pico projectors…

Add the XBOX gaming console…

And your entire living room is filled with real time gaming graphics, delivering an immersive experience

Microsoft calls this Proof-of-Concept technology: IllumiRoom

The next XBOX is expected to be unveiled in the coming months … with IllumiRoom?

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Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) Tobii – Eye Tracking

Returning to CES after last year… Tobii continues delivering new eye tracking capability. The latest product call “Rex” is a simple device that attaches to a monitor and works alongside Tobii Gaze to track your eyes and allow you to drag things around the screen.

With the $500 SDK, Tobii expects new applications that analyze your gaze… your every eye movement… Analytics, here we go!

Vuzix M100

Vuzix also returns to CES with M100 that takes a page from Google Glasses -“it’s like holding a smart phone screen 14 inches away from your eye… the image just floats there”

Connects to Apple and Android phones via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Can record 720p video; Built in GPS and accelerometer Out by mid 2013 (less than $500)

Intel Perceptual Lab Using voice recognition, facial analysis, gesture controls and 2D/3D

object tracking to further enhance the way we interact

• Lets users switch fluently between keyboards, trackpads, touch screens, voice commands, gestures & eye tracking (Tobii) or use several modes at once

Intel Core Process-based applications (SDK 2013 Beta is free!)

“This could keep laptops relevant, if intuitive applications can be found.”

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HMI 3D Gesture & BCI Sensors

The technology behind 3D motion and gesture control is rapidly advancing beyond what the Kinect (PrimeSense) brought into the home in 2010. Expect to see this technology everywhere…

Leap Motion (Okay… so they were not at CES... But everyone was talking about them)

After years of tedious mathematical research leading to a fundamental scientific breakthrough, Leap’s 3D motion control can detect motion with up to a hundredth of a millimeter, pinpoint accuracy – this translates to 200x the sensitivity of the Xbox Kinect, and for only $70

They are looking for a few hundred developers to get involved with their technology… giving away some 20,000 free SDKs

Brainstorms’ Puzzlebox: a brain-controlled helicopter Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) control using NeuroSky and Emotiv

EEG headsets NeuroSky provides Research-grade (96% accurate) instruments that

measure brainwave EEG and heartbeat ECG signals

• Myndwave Mobile – Check out the world’s first mind-controlled video application that puts users in control of their own movie experiences!

"You can use it to teach children and to help adults keep their brains active.“

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HMI Touch and 3D “Feel” Manipulation

Leonar3Do – Become your Own 3D Producer As last year’s VMI Top CES 2012 Innovation, Leonar3Do continues to

develop intuitive tools that will allow the masses to create 3D images and now…export them to an abundance of 3D printers

• Also, just released their HelloVR, a free app that allows for their 3D interface to be manipulated via smartphone

• Use on any computer; Helps you “feel” the Virtual Object (haptics-like)

• Art of the Possible: Imagine a new, emerging career – art director must produce five sketches at the end of the week for a new customer… he/she can deliver it then in 2D- or better yet, use Leonar3Do and deliver a physical 3D mock-up tomorrow!

MultiTouch Ltd – Well… Multi-touch MultiTaction Oblique Wall consists of 6 MultiTaction Cell 55in

screens to create a 13x9 foot wall with unlimited touch points utilizing 32 infrared cameras behind the screen to detect touches

The experience was FUN! Add eye-tracking… and you’ve got a terrific collaborative tool

Smallest bezel (space between displays) ever

Features “Enriched reality” a recognition capability that can tag specific icons or images to data, such as an email or web addresses

News of Leonar3Do was quickly communicated throughout CES by Bill Weir of ABC and Yahoo! NewsBill Weir’s This Could Be Big segment.

“The coolest innovation… with massive potential…”

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3D Printing – Additive Manufacturing

Cubify Back this year with the Cube 2 and CubeX. Prints with multiple

materials, over 4000 color combinations, and prints parts as large as a basketball

Voted Best Emerging Tech of CES 2013 by CNET

The CubeX allows for Tri, Dual and Single head models

Fully loaded business model: Design, print, join a community…

MakerBot’s Replicator 2X 3D Likely the best known 3D printer on the market, MarkerBot won last

years Emerging Tech Category

Supporting both ABS and PLA plastic and resolutions of 100 microns

Afinia’s H-Series 3D Printer Resolution of 150 microns and $1,500

Under 11 lbs, Easy-to-use 3D Software, model 5 up to 5-inch cubed; 30% strength of injection molded parts

Cubify impressed last year with their original model the Cube, both for purchase or as a service. Last year the base model was $1,300, this years offerings range between $1,300 and $4,000

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Emerging Technology

Liquipel – Water resistant, nano-coating that protects your electronics from all liquids, from water to coffee to wine

While they were an attendee in 2012, this year they brought Liquipel 2.0, said to be 100x more effective than the previous iteration in durability, corrosion resistance and water protection

Liquipel can be applied during the manufacturing process or as a consumer add-on after purchase

The Process takes 20 minutes and is between $60 and $80

Tactus Technologies – Next Gen Haptics Screens Application-controlled, completely transparent physical buttons

that rise up from the touch-screen surface on demand

Compatible with smart phones, tablets, personal navigation systems, gaming devices, etc.

Pictures do not do this technology justice, please check out the YouTube link to see it in action

Nano-coatings applications such as Liquipel far exceed those demonstrated at CES 2012… but consumer electronics aren’t bad! Look for true, water

resistant clothing, building structures and vehicles coming soon.

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CES Winner: Google

Present on more products than anyone else!

Sony’s new Xperia Z Smartphone runs Google’s Android operating system

LG announced seven new HDTVs that have Google

TV embedded

Connected home products such as refrigerators, light bulbs and sound systems

use Google’s Android operating system

Google TV is embedded in devices that come in all shapes and sizes, and at

many different price points

Many car manufactures are using Google Maps in their navigation systems

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Post-PC Era … What's Next?

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Google’s Android operating system dominated mobile devices: Phones, tablets, cars and appliances Microsoft is fighting back with Widows (Nokia Tablets & Phones)

2013 could be quite telling… Can Microsoft even survive?

And what about Apple? Samsung will be taking a big bite out of Apple’s market share Samsung just opened a new R&D center in Menlo Park, California (up

the road from Apple), to “Accelerate Innovation and Drive New business Creation,” specifically in cloud infrastructure, mobile privacy, Internet of Things human interface, and mobile health

Bottom-line, these connected devices are moving into pervasive, ubiquitous computing

ARM vs. x86 Wars… Which processor uses less power? Which processor will drive the future of smart, mobile devices? Intel (Atom) may not be first to the mobile-device and micro-server (for

massively distributed software systems, i.e. Hadoop/Map Reduce) markets … but they will be formidable!

Intel has the know-how and is investing heavily in the fabrication process of its Atom line

2013 could finally see Intel realize new inroads into the energy-thrifty chip market

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Seeing What’s Next, Being What’s Next

If last year was the year of breakthroughs in new Human-Machine Interfaces and Augmented Reality,

2013 will be the year of Immersion and Connectedness!

What’s Next? Why, your Innovation is What’s Next!

If you are interested in personal introductions to Best of the Best partners, or

information about Leadership in Innovation and Technology Adoption,

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Thank you. Cameron Mehin & David Osgood, VMI, 480-488-5707Cameron@e-vmi.com David.Osgood@e-vmi.com

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