Tech Trends: Consumer Electronics Show preview
As it does every year, LG, one of the world’s biggest makers of liquid crystal displays, is at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas showing off screens of all different shapes, sizes and abilities.
A “rollable” TV is reportedly part of LG’s presentation, and the technology giant are also set to announce a new line-up of televisions in their CES press conference later.
“It is the best technology show in the world and we are producing beer technology so it’s a flawless show for us”, said Dr Bill Mitchell, who was previewing personalised microbrewery Pico Brew. It expects US consumers to purchase about $1.2 billion worth of smart home products this year, up 18 percent from 2015.
Smartphones and pill computer systems have been anticipated to account for forty six % of the cash spent this yr on consumer electronics, however new classes resembling “wearables”, drones and digital actuality gear must be making their presence felt out there, in accordance with Koenig.
The firm says the creation enables users to “physically feel everything taking place on your screen”, and can also be used with virtual reality headsets.
When mobile computers such as laptops are included with smartphones and tablets, the share of sales in the year was predicted to be 58 per cent or some US$551 billion. “I offer you know-how’s triumvirate: laptops, smartphones and tablets”. Controlled by a small handheld device or smartphone app, the Blink travels up to 12mph and takes its cues from last year’s most talked about product, RocketSkates.
Smartphone adoption is being pushed by progressively lower prices, which is especially important in markets such as China, Africa, and the Middle East where high-end handsets are out of reach for many people.
The overall category of wearable computers, which includes smartwatches, should continue its “meteoric rise” and there is to be “no shortage” of wearable computing gadgets on the CES show floor, which officially opens today, Koenig said.
Emerging markets have been seen as persevering with to be central to progress within the consumer electronics market, with India turning into a driving drive as China shifts to decrease, regular progress after a long term of booming enlargement. The immersive audio, high definition audio is a new experience. “Then there is the newer categories like driverless cars, the connected cars, the drones, robotics, 3D printing as well as the Internet of Things (IOT)”.