CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2015

CES i.e. consumer electronics show touted as one of the biggest electronics show in the starting of year. Usually, the CES actually takes place in January, in Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas – Nevada. It has been around the corner since 1967, which showcased the world’s first cathode ray tube T.V.’s to the present curved display OLED 8K content T.V. sets. Though currently we don’t possess the infrastructure to view actually the 4K contents but time again such show bring us to notice the heights to which technology and science can actually reach. The show isn’t actually limited to what we say Electronics i.e. smartphones, smart T.V.s or even Smart Watches, it also did showcase some very great automobiles and their concepts though they are illegal on the streets for time being but they will be around the corner very soon. So let’s go through the brief of what happened this CES:

• ·         Smartphones:

The bar is rising every 2 months, who said that mobiles these days are an investment, right now its fashion. You buy a flagship and a month later they get is updated with a RAM, Processor or Graphic Rendering GPU. It’s a world full of smartphone addiction. This CES LG launched a successor to its old and mighty LG G Flex. Though the present specs are different but still it supports just 1080p. Bad isn’t it? While here we have phones which have Quad HD display. But yes we say” To get something in life you have to give something” and yes it’s true the organic LED (OLED) renders graphics so very well that its gives you very immersive experience. Moreover, we heard the launch of pretty good smartphones from Huawei too. We also had the launch of very famous Xiaomi MI5 on January 15^th. Apart from that KODAK the famous handy camera makers also announced their own smartphone! (Looks like everybody is getting on the smartphones bandwagon). The launched phones were Asus Zenphone2, Yota Phone2 (Must watch), HTC Desire 826 and many more.

·          Television Sets:

Who doesn’t like spending Sundays just in your pajamas and watching a good action flick for boys or your favorite soap Opera Rerun! The mere thought is exhilarating isn’t it? The popcorn and your Sofa. So, to hold you to your seats and give you and experience of lifetime Samsung and LG too introduced more 4K content for your television sets(because they are very costly and you have nothing to watch in it, sad isn’t?). We also saw a bit of 8K and 6K T.V.s too! Please don’t ask me what its use is. Because my reply is it’s an electronics show and they are going to sweep you off your feet. And those actually did!! They also did announce a 5mm television set and it was none other but Sony! (Do you know how thin 5mm is? Take a scale and measure it).

• ·         Automobiles:

The Automobiles sector just stole the show with what they had to offer. The BMW released their much awaited concept cars, which to auto stop when they see and obstacle and yes you could also call your car from where you are standing! It’s just like a Bat Mobil (how cool does it sound!). And BMW releases something Mercedes can never be far behind, it too launched some pretty impressive cars - Cars with actually LASER Lamps that automatically focus on the part of road and intelligently adjusts according to the height of user, so that the light doesn’t affect the eyes of the cars coming from other lanes (Though laser lamps are banned in USA, but for the time being these models will be sold in rest of Europe). Later they introduced rear lamps with LED which can be programmed to reflect the way we like it to be. Another customizability- pretty cool, though! While Hyundai too gave it Android Auto Demo giving support to Android to its newer versions.

• ·         Robots:

The CES also saw the display of a robot who could play you a Piano and yes it was just in a form of Human Being! It sounds creepy but you won’t feel it because you can turn it off with a switch!! This rather a very limited section for the time being but it will boom quite soon. With smart homes around the corner.

·         Smart Watches:

Smart Watches has been stealing the show since quite lot of time with MOTO 360, LG G watch and the Samsung’s whole cavalry of fitness bands (P.S. forgot to mention Sony too). Yet with these around the corner some companies did manage to showcase some watches, but they didn’t manage to steal the light!

• ·         Processor:

The most awaited QUALCOMM Launched its Snapdragon 810 processor with LG G Flex 2, the 64-bit support to Android smartphones, quite a long time when Apple launched its own 64-bit computing to its iPhones. The 810 SoC coupled with Adreno 430 will always be a gamers dream and with such timeless masterpiece of graphic rendering on the mobile phones.

Thus, they were a huge list of exhilarating products around the CES 2015 but as the definition of progress goes” There is still a bit place of improvements” and as we keep on pushing these boundaries we rediscover ourselves and where we can actually go and where science can take us. But the judicious use of these technologies can take us to newer height and yet their detrimental use can shun our growth. But we all know that “Our limits are actually decided by our mindsets”.

Thus, I hereby sign off to DEVELOPMENT….