Virtual Reality is moving closer & closer & closer to Reality

2015 BUZZ WORDS ARE

Virtual Reality again this year

4K Everything

Connected Cars 2.0

Sensor Fusion

3D Printers

Wireless Everything

IOT = Internet of Things

Virtual Laser Keyboard

4G Cameras and TVs

Robots and more Robots

Drones and their cameras

Seamless video in HD, 4G over Wi-Fi

Smart Watches

MEMS-Based Sensors

Gyroscopes guiding electronics

Wearable Technology

Augmented Reality

Smart-Everything

Paperless Life

The Connected Home

Headphones and Speakers

Solar Powered Chargers

Track yourself...Track your life

TV Set Top Boxes

Fitness Trackers

Head Mounted Virtual Reality

More INTERNET OF EVERYTHING

Crowdsourcing

Cloud Apps

Driverless Cars

Quantum-dot-technology

Electronic devices that are powered

by users own energy

Mobile + Cloud + broadband = the future

Smart Diet Scales

21st Century Musical Instruments

Wearables for home, sports and work

LAS VEGAS — Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is a thoughtful, low-key sort

who cut his teeth in engineering. The guts of a product — not the

prestige of his title — is what motivates him.

So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that he spun his keynote speech Tuesday night around emerging technology that wows consumers yet hews to a corporate strategy.

"We work out a story line where we give people a view of the future" that is also practical in their lives, Krzanich told USA TODAY in an interview Wednesday morning at the Intel booth.

2015 will mark the most significant year in consumer-tech advancements since 1995, with the emergence of the first commercial web browsers and the debut of the Pentium Pro chip, he says. from CES

Millennials: Big On Streaming,

But Still WatchTrad TV

LAS VEGAS — A breakdown of younger TV-media consumer behavior shows some differences when it comes to streaming and time-shifted programming.

A new study from Consumer Electronics Association and NATPE, conducted by E-Poll Market Research, shows Gen Xers — those consumers older than millennials — tend to be the heaviest users of their time-shifted TV when it comes to video-on-demand usage: 76% use their VOD service once a week or more often, similar to their subscription video on demand usage.

Millennials — those age 13-34 — are among the largest group when it comes to streaming, and are significantly more likely to consume full-length TV programs from a streaming source: 84% have streamed in the past six months; 54% have seen live TV programming at its original air time; and 33% have viewed recorded content from a DVR.

C/NET COVERS PRESS DAY

Wired picks Acer Chromebook 15 as a Top Pick at CES 2015...

Once solely the domain of the early tech adopters, Chromebooks have hit the big time. Really Big. Acer's 15 inch Chromebook 15

has a HD didplay and Intel's Broadwell-series processor, all in

more productiviy- and entertainment-friendly size. It's on of the most luxe Chromebooks to date. Pricing starts at $250 for the

720 screen, but consider upgrading to the 1080 IPS display.

START UP...DIGITAL AND SILICON VALLEY TALK WITH

MORE OF THE "CONTENT IS KING" MOVING TO THE FLOOR

As more digital devices that debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas get into the hands of customers, those products are turning more people into storytellers. “Silicon Valley has democratized storytelling,” said Sam Olstein, global director of innovation at General Electric, during a CES panel on fostering creativity. “Anyone with a phone can build and tell a story. All of a sudden now, there are so many unique personalities who are embracing technology and their own voice.”

Camera maker GoPro, in particular, was cited as a “classic example” of a tool that has leveled the playing

field for storytellers. “It’s one of the coolest tools to make anybody a content creator,” Olstein said, and a potentially powerful entertainment network as it creates a distribution pipeline for its videos online, through videogame consoles, on airlines and through smart TVs.

CES spotlight startup entrepreneurs and innovation across the technology spectrum in an expanded Eureka Park Marketplace at CES Tech West. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)^® today also announced new areas and events at CES dedicated to the startup community, including the Startup Stage. Owned and produced by the CEA, the 2015 CES will run January 6-9, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

AUTO'S AND TECHNOLOGY A HUGE SEGMENT OF CES 2015...WE BRING YOU

JUST A SAMPLE, AND WORTH SEARCH IF YOU WANT MORE BEYOND TOYOTA

1) Technology is killing cable bundles. Brad Reed of Boy Genius Report couldn't have said it any better: "The cable bundle is rapidly becoming a thing of the past." One of the biggest launches of CES 2015 was Dish Network's Sling TV, a $20 a month Web TV service that comes with ESPN, Disney, CNN, Food Network, TBS, Cartoon Network, and other channels. It's potentially game changing. In addition, almost every new TV shown at CES came integrated with Hulu Plus, Netflix, and other Web TV services. TV is far from dead, but cable bundles are destined to die a slow, painful death.