The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 promises to be more exciting this year as the event focuses on the top trend in consumer electronics today – the Internet of Things.
The Internet of Things was recently coined to refer to the concept of a world full of connected electronic devices which can be controlled from a consumer-friendly hub, like a smartphone app for instance.
Expected to draw more than 150,000 visitors, the International CES 2015 will be held in Las Vegas from January 6 to 9, 2015 and shall occupy over two million square feet of exhibition space to cater to the product displays of more than 3,500 companies from all over the world.
Big rebound
Tech Gen Mag cites that the event would like to make a big rebound this year following a so-so showing last year compared to 2013, which carried more excitement.
Last year’s CES was a bit of a disappointment to many techno whizzes and buffs whose lives revolve mostly around gadgets and gizmos. The only highlights were the curved TVs introduced by LG, the debut of Nvidia’s Tegra mobile processor, the latest streaming device on Sony’s PlayStation, and Hollywood director Michael Bay delivering the keynote hardly saying anything significant or substantial to the technology world.
Gizmodo says that the fun in CES is to actually see unexpected products doing unimaginable things. But basing on the theme of the Internet of Things this year, people would expect to see connected homes, activity trackers, TVs loaded with so-called quantum dots, or even cars that can drive fine on its own, and more.
In addition, there’s also the possible launching of the new flagship smartphones from Sony and Xiaomi to look forward to as well.
New high-tech gadgets to expect
For sure, there would be lots of new things to see and be awed in the International CES 2015. But as a matter of preview, here are some of the high-tech gadgets and gizmos that people would be seeing during the four-day event.
• Samsung’s Tizen devices. – The Korean tech giant will unveil a 20.3-MP camera and a smart TV with Tizen as the operating system. Samsung already launched a Tizen-powered smartphone last year with Samsung Z.
• LG’s quantum dots TV. – Forget about the curved TVs and OLED it launched last year, LG will now be employing quantum dots whose color are emitted by changing the size of nanoparticles.
• LG’s WebOS 2.0 for smart TV line. – A redefining moment for the future of smart TVs in the world.
• Xiaomi to unveil Mi5. – Xiaomi, regarded as the Apple of China, will be launching its latest bezel-free flagship smartphone called Mi5.
• Sony to unveil Xperia Z4 too. – While this has yet to be confirmed as Sony has only released a compact video thus far, but it does look like it will be rolling out its Xperia Z4 flagship smartphone.
• Intel to unveil 14nm Broadwell processor. – This will touch off point of 13 variants of the chipset to be launched all in the first quarter of 2015.
• Nvidia to launch GTX960 video card. – The graphics card will run cooler and will consume less power than its predecessors.
• Gigabyte to unveil X99 SoC Force motherboard. – The motherboard with the best overclocking in the world is preparing for the roll out of the new Intel chipsets.