Huge crowds and a little bit more talk about new gadgets, are back at the Consumer Electronics Show, when two years of recession put a damper on the event in Las Vegas, which runs Thursday through Sunday.
Businesses use the relentless improvements in semiconductor and other components to make many of their gadgets for smarter, sleeker, smaller. Unless the gadgets are TVs. Then more "greatest" of 7 ½ feet in the case of 92-inch 3-D TV that the unit of Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp., on display this week.
However, for all his hyperbole about Tablet PCs and Smartphones, most of the products presented this year are improvements of existing ideas rather than the pitchers who innovate. Sometimes, the main innovation is the price, as in the case of Vizio Inc. plan to sell a small 3-D TV for under $ 300 a category where supply routinely start at more than $ 1000 . A sample of newly listed Price:
Sony HDR-TD10
What it is: a handheld video camera 3-D
Price: $ 1.500
Available: April 2011
Noah's Ark is the consumer video cameras are the two. All major components of the video camera come in pairs: two glasses, two image sensors, two image processors.
This means video recorded with this camera can be viewed in high definition 3-D screens with the use of glasses. But if your TV does not display 3-D will play the same video in high definition 2-D on a conventional HD TVs. 3.5-inch screen The camera is capable of playing video 3-D without needing special glasses. It has 64 GB of memory.
Sony Corp., says the HDR-TD10 is the first "double full HD camcorder for consumers. But you may feel you've seen before: Like cousins camera in 3-D for professionals, has an amazing resemblance to the character of Pixar's Wall-E.
