CES 2011 Recap
After a whirlwind weekend of electronic nerdophilia, I’m back in the land of normal sized TVs and stable internet connections to share my thoughts on the connected TVs, Tablet, and Interfaces I encountered at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.
While I would have loved to have posted my thoughts earlier, apparently packing 140,000 technophiles into an area doesn’t do wonders for the local internet service. Shocker right? To recap the last post, I was looking for three big trends at CES: Internet Television, Tablets, & Natural User Interfaces. While I wasn’t blown away or shocked by what I saw there were some interesting developments with long term effects for advertisers and consumers alike. There were also some curious oddities that stuck out to me that you may not hear about elsewhere… I’ll get into those later.
As the younger generation becomes more tech savvy, it is no surprise that the online community is speculating that the iPad will become the ‘Toy of the Year’. This seems a bit outlandish, thinking that small children would be interested in a portable computer, but parents are finding that this is the perfect device. It is small and travels easily, making entertainment for the little ones easy to take anywhere. Most surprising however, is that the tots can navigate through it by themselves.