Hey everybody it's Lon Seidman We're here with dispatch number two from CES 2017
We're beginning the day at central hall, and I'll tell you more about central hall in a second
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So central hall is where a lot of the bigger brands are
Located so we took a look at the Intel booth a little while ago. It's hard to even walk in there
There's so many people these booths are rather opulent
But they are that way for two reasons one is to impress the media obviously so you can see all the new products that are
On display for your consumption later in the year, but also because this show is about deal-making, too
so all the big brands are
meeting with each other and
Making all the deals that will go into products that we might see two or three years down the road so your presence here at
The show and how big it looks is important to impress potential partners as well as perhaps to intimidate your competitors
So that's why?
These companies invest so much in these booths and some of them
Might run in upwards of a million dollars or more to set up. It's pretty crazy, but with 160,000 people here at CES
They probably considered a pretty good investment and just as an example of booths opulence. Let's take a look at Sony here
They have like a huge section of the convention hall here, and they've done like some construction here, too
So have you got the ceiling and it looks like they've got some load-bearing?
walls on this thing too that
Really just shows you how much?
Investment these companies make in marketing their products because one of the things about CES as I mentioned earlier
It's not just about your your partners and your competitors
it's also about retailers because
people who are making buying decisions
For the coming year are also coming here to look at the product line and figure out what they may want to add to their
Store shelves this year as well
So the stakes are very high and sony at least in my experience here at CES always has probably the most ridiculously large booth
so we're in here at the canon booth and one of the things I've been following over the last couple of years is the
Development of camcorders because I use a lot of camcorders on the channel in fact
This version is actually the newer version of what I use in the studio
This is the H FG 40 and then some of the other cameras
I've used in the past are some of the low-end ones like this one. This is the HFR 82 now
It's been really intriguing to me over the last highly three or four years
I've been following Canon and Sony and developing these camcorders
Especially the low end ones is that they haven't changed all that much. There's really no new features
They've maybe tweaked the sensors a little bit added some battery life
But by and large the cameras you're buying today are very similar to the ones you may have
Maybe looking at three or four years ago
So one of the things that I recommend often with camcorders like these is if you can find the previous
version of it you'll get them at a pretty good price especially as
They begin to cycle their inventory over to the new cameras so most of these low end ones are still 1080p
They do do 60 frames per second recording, but really not much of an improvement there
I was actually surprised that the HFG 40 which is their top-of-the-line consumer model still isn't doing 4k either alright?
So we're over at the Panasonic booth
And this is a new headset that they're developing that solves a problem that I've seen with a lot of VR
Headsets and that you don't get a lot of your peripheral Wow a lot of your peripheral vision
Included in a normal VR mode so right now
I'm seeing a more realistic
VR image because my peripheral vision is also getting something they've got a pretty cool lens in here that allows it to
Kind of wrap around your entire field of vision what they're doing in my headset right now is showing me traditional VR
and then this new extended version
There is a line kind of in the center of the headset here
But really it's it's it's really cool to get this wide of a range of field of vision
That's one of the things I have an HTC vive and one of the things with the vibe that
I have not liked is that the field of vision is a little narrower than I would like so really the only the darker scenes
Look realistic to me because it's black this one obviously is a very brightly lit scene that I'm looking at right now
And it really does look pretty cool
So this is emerging technology not yet a product, but pretty cool stuff to see peripheral vision making its way into VR
So we are now at the Sands Convention Center
This is across the street from the main CES activities. Where all those big booths
Are we're in the little area now because this is where all of the
Young and hungry and scrappy startups are located trying to find investors and customers for their products. We're gonna go through here
We're not going to to everything
I'm sure because we only have a few hours left in the day here
but
We may come back
Because this is where all the cool and unique stuff that you've never heard of before will be found we're gonna go look for some
Of it right now, so we're taking a look at the spirit cam. This is not inexpensive
It's going to cost about two thousand dollars
But this is where I think you have to go with these VR
immersive video because we're seeing a lot of these single sensor cameras this one has a
Sensor for every lens that you see on the camera here
Which means that when you do your 360 video it actually will look a lot better and have much higher resolution
That's why I like this and one of the things I like about these all-in-one
Packages is that you don't have to buy a bunch of GoPros and a rig and everything you can just buy a single device out
Of the box and get things going they also say that it will do real-time
Stitching at 30 frames per second inside the camera 60 frames per second if you've got a beefy laptop
So now we're here with the tiny one and if you've ever tried to take
photos at night
You know it's a rather difficult thing sometimes to get the stars
In your shots kind of like some things that we see on these boards here, and this camera is designed
To allow you to do Astro photography out of the box
So you don't have to really configure much the camera is geared to do that so you I guess on the back here there will
be a display that will give you the Stars that you can align with the
Cameras image to get pictures of what you're looking to get so you can tell the camera hey
I want to go see this thing
It'll direct you to point the camera in the right direction and then it'll fire off a picture and you'll get things like you see
Here on these boards here, so of course you'll probably get a better image with a really high-end
DSLR and some professional skills behind it, but if you want to get into Astro photography
I always like cameras and other devices that give you kind of a
An entry-level to something more complicated a way to learn with basic hardware
Then you can take those skills over to more complex things, so I found another cool thing if you are a photographer
This is called the unleash and it's from fool ography, and it's just little tiny connector
They make one for the Canon cameras also
Just plugs right into the side of your camera the port powers it and you can do a whole bunch of control of your camera
With the device so you could set it up for night
Photography like we saw with another camera that was designed just to do that you could take your SLR plug it in here
I'll link it up with an app they got the app running here on the side
So have some of it works
and it will actually allow you to adjust exposure based on the time of day to be doing a
Day to night kind of time-lapse photography
Session it will adjust the exposure for you automatically which is cool and also geo tags photoes
Which is a big thing for me because I have a older Nikon camera that doesn't have GPS
Onboard I always want to know where my cameras my photos were taken so this will pass that data back from your phone
and I'm guessing it goes over Bluetooth Low Energy to do all of that so you can pre-order this right now for a hundred and
Forty nine dollars, and they've got a version for a Canon and for a Nikon
So we're here looking at the ZEIT DICE, and this is a time-lapse camera
So what you do with this thing is you set it up somewhere
And it just takes a picture at a certain interval and stores them and then after that period of time has happened you can then
Compile them into a video and what's unique about this is that it's got a long lasting battery and it shoots at 1080p
So you will get a full 1080p video out of it when you're done the battery will last about three months on this thing on
A charge given that it's just taking a picture every so often
But you can also plug it into USB or attach a solar panel to it and have it kind of go
Indefinitely and the price on this right now for pre-order is $279
It's gonna go up to $299 after it comes out you can find it at
Zeitgeist com we are now over at the mera book booth because they've got a pretty neat idea here
And I think there's another company doing something similar to this so this is a laptop shell
essentially and what you do is connect up a
Smartphone to it and the smartphone ends up powering the laptop components
So you don't have to have two different devices essentially this is kind of a blank shell this particular version here is
Windows continuum compatible to give a Windows Phone
You'll be able to run your universal apps on a larger screen with a laptop interface
They also have an Android version
Which will overlay some b-roll on for you that one works off of an app that you load on your phone
And it gives you a desktop interface with a bunch of different apps built into a web browser and a few other
Minor apps on that side like the Windows one might be a little more useful
But kind of neat to see phones now powering laptops to some degree these guys are launching an IndieGoGo campaign
It's gonna cost $299 later in the year
But I often like to look at you know these crowd funds and things that actually have a working prototype
So that's what we're seeing here. I got the Android version over there that and this one here. They both work
So that's why we're talking about it all right, so this is something
I can't get close enough to put myself in front of the camera on but this is called the keno mo and what these are
Little fans that have LED lights on the front of them and as they turn they're able to generate these
amazingly clear and almost three-dimensional images
They really stick out because the fans of course are sticking out a bit from the wall here
But the fans turn so fast that you really don't see the fan turning so these images look like they just kind of float in
Air so really cool stuff
Keno, mo I don't know if I would have any use for this at home
But I'm very much impressed with the clarity of the image. We're getting some synchronization issues with the cameras
They look a little more flickery on camera than they do in person
So we're seeing some retro stuff including a lot of turntables here at the show this one kind of stood out for me
because it has
Vacuum tube amplifiers on it
This is really cool
So this will playback Bluetooth and a whole bunch of other stuff the amplifier is built-in so you can run things into it
You can bring your music over wirelessly to it, and it will play your records, but it's very expensive. It's about
$3,000 for the entry-level version so that will cost you a little bit, but it's got wood grain
Which I think is pretty cool the other neat thing is they have a carbon fiber?
Arm here for the record player
Which is also kind of nice to see so a little bit of a modern touch on a very?
Retro piece of gear so here's a cool thing. I just stumbled across
This is called the free right and maybe it's my advanced age that makes me attracted to these retro styled products
But this is a really just a word processor
It's got an e-ink display on there with a mechanical keyboard
And if you are looking for a distracted free write writing this might be the way to go
But it also connects up with Wi-Fi so you can have it upload your completed
documents or your in progress documents at the Dropbox so that you can get at those files on your
Distraction filled computer a little later on it costs a $4.99. It's available right now over at get free write. Calm pretty cool product
All right
So we're at the anywhere solutions booth that you have a really neat little IOT thing that caught my eye
Love these light bulbs that you can do controlling functions with and this one is a little socket that you put into your lamp
Essentially it's got the standard light bulb adapter there
And it does a home security monitoring it does
air quality monitoring and a couple of other things including the ability to measure how much electricity the light is using and
Control of the light it's self, and then you take out one of these bulbs and these are commercially available
I didn't realize these existed
But these are tiny little light bulbs that have the same brightness as the bigger ones
That one will screw into the top of this bulb here
And you can get a fully functional light bulb
And they might be looking to sell this or provide this through utility carriers initially, but if it does make a consumer entrance
It'll be about $70 for the socket itself and you have to buy the light bulb separately alright so over here at smash toast
That's the name of the company
They got something here called the puck and I kind of like simple things
And this is a simple thing so what this does is it works as an IR blaster for your home theater and television
Components, so what you do is you get it in proximity to your devices it works over Bluetooth Low Energy to a smart phone
right now iPhone only
But they said Android is coming so stop complaining down in the comment stream
And what you do is just set it up in front of there get a program
Then it will allow you to control all of your components through a single app and these little guys are available for
$30 each on get puck comm and you can support a bunch of different devices on here as you can see
Here's another interesting a little thing I stumbled across
this is called the Keisel and what this is is a
way of using public
Hotspots more securely so if you are on Wi-Fi and you're on like the Starbucks thing or something that doesn't have a wpa password
your Wi-Fi
Is getting pretty much transmitted out to everyone that is in listening distance of that radio signal so what they've done with this device pretty
simple actually is it acts as a proxy server so it connects to the public Wi-Fi and then it tunnels your traffic through a
secure VPN
So nothing that you transmit is seen by others in the room with you, which is pretty good
If you've got sites that are not using secured
SSL encryption for your passwords and whatnots pretty simple device it also doubles as a little portable charger
He says he'd get about 16 hours of usage out of it
So what you would do with this is when you show up to the Starbucks turn it on connect to it
and then it will tunnel through the
The Internet to their private VPN server so nice little security thing especially if you're a road warrior
And the keys will sells for $149, and there is a five dollar monthly fee for the VPN service alright
So now we're over taking a look at the spud. This is one of these things
I backed on Kickstarter, so will it be having a review of it when it comes out. They're coming out pretty soon
I got George here is going to tell me with a demonstration
But what this is is a kind of like a portable projection screen back?
Projected so you can take this out and add a larger screen to your workspace if you want they've got a prototype shiny exterior
Eye, they're going to replace that with a matte one the challenges
They've told me is that getting these things to not wrinkle is a real challenge
But they're matte display will ship with it so George is gonna collapse it real quick, and show you how it collapses down
And they're still operating with it
But basically what you do is fold it up and put it into a small bag
So a lot more portable than you might have with a monitor obviously because you can fit it in a bag
So it's not that big like a size of maybe a decent sized hardcover book
I guess right and then it just pops back out and you're back up and running again
So kind of a neat way to add a second display these will retail over $499
It'll be released later this year all right, so that's gonna wrap up day two here at CES
And we had a long day today
I'm not sure how long this video is going to be, but I imagine it going to be taking a long time to upload
Over the hotel Wi-Fi when I get back, so we'll do more tomorrow
I'm not sure exactly what I'll have tomorrow because I have a few meetings that might
Make it difficult for me to get to as many things as I would like to but I'm definitely gonna be spending a lot of
Time on Saturday wrapping up the shows we saw a lot of cool stuff today
I'd love to hear what your thoughts were on it again
I'm looking for things that are not being covered as much by other media
Outlets cuz there's certainly a lot of coverage out there
And I want to be unique in what I cover so let me know what you thought of today's dispatch a lot of you liked
Yesterday's and wanted more, so now you got more. Let me know if this was too much
We'll have. I think what I'll probably do is compile all this footage up in more searchable and digestible bites
I'm not sure where I'll put that just yet, but I threw a lot of stuff at youth today
So I do want to find a way to organize all of it when we are done
So I'd love to have your feedback and we will see you all tomorrow. This is Lon Seidman
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