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CES Show Report : Part 1
Well - it takes a little while to digest CES - the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas every year at the start of the year. And of course, typically after you get back from any travel you have a backlog of "other work" to do - and so - time passes. So I'm only now getting around to putting some detail down of what I saw at CES.
Rather than cram everything in to one post, I'll do a few small ones. So let's start.
Bluetooth was *everywhere* at CES. And as a sure sign of success for a technology, it's moving firmly from that "zowee - it works!" stage to the more mundane, accepted, everyday ordinary-ness stage. You know, the way we now treat electricity and phone systems? Well it's not there yet - but is surely headed that way. Good news for Bluetooth and a sign of the Bluetooth SIG playing a very sure-footed game as they continue to embrace and extend in the short range wireless space, while continuing to do to competing things with the standard : innovate to add features, while simplifying the end-user experience.
As I say - we're not there yet - especially on the "simplify" side of things, but excellent progress being made. I expect 2009 to be a good year for Bluetooth in general, especially in gaming, automotive, and of course, the stalwarts of phones and headsets.
Speaking of headsets, I'll do a round up of headsets from the show in a separate post, but as a taster, check out these puppies from Plantronics: The new Backbeat 906's - stereo, lightweight, and very very tasty. They come with an adapter for turning your ornery audio device into an A2DP source, and look beautiful. Plantronics have a reputation for sound quality, so if they've pulled this off with this pair - they're on to a winner. Me want :-)
(That's the adapter on the table)