CES Roundup!

January 18th, 2012

Well, we survived Vegas!

International CES is now the biggest electronics show in the world having developed over 40 years. CES was fantastic this year, attracting a record number of attendees and exhibitors alike. This year, over 150,000 people attended CES and over 3,000 companies exhibited, demonstrating more than 20,000 products. There were launches from Intel, LG Electronics, Nokia, Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung and Sony to name just a few.

With the vast number of attendees and products on show, there was a real buzz at the four day event and it was a great atmosphere within which to show off Golden-i. We joined Kopin on the Verizon stand, the largest mobile phone carrier in the US, demonstrating the Golden-i headset. Ikanos, along with one of the Kopin engineers, developed a suite of demonstration software specifically for CES, showing a few exciting use-case examples of Golden-i in action.

With the power of Verizon’s 4G LTE, we demonstrated how Golden-i can help with public safety, part of a wider Verizon demonstration showing an entire public safety infrastructure. In our demonstration, a security guard at a large public venue could utilise Golden-i to respond to a missing child alert, and could bring up all relevant information relating to the alert. Additionally, the security agent could access the security feeds from the venue (we demonstrated this by accessing the feed from a camera attached to the Verizon booth and controlling the camera’s tilt, pan and zoom via voice control).

Golden-i had a fantastic impact at the conference, and everyone was impressed how advanced the system is. We are eagerly anticipating working on Golden-i over the coming months ready for release!