New Products from Gilsson Tech
CES, CES 2010 January 7th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
LightTouch from Light Blue Optics
CES, CES 2010 January 7th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
We’ve seen this concept before in the form of a red laser projected image of a keyboard. What makes the LightTouch different is the full color image thats projected.
Light Blue Optics demoed various usage cases, but when questioned they have not even considered military usage.
So lets dare to imagine and think of a possible use case for the LightTouch on the battlefield.
First we’ll explore a possible current scenario. A squadron leaders calls a halt to his unit calling for a map or recon from the unmanned drone he’s sent in. A soldier will run up with either a paper map or an LCD. We can assume the LCD is heavy and very bulky and presume that the map is made of a paper or plastic that’s seen its share of abuse. So what’s the alternative?
Let’s explore the same scenario assuming the squadron leader was equipt with a LightTouch device. He no longer needs to call for anyone, he simply kneels down, clears the ground of small debris and turns on his LightTouch. He now has the ability to quiqly pull up his map or recon video, make his decisions and move on.
With a multi-touch LightTouch the squadron leader can interact with the map, pinch to zoom, pan the image. Now imagine the recon video where he can halt the drone at a safe location zoom in and pan beyond the optic capabilities built into the drone. He can even reposition and control the drone from the same screen.
This idea is not that far fetched as the reference design already has a 2hr battery, is compact, and can handle uneven surfaces.
Tags: battlefield, CES, military, Photo, video
Applications for 3D TV in Military usage
CES, CES 2010 January 7th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Disclaimer: This is a pure opinion piece.
Looking back at all the announcements from yesterday’s press conferences makes one think of what seems to be the theme: 3D TV.
This is an interesting idea that will have to wait to see if the consumers adobt. Only time will tell. But, looking at the military and government sectors one can only imagine the possibilities.
the first use that comes to mind is on sea vessels and aircraft where space is often limited to small screens. Imagine the tactical officer flipping down his 3D display, throwing on his glasses as having a real life view of the battlefield or tactical maps.
Panasonic showed of there all in one 3D camera, so imagine in this case a soldier wearing the camera on the battlefield and beaming the signal back to the mothership. Yes, this may be a bit far fetched and the camera probably needs to be smaller to make this a reality.
Another view of the 3DTV is it’s actual intended use, for home entertainment. But take this idea and apply to the military. On sea vessels one can often wander the ship and see crowds around the TV. Weather their watching the home team game or news, anything from outside is a huge morale boost. So consider how much more of a boost they’ll get when there watching there home team in full 3D and feeling like they’re actually at the game again. Even that 10 second overview shot of the city would bring a huge boost as it would give them a greater sense of home.
So in closing, one can speculate forever, but only time will tell the direction this technology goes.
Tags: 3d, battlefield, CES, military
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Uncategorized January 6th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Sharp press confrence at CES
Uncategorized January 6th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Sharp Press Confrence CES 2010
CES, CES 2010 January 6th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Sharp Press Confrence CES 2010The confrence started of with one of the execs that couldnt even speek english. I could only catch a few words of his speech.
Sharp’s big release was the 4 color pixel displays adding a yellow color. They also went over new features added to AquosNET. They’ve added Netflix streaming and Twitter support.
I understand adding the Netflix into the TV and thats a great feature to have. But why add twitter. Even a die hard fan, why would you want to have your twitter stream up on your new Sharp 68″ TV.
Some other things they mentioned were new LED bulb replacements for the US markeue ray plater.t along with updated blue ray players.
Nothing Jaw dropping.
CISCO CES 2010 Press Conference
Uncategorized January 6th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
This is a short summary post as there was not much here to see.CISCO CES 2010 Press Confrence
This is a short summary post as there was not much here to see.
Cisco CEO John … talked about cisco’s move into the consumer market and how they believed that the consumer market was the next target for Cisco.
They talked about the Flip and the new MinoHD and how popular its becoming. But we’ve already seen the flip and it’s not something new and still has its downsides. Hey, what can you expect for a $100 camera.
The focus of the show was the home video confrencing kit that cisco plans to bring to market. They said field trials will begin spring 2010 so we can expect a lauch by the end of 2010. Again, this is not a new product but rather cisco’s existing stronghold in video confrencing brought over to the consumer market. They slapped a slick UI on it and called it a done deal.
I poked around the PR people to get an accurate answer as far as bandwidth requirements. The only reply I got was that it requires 1.5 mbps symmetrical (up/down). How this possibly makes sense is beyond me as household dynamic broadband is never symmetrical and upload speeds often cap out at 756 kbps, while download speeds get into the 20 MBps.
I also posed the question of what if you actually do have 1.5 MBps up on a home broadband service, what about the other factors in play? The PR rep indicated that that is why cisco is doing the field trials. I think this is another product they are jumping into head first without thinking. They don’t seem to be taking into consideration other network factors that happen on a shared network.
Anyhow, this is becoming more of an opinion piece, but the point is this is looking more like vaporware that will never happen.
Awaiting CES 2010
CES 2010 January 5th, 2010 by Shai Perednik
Currently sitting at John Wayne airport in orange county awaiting my flight.
I’ll be attending the press events today and tomorrow and some press meetings scattered throughout the show.
I plan on posting a daily summary of the things I see along with some detailed posts on the things that catch my eye. I’ll be posting some videos, pictures, and other media.
There’s plenty of CES coverage out there, so I’m going to try to focus on some of smaller things that don’t make it to the big boys.
I’m also attending the show on behalf of my company. So expect coverage on products that have military or government application.
I’ll be posting some video live via ustream or qik so check the YouTube and qik links on the right bar.
Getting ready to board now…
