Boulder Open Podcast, Episode 8: The Dave at CES Edition. Several trends have emerged. 3D Television, E-Book readers and more. Amazon was the best selling device at Amazon over Christmas. Amazon sold more electronic books than paper books. Every vendor that's showing off 3D TV has specialized glasses. Boo. Once there's a standard, this will make more sense. Dave says it'll actually take root when you don't have to wear glasses at all. Technicolor is making that happen (but only for a private audience right now). It only works in 7inch screens or less. comcast has upgraded to DOCSIS 3 - which makes Michael's download speed 35Mbps. CES is for the industry, not the public. Product buyers, and their teams are the focus of the show. Dave met a guy from Radio Shack and reminds us that they're actually a retail powerhouse. ZigBee is a standard for monitoring your home power use. The device fits between the device and the outlet allowing you to see how much every outlet consumes. You can remotely turn off appliances, and even tell it to turn off certain appliances within a time window. Studies show that people that monitor their electrical usage have lower bills. Imagine if everyone then watched their consumption. It comes down to paying attention, doesn't it? Dave's Smart Grid Test isn't really all that smart. It shuts your air conditioner off for a hour during high demand times. Granular controls like this will change everything. It's a much bigger industry this year over last. TVs - imagine a Best Buy TV wall on steroids. It's as big as a city block with 250 screens wide. It's mindnumbingly amazing. Dave's uploaded photos of the whole thing. ( See http://j.mp/d0ZpW9 for pictures ) . The friends he brought had a tough time with the enormity. iPhoto hasn't been upgraded to match the new permissions within Facebook.
That's a wrap. You can find Dave at
http://davetayloronline.com and Michael at
http://friendmichael.com . You can find the show at
http://boulderopenpodcast.com, iTunes, and
http://callisto.fm
