Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

“VMI’s Best of the Best”

By Vanguard Marketing International, Inc.

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Welcome!

State of Innovation: 2015 Consumer Electronics Show

• CES attracts the “who’s who” of the technology and related industries.

• Continues to include C-level executives from the entertainment, mobile and consumer electronics industries.

170,000+ visitors from 144 Countries

40,828 international attendees

6,575 media

• Number of Years VMI has attended CES

• The VMI team has canvassed CES in Las Vegas to bring you

their pick of top innovations and enabling technologies: See What’s Next, Be What’s Next!

20th

3,673 exhibiters, 2.06 millions net sf

20,000+ new products were announced

8 Top Federal Government Agencies

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“During the Cold War, innovation was largely driven by investments from

the military and domestic defense industry and produced technologies specifically designed for defense purposes.

By contrast, innovation today is increasingly driven by the commercial sector

and produces technologies that must be adapted for defense purposes after production.” -Center for a New American Security; June 2014

The 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show displayed technology breakthroughs in industries such as assisted/autonomous automobiles, 3D

printing, materials, wearables, analytics, drones, sensors etc.

VMI attends CES to discover leading edge innovations being introduced into the consumer market and to assess their potential cross-industry applications.

Why Focus on CES?

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• Wearables are not just about tracking steps anymore… it’s about heart rates, pulses oximeters, and a whole host of extremely complex technologies – making their way to us!

• Smart glasses/goggles are driving a new wave in acquisitions for immersive gaming and an emerging guided workplace

• Consumer drones are here; dependent upon FAA approval – but commercial interests will get their way

• Internet of Things… Embedded sensors will be in everything… but privacy and data ownership issues need worked out and standards developed

• More defense companies –domestic & international are trying their hand in the consumer industry: FLIR, Vorbeck, Torquing Group, and others

2015 Exhibitors and Observations

2015 Observations • Wearables market growing at 133%

• Smartwatches, health & biotech, fitness trackers

• 2015 Consumers expected to spend $103 million on drones, up from $69 million in 2014 • Next 5 years: Global drone industry > $1 billion

• Smartphones to grow 5% and account for 23% of the overall consumer electronics market

• $2.2 Big Data Analytics Market growing at 26% CAGR through 2018; Data volume will grow 50x by 2020

• Tablets expected to decline

• TVs & Displays to decline • But, 4K UHDTV to increase 106%

(price drops as low as $1,000 for a 55”)

• 3D printing exhibitors at CES 2015 doubles in size • 1 in 2009 - Makerbot, 27 exhibitors in 2014

• CES 2015: 375 Startups & Kickstarters vs. 220 in 2014

“BEST OF THE BEST” - THE TOP INNOVATIONS

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VMI’s 2015 CES Best of the Best Highlights

• 3D Printing: MarkForge, Voxel8 • Materials: Graphene Frontiers, Vorbeck • Mobile Processor: NVIDIA • Panasonic/SAP Sports Analytics • WiTricity • Kodak’s 360 degree HD action video camera

• Assisted driving is going mainstream – autonomy becoming an accepted vision • Inexpensive 3-D printing going beyond just plastic - MakerBot using PLA composite

filaments made with real metal, stone and wood • More and more devices partnering with Google’s Nest- “Works with Nest” initiative • Analytics is everywhere… biometrics, emotional, cognitive… in sports, entertainment

and gaming! • Increasing autonomy-commercial drones seeing and sensing environments (the

Micro Drone 3.0, Hubsan Drones) with the ability to swarm (Zano Nano), and equipped with more sensors (Infrared, GPS, 360° HD Cameras, etc)

• Sony, LG, Samsung… all offering GoPro knock-offs; How long will GoPro last?

The 2014 Top Picks

• FLIR ONETM Thermal Imaging Accessory

• IoTS: 94Fifty Basketball, Xensr & PrioVR!

• Digital Health & Human Performance

• NanoportTM by Nano Magnetics Ltd

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Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)

MarkForged Carbon-Fiber 3D Printer

• World’s 1st carbon-fiber, 3D printer using continuous carbon fiber, fiberglass and

Kevlar® ($5,000 Mark One 3D printer, uses patented process)

• Eiger software automatically determines best layout for fiber-based materials; allows

control over strength and flexibility of your parts

• Team experienced in designing and manufacturing high performance composite race

wings, realized you could 3D printing hardware to automate the composite layup

process

Voxel8’s 3D Electronics Printer

• World’s first 3D electronics printer ($9,000) able to print body and circuitry of an object;

Conductive ink dries in only 5 minutes

• A Harvard spin-off founded by professor Jennifer Lewis, designed a new ink that

replaces carbon with highly conductive silver particles and is reportedly five thousand

times more conductive, making it ideal for carrying higher currents, such as those

required by small electric motors and other actuators.

• Teamed with Autodesk for workflow (attaching processors, batteries, etc.)

Old World Lab’s (OWL) Nano-scale Photo Fabrication Device

• Unmatched precision and accuracy of a nano-scale photo fabrication device producing 250x the

resolution of traditional 3D printers

• Specs MC-1: Resolution: 1 micron; Precision: 100nm mechanical capability, Accuracy: +/- 500nm;

Spec MC-2: Resolutions: 100nm; Accuracy +/- 50 nm

• Customers include: NASA and other research institutions; Targeted toward medical, scientific,

academic and research communities

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Advanced Materials Graphene Frontiers Six Sensor Biosensor Platform

• In a few years, most advanced chemical and biosensors will be made of graphene

• Today, Six Sensor enables distinct performance advantages with graphene-based

medical diagnostics that produces lab quality results in the hospital, doctor’s office

or in the field in seconds, not hours

• Results fast, fewer false positives; need a single drop of blood and very low cost

• Very small Field Effect Transistors (FET) are especially promising for identifying

diseases or sniffing out chemical or biologics

• Has perfected a proprietary manufacturing process that supports scalable, low-cost

production at atmospheric pressure; Ready for OEMs/licensing

• Numerous Awards and Affiliations including University of Pennsylvania;

10% CAGR biosensors market to 2020

On Graphene by Graphene Frontiers

Vorbeck’s Graphene Nanotechnology

• Vorbeck offers remarkably cost-efficient, fully washable printed electronic circuits that can

withstand high heat and forces of industrial washers and dryers

• On display: Flexible heaters and biosensors can measure heart rate or impact rate

• Current application: wearable electronics, energy storage, RFID antennas, technology interfaces,

and packaging

• Also, Next-gen Li-S batteries for weight sensitive applications (with Pacific Northwest National

Laboratory and Princeton University)

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iFit Life Integrated, Connected Fitness Tracking

• Connectivity with the Internet of Things (IoT), iFit is rolling out its new line called iFitLife.

• Connect your sleep, eating, and fitness sensors – the integrated system will make

recommendations/program changes automatically. Example: Bad night sleep, sensors will

inform your treadmill workout program to go easy on you.

• By ICON Health and Fitness company: NordicTrack, FreeMotion Fitness, ProForm, iFit, Weslo, Gold’s

Gym

Fitness/Health Monitoring/Wearables

Jins Meme Fitness Glasses / Fatigue and Stress • Jins , a popular eyewear designer, has developed a smart pair of spectacles that has numerous

sensors - more accurate fitness tracker that isn’t affected by arm movements!

• Using accelerometers and velocity sensors (MEMS, six-axis motion sensors), it can determine your

posture and step count (like any fitness tracker), but it also has Electro-oculography sensors (EOGs)

fitted to the nose pads that can help track eye movement and blinking, which allows it to do a lot

of amazing things, including monitoring how fatigued or stressed you are… even early onset of

eye disease!

• Academic packs are available in April. Flagship store coming into San Francisco this summer

Skulpt Aim

• World’s first device to measure Muscle Quality (MQ), available for $199

• Uses Electrical Impedance Myography to measure body fat percentage and muscle quality —

information that’s far more insightful than your body weight, waistline, or the number of

calories you burned on a given day

• From the labs of Harvard, MIT and Beth Israel Hospital; Clinically proven, NASA tested

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Headsets – BCI’s

Emotiv IEEE Raceway – Using Brainwaves to Race Cars • IEEE set up a raceway for CES attendees to try their minds to compete

• Headsets were developed by Emotiv, an Australian electronics company that develops brain-

computer interfaces (Starting at $499)

• Wearing the headset, players could practice alternating between a “neural” state, which

involves not thinking about anything, and a “push” state in which the person actively thinks

about moving the car forward

• When they were ready to begin, players focused their attention on the racetrack, waited for the

countdown, and the moved the cars down the track as quickly as possible

MUSE Brain Sensing Headband

• Brain fitness (3 minutes a day) focus attention exercises that improves how you respond to stress,

gives you lasting feeling of self-control and improves your emotional state

• Uses EEG brainwaves, with Bio-feedback; Open platform with SDK

• A study showed that 20 minutes of focused attention training for 3 days in a row has been

shown to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and reduce heart rate.

• Research on longer sessions has documented other benefits, like increased grey matter density,

reduced thinning of the prefrontal cortex, decreasing amygdala activity (associated with stress

response), and increased resilience – basically, an overall beneficial change of the brain’s

structure and function.

Reach Bionics Headset – Wearable Controller Technology

• Next generation headset that measures EMG signals generated by muscles around the ears and wirelessly transmits the signals to devices as commands

• Cranial nerves that contract muscles can control computers, motorized vehicles, etc.

• Can be used by those affected by neuromuscular injuries up to the highest spinal cord injury

(Brain Computer Interfaces)

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Immersive Gaming (VR)

Virtuix Omni – Move Freely & Naturally • The Omni is a gaming peripheral showcased by VMI last year, but it is now in its final form,

offering an omni directional tread-pad to be utilized when wearing a VR headset

• With a pre-order cost of $500 it is surely one of the most expensive VR add ons you can get, but

could also be one of the most liberating, allowing near free range of motion in games. Price

goes up to $700 after February 1st.

Razer Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) for Gaming • Razer, a key player in the gaming peripheral market, announced a project aimed at building

an ecosystem for VR development that would support all sorts of VR hardware in order to

enable VR to succeed in the marketplace More at …

• Compatibility with the Unreal 4 and Unity 3D game engines, in additional to having

hardware plugins for peripherals like Nod, Hydra and Leap Motion

• 5.5-inch full HD display showing 1920 x 1080p at 60 frames per second

• Unit stores some hardware in a “belt box” to lighten the headset load

• Razer OSVR Hacker Dev Kit is $199

Oculus Rift – Crescent Bay New Positional Audio • Crescent Bay, the latest internal Oculus Rift prototype, is most likely the last or near last

(gesture) stepping stone before the consumer Rift

• This newest developer unit includes an internal camera, new lenses with improved

resolution, and a hold down headset for 3D positional sound

• The December 2014 acquisition of hands gesture tracking provider NimbleVR is now likely to

be seen in Oculus’ next iteration - FACEBOOK, IT’S TIME TO LAUNCH OCULUS!!!

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Epson Moverio BT-200 • Leader in Enterprise / Industrial applications with significant partnerships for Augmented Reality

solution development (Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Transportation, and others)

• Projects a 960x540 resolution picture over each eye to effectively create a 1080i HD screen, includes

the ability for voice commands and gesture controls

• Take real time accurate measurements

• AR research and technology leader, Metaio, v.6 SDK is optimized for the BT-200 Source Dec 2014

• Demos at the Epson booth included Scope AR, APX Labs, Augmenta and Ngrain

• APX Labs – platform software (U.S.-VA)

• Scope AR – for industrial training development

• Micros SD Card for extended Storage, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, Android 4.0 OS, Motion

sensors, Battery life: Up to 6 hour

• BT-200 Developer version ($699.99): Smart glasses, 8 GB, Bluetooth, WiFi, 3.1 oz

• BT-200 user ($587.27): Smart glasses, control unit

• Other Featured developer – see CES Drone section: DJI Phantom 2 Vision+: First Person

Experience - Unmanned Systems

Augmented Reality (AR)

Microsoft HoloLens (Announced at Microsoft Event 1/21/2015)

Release date: Later this year, when Windows 10 is available • For the consumer: “Augmented reality to blend digital world with real world”

• Wireless: No cords, no phones, no wires, no tethers

• Transparent lens; lightweight, built-in spatial sound, enabled by Windows 10

• Not known: Battery life, cost, specifications

How will AR vs. VR play out?

AND then there’s Magic Leap ($542m second round funding) • Direct investments: Google (Corp.). Qualcomm & A-List VCs: Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins

• It’s not mobile computing, nor Oculus-style VR, or even AR, it’s a hardware, software, firmware, and

development platform… that replicates the visual perception system of the human brain as a go-

anywhere, mobile computing platform; Stay tuned…

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LG Curved Ultrawide Monitors (Gamers and Professionals)

• World's first curved 34-inch diagonal UltraWide (21:9) monitor(Model 34UC97) with Quad-HD

resolution (3440x1440 pixels)

• Compatible with AMD FreeSync technology - an innovative monitor technology which eliminates

the tearing and stuttering that has plagued PC gaming for 30 years

• 178-degree viewing angle for the monitor's IPS display recreates colors across over 99% of the sRGB

color space, and there is no color distortion at any angle

• ThunderboltTM ports to connect a Mac or PR and Pegasus2 storage directly to transmit data more

than four time faster than a USB 3.0

• MAXXAUDIO technology provides cinema surround-like sound

• Stackable – for even larger, wider viewing

Displays / Video Walls

Leyard Bezel-free Multi-Panel 4K Displays / Video Walls

• In cooperation with Panasonic, this China-based company offers bezel-free, stackable 4K panels.

• The LED displays are seamless ensuring the highest quality uninterrupted viewing

• LeyardUSA.com (out of Chicago) has displays installed at the Texas Motor Speedway

1. Refresh rate is as high as over 3000Hz, ensuring stable clear pictures

2. Double system backup guarantees secure and reliable program recording

without any breaks

3. Product is light and thin, easy to install, disassemble, repair and transport

4. Visual angle can be up to 160° to ensure great visual experience

5. No limit to stacking

Very pricy – 1.2 micron small pixel pitch, 4 panels is $90,000

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Intel’s RealSense Technology – Obstacle Maneuvering • Depth-capturing camera technology that can transfer the features of high-end light-field

photography to everyday mobile devices

• Next-gen camera applications like augmented reality games, 3D video, real-time

meetings/collaboration, even obstacle maneuvering/avoidance

• Utilizes 6 RealSense cameras for 360 degree views, use Intel onboard computer to

extract most relevant information to autopilot, then calculates positioning and obstacle

avoidance commands

Digital Video Enabling More…

Kodak’s PIXPRO SP360 Action Camera • Kodak is back! This action camera captures 360 degrees of 1080p HD video without the need for

multiple cameras -- using single camera for 360 degree view.

• Fish-eye lense - sphere pictures show live video of front as well as yourself

• Wi-Fi connectivity with realtime viewing and realtime control wirelessly with Android devices; Micro SD cards; HDMI output

• All kinds of mounts - selfie pole, bicycle mount, wrist, underwater mount/housing

• Costs $349 at Radio Shack or Best Buy

• Licensing of technology available for product development – potential for Drone obstacle avoidance and real-time surveillance

DJI Phantom 2 Vision: Drone Control & Realtime Viewing • Considered the best quadcopter drone for sale right now ($950), is also offering First Person

Viewing (FPV) - see what the drone sees while maintaining line of sight control via Epson Moverio

BT-200 Smart Glass (Augmented Reality)

• “The Android OS works exactly as it does on a phone and the picture quality is excellent, even when streaming

video content.”

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Mobile Processors … Enabling

NVIDIA Tegra X1

• First mobile super chip GPU to achieve a teraflop of computing power

• Tegra X1 utilizes Nvidia’s most advanced PC architecture for graphics processing units, called

Maxwell, with 256 GPU cores, on top of a 64-bit CPU, that gives unbeatable 4K video capabilities,

and more power-efficiency performance than the world’s fastest supercomputer of 15 years ago.

• Tegra X1 is the core of new NVIDIA Drive car platforms (see below)

• CEO predicts technology will make cameras rather than sensors such as radar, preferred

methods of detection

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2014

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NVIDIA'S DRIVE PX Deep-Learning* Computer Vision • Nvidia team is jumping into the world of neural networking and deep learning at the speed

of Tegra X1

• The NVIDIA DRIVE PX, a new platform for developing auto-pilot capabilities using its latest

Tegra X1 enables cars to interpret and react to the world around them in real time

• Processes information from up to 12 high-resolution cameras, up to 1.3 gigapixels per

second, and comes with software designed to assist with safety or autonomous driving

systems.

What’s next? AUTONOMY * Deep-learning software learns, in a very real sense, to

recognize patterns in digital representations of sounds, images,

and other data.

2014 K1 Processor 192-Core

2015 X1 Processor 256-Core

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March 2014 Panasonic/SAP Real-Time Sports Analytics System • Panasonic & SAP have partnered (9/2014) for Tracking and Statistical Analytics; Multi-camera

Solution (Shooting 64:9 Ultra Wide Image) – for Soccer, then Ice Hockey

• Multi-Panasonic Ultra Wide angel HD cameras, with real-time stitching to create panoramic

video

• Cameras track individual players – high resolution accurate recognition through

cameras; no sensors required on the athletes

• Realtime human shape analysis with high recognition accuracy

• SAP provides real-time game analysis and feedback - statistics, like total distance run, ball

possession time, balls won, pass completion, and other similar numbers.

• Data management optimized for SAP HANA

What’s next… VMI says – Augmented Coach, with details about

human performance, concussions, fatigue and team dynamics

More Realtime Analytics

Sensaura Tech’s Emotion Recognition • Machine-learning enabled software converts biometric signals (heart rate and skin

conductivity) into 9 different emotions

• With Sensaura’s API, integrate emotions into current and new smart applications

This is not about tracking – it’s about helping people improve or change

their emotional state and behavior

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Mercedes-Benz Vision Self-Driving Car

• The F015 future-facing concept car for 2030

– Only on display the first day at CES before being swept off to the Detroit Car show

• Touch panels and gesture controls (Leap Motion), chairs that swivel for conversation, and yes, a

steering wheel for those who will forever love to drive!

• Utilizes 5 radars and 8 cameras for situational awareness

• S Series the launch pad – today contains 50% assisted driving features of this “future”

technology

Automotives- Autonomy

Hyundai Semi-Autonomous Maneuvering Features

• Augmented reality Head Up Display (HUD)

• Close to production ready:

• Autonomous Emergency Stop System - Maneuvers car to the shoulder lane and does an emergency stop if vehicle detects the driver is disabled (via heart rate monitoring)

• Narrow Passage Assistant System

• Intersection movement assist due to high collision probability

• Remote automatic parking

• Convoys

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Energy Charging and More

StoreDot’s Lighting-fast Charging • Israeli startup StoreDot, which is developing quantum dot-utilizing fast-charging smartphone

technologies, pitches its bio-organic nano-crystal technology as an enable for fast charging

batteries and also a cheaper and non-toxic alternative to cadmium in screens

• Fully dead Samsung smartphone went from dead to fully charged in 26 seconds

• Expects fully commercialization ready by mid 2016 and ready for market in 2017

Energous’ WattUp WiFi Hotspot • Wire-free energy router that can charge multiple devices up to 15 feet (less than 10 watts)

• Works like WiFi - combination of Bluetooth and RF to provide wireless power (transmitters)

• Patent pending; provides usable power at a distance, allowing users to roam while charging. Will license WattUp to various markets

Warfighter Electronics Charging

WiTricity's Safe Wireless Power • WiTricity demonstrated its magnetic resonance coils technology for room-

scale wireless charging – for mobile electronics, stationary devices and

Desktop PC peripherals

• A source repeater connected to a power source can be integrated into

carpeting and floor tiles and then transfer power to a capture repeater

underneath a desk, countertop or other surface (including brick).

• Placing your electronic device on the desk surface will wirelessly charge the

device. Intel and Toyota have partnered with WiTricity

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Security/Surveillance

Ekin Labs Hi WiFi Security • Cracked the code on using WiFi networks to detect motion – i.e. intruders

• First smart home security solution that leverages consumers’ existing WiFi network and WiFi-enabled

devices to deliver a cost-effective, “smart” home security solution

• Requires nothing more than a free app download in order for you to immediately install a home

security system that uses the WiFi network to detect intruders

• Learns over time to recognize false positives and can discern between movements of family

members or pets verses an intruder.

Netatmo Welcome • The home camera with facial recognition technology will send the names of the people it

recognizes to your smartphone as they enter your home and notifies you when it sees an unknown

face

• Full HD at 30fps, 130⁰ field of view, and night vision capability

• “Bank level” encryption of streaming footage

Eyelock's Myris -- No more passwords! • First and only Iris authenticator to meet the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) 1.0 standard.

• Uses iris rather than retina to identify user. The chance of a false ID is one in 1.5 million

• Create super complex passwords that you won't have to remember -- using a USB-powered add-on

to authenticate your identity instead -- Embedded into pc’s that are just now shipping

• The device uses video rather than still pictures to scan the iris, operating at 20fps.

EyeLock researchers and scientists are working in labs and in the field to create technology to improve every facet of identity based

product and technology, from access control, border solutions and transportation to advanced banking and payments

applications.

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Navigation / Location

TRX Systems 3D Indoor Location Mapping • NEON sensor fusion and mapping software uses information from low cost sensors to deliver

location and context in indoor, underground, and other environments without reliable

GPS (utilizes mobile phones’ internal sensors - see Pathsense below)

• Three buildings are mapped dynamically as users walk through the building with a device

hosting TRX NEON FeatureSLAM software

• FeatureSLAM enables accurate indoor location by creating crowdsourced navigation maps

including structural (floors, stairwells, elevators, hallways), magnetic, and radio frequency features

Pathsense – Precise locations without GPS • Provides precise location without GPS and with 90% less battery drain than GPS

• Pathsense is now offering SDKs for mobile app developers

• PathSense utilizes smartphones’ internal sensors — MEMS gyroscopes, accelerometers,

magnetometers, and others — as well as a predictive routing algorithm to determine the location

and then track it; Pings GPS just once when the app launches for a starting point, it is designed to

maintain location awareness with minimal battery drain.

• And in many cases, outdo even GPS for accuracy in urban settings

• Traditional location identification:

• GPS is generally the most accurate, but has the biggest battery tax and is unreliable in urban

downtown areas with “canyons” of skyscrapers

• Cell tower triangulations using a combination of signals or using WiFi limit your location radius

to a mile and 200 yards, respectively; Both often don’t work, especially on the go

So, why were people wearing

Pathsense shirts standing in

the Garmin Booth at CES?

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Smart Home

Ecovent Smart Vents • Boston-based startup made up of a team of ex-missile engineers provides room-by-room

temperature control in the palm of your hands

• Eliminate hot and cold spots in your home – no smart thermostat can do that

• Smart motorized vent with sensors adjusts to changes and learns homeowner behavior

Sengled Boost LED Lighting and provides WiFi hotspot

• First WiFi extending LED bulb – creates WiFi hotspots

• With each bulb you connect, the range of your WiFi is increased. More bulbs means more places to

enjoy your content without worrying about slower speeds. And don’t forget, they’re great at

illumination too

CURB – Home Energy $ Use $ (From DEMO Winner 2014)

• CES’s Smart Home this year could not match this innovation we saw at DEMO 2014 in November.

Curb was a Wow! And won the Demo God Award

• Curb lets you track down every energy consuming device/appliance in your home

• How? Through a central hub that already exists in your home - the circuit breaker box that

links all devices in your home in one location

• Curb is able to determine the exact percentage and cost of every single device

draining power in your home in real time

• Curb also alerts you when your devices are about to fail… so they can be repaired before it gets

really costly

• First order… Jan 2015 – cost: ~sub $300 one time…

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Fly Zano Nano Swarming Drone by Torquing Group, UK • With years working with miniature drones in the Defense sector, Torquing is bringing their

palm size swarming drones ($270 each, Jul 2015) to the consumer

• WiFi, 5MP HD video camera, LEDs for night time infrared photography, obstacle avoidance sonar,

GPS, barometric sensor (altitude), inertial navigation, and microcontroller with data fusion algorithms (available before Thanksgiving 2015, $275)

• Battery life of up to 15 minutes of flight time and a top speed of 25mph

• Top Kickstarter (1/8/2015) raised $3.5 million (most successful drone on Kickstarter)

• From one mobile device, you can control 10-20 drones (commercial), and 100’s of drones

(military & industrial (KinetiQ))

Drones/Robotics (1 of 2)

Squadrone System’s Hexo+ Awesome Simplicity of Operation

• Intelligent drone that follows and films you autonomously – aerial filming for everyone

• VMI’s choice of best user interface – simplicity - it is a camera first and a drone second.

You don’t steer it in the traditional sense. Instead, you use a simple app on your smartphone to tell

the camera what kind of shot you are trying to take.

• Cost: $1,149 package includes : • HEXO+ drone, • 3D gimbal with GoPro Mount • HEXO+ App "The

Director's Toolkit" Worldwide shipping included (GoPro not included)

• Kickstarter (7/15/2014) raised $1.3 million

• Winner of Intel’s 2014, “Make it Wearable Challenge” using the Edison technology, a computer

chip and hardware platform for wearables and the IoT. Awarded $500,000 to turn it into a product;

<0.1 ob, captures full HD images or video, syncs with a smartphone.

• Worn as a slap bracelet; At your cue, Nixie unfolds and takes flight; composes the perfect shot

from an awesome perspective, capturing the moment without interrupting the moment.

Nixie’s Flyable & Wearable Camera

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Top Flight Technologies Propulsion

• A team of FAA, MIT, Georgia Tech, Aerospace and Software leaders removed two universal challenges

for vertical liftoff multi-rotor UAVs – endurance and payload

• At Demo (November 2014) they demonstrated world record of 2.5+ hours, ~100 miles in range,

carrying 20 lb payload on 1 gallon of gasoline

• Airborg™ H6 1500 with Top Flight Hybrid Propulsion™ for enhanced duration and extended payload

applications has 8 times the capacity of a LIPo Battery used in 95% of all UAVs today

• Tunes and calibrates the propulsion system fuel system which includes a 5000W rated (6000W peak)

hybrid engine, 3 gallon tank and 16,000 mAh LiPo battery.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Cargo Drone: flies, drives, delivers

• Qualcomm Research demo’d their Snapdragon-APM powered smart drone

• Performs vision-based obstacle detection in 3D space

• Qualcomm and Linux Foundation (Linux has launched a new collaborative project

called Dronecode, which aims to bring together open source projects and commercial vendors for

the development of new open source flight control software for all kinds of civilian UAVs)

Drones/Robotics (2 of 2)

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FLIR One Infrared – Redesign

• FLIR ONE is a redesign of the previously launch FLIR ONE but now comes with an updated

Lepton sensor that’s four times as sensitive as the Lepton in the original FLIR One, less expensive

and is sleeker by design.

• The new FLIR ONE auto-calibrates itself without the need to pull down a shutter and has also

consolidated the functionality of most of its FLIR ONE apps, rolling photos, videos, panoramic

images, and all the other functionality into a single app.

• Priced at around $390

Mobile Imaging

InView’s SWIR Compressive Sensing

• Low-cost, multi-color SWIR camera developed through research in the emerging field of

computational imaging with Rice University, and is protected by 23 patents

• InView is moving this exciting new technology into the commercial world by developing a line of

SWIR cameras that have significantly reduced costs - with low cost components and signal

processing algorithms; based upon ground breaking Compressive Sensing imaging techniques.

What’s Next… SWIR, MWIR… then MRI, HSI on your mobile device!

• Applications – Material, Food, Plant Inspections; Medical Applications; Read more

Seek Thermal Camera with Optical Zoom • Seek has developed a camera add-on for Android and iOS that can turn your device into a thermal

imaging device for an affordable price of $199

• Breakthrough – a new chip designed in partnership with heat seeker-giant defense contractor

Raytheon and Freescale Semiconductor

• But, the one feature lacking in IR cameras was the ability to focus nearer or farther – So…

Seek Thermal just introduced (1/20/2015) their new Seek XR with an optical zoom feature

letting you spot targets up to 2,000 feet away – for just $299

•

Diamond in the Rough

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Update on TriCorder X-Prize – Universal, mobile medical device!

Watch for What’s Next at CES 2016:

• An immersive, holographic world – not just for gaming, but for our daily lives: education, tourism, medicine, manufacturing, work, etc.

• More on the graphene front: Flexible displays, fast- distant recharging

• Autonomous systems: Cars, Drones, Robots

• And, brain-to-brain controlled you!

The Future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed

-William Gibson, Science Fiction Writer

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