Gadgets expectation by Claudia Sonea

Technology advances every year and offers consumers a wide range of gadget from tiny music players that dance as they play tunes to smarter toothbrushes and curvy computer screens. At the annual agenda-setting Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week technology industry leaders confessed that consumers will be gratified form visions of what might be because the a decade-old digital transition through which gadgets makers are going. If in the pass the separation between computers, phones, television and automobiles, now a merge is desired and in consequence a lot of moves have been made in that direction. At the show Comcast Corp Chief Executive Brian Roberts said on the sidelines of CES said that they were far from presenting their priorities and that everything changes according to consumers' interest. His company announced on Tuesday that a super-fast broadband service capable of downloading high-definition movies would be ready this year. According to Bill Watkins, the outspoken chief executive of Seagate Technology, head of the world's largest maker of computer disk drives, used in a bewildering array of products from TiVo video recorders to iPods to home surveillance systems, at the show nothing that was presented impressed: the way consumers shift their audio and video from TVs to pocket devices to cars, huge or ultra-thin TVs presented by Pioneer, Sharp, Sony and Samsung. The Consumer Electronics Show represented in the past decades the agenda-setting event for the U.S. industry, providing retailers, pundits a glimpse of what trends may be in store for the following Christmas holiday season. However, this year the marketers were set on creating gadgets that would be available faster than taken more time on creating something amazing. Seagate revealed a Digital Audio Video Experience, or D.A.V.E., a Bluetooth and WiFi wireless-enabled disk drive that fits in the palm of the hands of entertainment users contending with limited storage on handheld devices, while Dell announced later this year a curved video display that surrounds a personal computer user with a screen that is equivalent in size to two 24-inch displays laid end-to-end. Eton Corp, a Palo Alto, California-based company backed by Germany's Grundig AG introduced the FR 1000, a handcrank-powered device that boasts a two-way radio to let users talk with other FR1000 users on the same band in a seven-mile radius (includes a flashlight, cell phone charger, emergency siren and flashing beacon). Apple is expected to come with something that might get people raving, so stay connected…

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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