Intel Booth Demos
CES opened its doors today and we were invited to Intel's booth to check out the latest demos displayed at their booth. At least we got our hands on some of the announcements they made the previous day and managed to better experience the new WiDi and gaming with the new Sandy Bridge's integrated graphics processor. Of course, there were a couple of surprises at their booth too.
Intel's booth - colorful as ever.
Even on a 2nd generation Core i5 processor, 3D gaming on the laptop is pretty decent.
Gaming online on the laptop with 4G/WiMAX connection. Seen here a Sandy Bridge laptop running Need For Speed World online game.
Demonstration of the Cisco Umi video conferencing device which lets you make video calls at full 1080p resolution. Seen here, a magician from Los Angeles performing live tricks to CES visitors in Las Vegas.
The Cisco Umi device is based on the Intel CE3100 media processor.
Future smart TVs with embedded Intel media processors would be able to recognize gestures. With this TV, you don't need a remote control.
Local OEM was there to launch their new Axioo notebook based on the 2nd generation Intel Core processor (Sandy Bridge). It's the first for a local OEM to be able to launch a locally designed product to the market - making them available the same time as other branded notebooks. The new NEON HNM will be available in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Seen here is Mr David Kartono, Vice President Product Development & International Sales of Axioo International (left) and Mr Navin Shenoy, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group and General Manager, Asia Pacific Region of Intel (right).
Intel-based Tablets and Netbooks
Intel netbooks do not only run Windows but they are versatile enough to run all sorts of operating systems. We managed to have a go at Google's Chromium OS.
Besides Google's Chromium OS, Intel also demonstrated netbooks running Jolicloud.
The big reveal was Razer's petite Swichblade gaming console that's based on Intel's latest Oak Trail processor. This palm-sized gaming device comes with an adaptive keyboard that remaps its keys based on the kind of game that's being played.
As seen here, the keys were immediately remapped for World of Goo.
It plays more complex games like World of Warcraft too. Seen here, a hunter's major talents remapped onto the keyboard but the question is, are there enough keys and display area to actually play WoW?
A Gemtek entertainment tablet based on the Intel Oak Trail.
Wireless Display
Intel demonstrated Wireless Display 2.0 to us and showed us how easy it is to configure and use WiDi. The software comes with any new Sandy Bridge laptops and the interface is very similar to how you would use a wired display.
In order to complete the WiDi ecosystem, you'll need to purchase these wireless display adapters (for about US$100) and connect them to your display (either a TV or a projector). Equipment manufacturers such as Buffalo, D-Link and Netgear will have solutions ready for the market in the first quarter of 2011.
Object Recognition
Intel further refined their object recognition technical demo using a more powerful Sandy Bridge desktop processor. A camera overhead recognizes objects and interacts with them by projecting images on the objects via an overhead projector.
Task manager shows how each thread is utilized in the system. According to Intel, the new Sandy Bridge processor has enough horsepower and processing threads to make object and gesture recognition a reality.
And we have a video of Intel's technology demonstration of real-time object and gesture recognition.
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