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<p>This author didn’t think much of the show. What’s out there that consumers want?</p>
<p>I want a waterproof fitbit.
& make a waterproof iphone while you are at it. ( & I know I can use one of those bags that you use for white water rafting, I don’t want that. I want something so that when my phone is in my pocket, & I get soaked washing the car or spraying the mites in the trees, it still works)
:o
Do they have waterproof earbuds?
I just started taking water exercise classes that I love, but the music! 
My daughter tells me bad music is a hallmark for water classes.
I don’t think I can stand it.</p>
<p>There’s a new waterproof coating that you can get on smartphones that might become standard equipment one of these days.</p>
<p>Voice commands in cars is coming.</p>
<p>Self-driving and self-parking cars.</p>
<p>I wasn’t really impressed with CES this year and a lot of the big companies weren’t interested in showing up there too.</p>
<p>The biggest winner was probably Intel, at least in terms of stock price appreciation.</p>
<p>I think 3D printers were highlighted at the conference. Won’t they change the world?</p>
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<p>Eventually, I think yes, but it will take time to achieve critical mass. I knew a researcher/inventor who was working on 3-D printers back in the later half of the 1980s, so it’s not like this is a new idea.</p>
<p>The biggest driver to mass adaption would likely be a large library of open-source product templates.</p>
<p>People will want the ultra-definition (UD) TVs, which have 4 times the resolution of high definition (HD) TVs and are sized much larger, about 84 inches, but the price will need to drop to about a tenth of the current prices before many of them will be sold (but this was the case with the early HD TVs as well). </p>
<p>These UD TVs are by Sony, Samsung, and I think LG.</p>
<p>The world would beat down the doors to buy a well made smart phone that does not need to be encased in a secondary skin to be waterproof, and more importantly, shatterproof. I don’t even know how beautifully slim and sexy my Iphone 5 is because the second I got it I walked out of the Apple store, across the mall to another store where I bought an Otterbox Defender. Every Iphone I have ever seen that isn’t similarly swathed in plastic has a cracked screen.</p>
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<p>I don’t know where I can put an 84 inch tv screen with the place I live in now. I might be able to squeeze it in somewhere. </p>
<p>We used to have a 10 foot projector tv and although the resolution wasn’t that great, the resolution was good enough. Sports, movies, and @@@@ were quite good.</p>
<p>I am surprised projector tvs haven’t done better. The resolution has to be getting better with projection tvs.</p>
<p>^^ Some of the projectors in theaters are now digital projection but they’re very expensive. </p>
<p>For the TV to be practical it needs to be able to be seen well even in fairly brightly lit rooms so projection systems aren’t as well suited for use outside of a more light controlled space. It’s also pretty easy to just hang a TV on a wall and be done with it rather than configure an appropriate screen, the projector, focus it properly, control the lighting, etc.</p>
<p>I think I could fit an 84" in the space I currently have a 55" one but they have to come down substantially in price before I’d even consider it but they will eventually come down in price - that’s the beauty of consumer electronics.</p>
<p>Yeah…I want that price lower. I would have to put the 84 incher on a different wall…and then who knows what else has to be changed. :)</p>
<p>I am watching a football game in hd on a 55 incher, I am near sided, and I don’t need my glasses. Tv looks good.</p>
<p>Cell phone accessories are a HUGE money maker for companies…Iphones don’t NEED to have a glass face or back…just saying :D</p>
<p>You need a BIG room to comfortably watch an 84" TV!</p>