Bosch Gets Smartglasses Right With Tiny Eyeball Lasers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/bosch-ar-smartglasses-tiny-eyeball-lasers

If I’m very lucky, I’ll find one or two things that really blow my mind. And it almost always takes a lot of digging, because the coolest stuff is rarely mentioned in keynotes or put on display. It’s hidden away in private rooms because it’s still a prototype that likely won’t be for ready the CES spotlight for another year or two.

Deep inside Bosch’s CES booth, I found something to get excited about.

Bosch agreed to give me a private demo of its next-generation Smartglasses, which promise everything that Google Glass didn’t quite manage to deliver.

A few weeks before CES, Bosch teased the new Smartglasses prototype with this concept video

Lightweight and slim, with a completely transparent display that’s brightly visible to you and invisible to anyone else, the smart glasses in this video seem like something that could be really useful without making you feel like a huge dork. But concept videos are just that

A custom fitting is necessary is because of how the glasses work. Rather than projecting an image onto the lenses of the glasses themselves, the Bosch “Light Drive” uses a tiny microelectromechanical mirror array to direct a trio of lasers (red, green, and blue) across a transparent holographic element embedded in the right lens, which then reflects the light into your right eye and paints an image directly onto your retina. For this to work, the lasers have to pass cleanly through your pupil, which means that the frame and lenses have to be carefully fitted to the geometry of your face (frames with prescription lenses work fine).

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder

World of AI is getting better everyday..
This is NEON, your personal virtual assistant with Artificial Intelligence.. an “artificial human” designed by the #Samsung technology & Advanced Research Labs was shown at the CES 2020 tech show.

Samsung says: Neon will have memories and display emotions.
Neons can converse, sympathise like real human beings. They appear on a screen, listen and give lifelike responses and can speak in any language. Neons will be our friends, collaborators, and companions, continually learning, evolving, and forming memories from their interactions. They can act as teachers, financial advisers, health care providers, actors, spokespeople, TV anchors..

The demo at #CES2020 was running on PC with two 128-core CPU.
The technology platform powering the Neons is called CORE R3.
An additional platform still in development called SPECTRA will complement Core R3 with more artificial intelligence, machine learning, emotions and memory. It’s what gives a Neon its mind, heart and soul.

#CoreR3 #NEON #technology #science #future #cyberpunk #GhostSquadHackers #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/as-autonomy-stalls-lidar-companies-learn-to-adapt/

Micron Technology chose CES 2020 to unveil its DDR5 chip, which is ironic, since the latest iteration of DRAM will initially find the most demand from data center applications before popping up in client devices. In amongst giant wall-mounted LEDs, smartphones, and “impossible pork,” Micron announced it had begun sampling its DDR5 Registered DIMMs based on its industry-leading 1znm process …

Data Centers Drive DDR5 Demand
https://www.eetimes.com/data-centers-drive-ddr5-demand/

Velodyne claims to have broken the US $100 barrier for automotive lidar with its tiny Velabit, which it unveiled at CES earlier this month.

“Claims” is the mot juste because this nice, round dollar amount is an estimate based on the mass-manufacturing maturity of a product that has yet to ship. Such a factoid would hardly be worth mentioning had it come from some of the several-score odd lidar startups that haven’t shipped anything at all. But Velodyne created this industry back during DARPA-funded competitions, and has been the market leader ever since.

Wi-Charge was at the Consumer Electronics Show to demonstrate its AirCord Technology for long-range wireless power transmission.

Wi-Charge’s patented light-based wireless power supply technology provides a remote power solution for smart home wireless devices, supporting 24/7 operation with increased functionality. PowerPuck (R1) — a compact, long-range wireless charger for smart and IoT devices, built with Wi-Charge’s AirCord technology — is the company’s latest solution. The charger plugs into a wall outlet or screws into a lightbulb socket and powers compatible devices wirelessly from distances up to 30 feet.

iPropertyManagement estimates that there will soon be over 26 billion IoT devices currently implemented and predicts a three-fold increase by 2025. Suppliers are trying to improve the performance and functionality of IoT devices, but limited battery life slows these efforts.

Developing a wireless power delivery system requires years of research and study to finalize the best source to use. It is important to initially consider various sources such as magnetic fields, radio-frequency waves, ultrasound, and, of course, light. The parent company has carried out numerous studies and found that light offers the best combination of power, distance, efficiency, and safety

Power is delivered with millimeter precision using safe, focused, and invisible rays of light. The transmitter uses the standard power supply and can cover about 25 m2, while the various receivers include a small photovoltaic cell (essentially a small solar cell) to convert the light received into abundant usable electricity.

The R1 is slightly larger than a Nest thermostat and is easy to install in a variety of ways. For example, an Edison screw adapter makes it compatible with numerous light fixtures, and a socket adapter allows the R1 to plug directly into a standard wall outlet (Figure 3). The receivers can be as small as 0.5 × 0.5 inches and are typically embedded in the charged devices themselves. The PowerPuck was shown at CES 2020 and is slated to begin shipping in 2020.

Wi-Charge solutions power smartphones anywhere in the office. Ceiling-mounted transmitters provide power for all devices safely placed on a table.

Wi-Charge is showing the IR-based Wireless Power Technology for the future of IoT
https://ces.eetimes.com/wi-charge-is-showing-the-ir-based-wireless-power-technology-for-the-future-of-iot/