Connected Cycle created the Connected Pedal, a modest-looking smart bike pedal that packs a range of GPS and GPRS tricks: as soon as the pedal starts spinning, sensors are activated and start recording the bike's journey. The smart bicycle pedal thus prevents bicycle theft and records the speed, distance, incline and calories of each cycling route. It begins its successful journey at this year's CES 2015.
The International Consumer Electronics Fair CES 2015 has written its own story for this year, but the products presented in Las Vegas have only just begun to write their own. And if we had to look for a leading trend, it would certainly be the Internet of Things, a bunch of everyday objects that have stepped into the virtual world with one foot. Of course smartphones pulled the wagon, but there was much more. Check out what caught our attention.
Although Kodak ended his story ingloriously, his name or the brand lives on. After selling off and closing down the divisions, he avoided bankruptcy and complete decline by selling the license rights to the British Bullitt Group, which, according to a movie script, brings Kodak back to the living when its existence hung in the air until the end. The Bullitt Group will sign two smartphones that will be unveiled at CES 2015 in Las Vegas on January 6.
Lenovo has enriched its range of smartphones with the P90 model, which is the first smartphone with a 64-bit Intel Atom processor and an Intel XMM 7260 LTE-Advanced receiver, which takes care of data transfers (music, games, videos) at really high speeds in LTE mobile networks. Its assets are also a screen with an extremely vivid image and a durable battery.
Since way back in 1992, when Lenovo and IMB launched the first ThinkPads (i.e. ThinkPad 700), Lenovo has produced an incredible 100 million of them to date. On the occasion of the venerable jubilee, this large family of business laptops got a youngster, and the head of the family still remains the now rejuvenated ultrabook ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which maintains the primacy of the lightest 14-inch laptop in the world.
Just like the original, the Lenovo VIBE X2 smartphone is a "tri-color" (multi-layer case), but apart from the appearance, it does not share much with its predecessor. It's not only multi-layered on the outside, as the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system is layered with the VIBE 2.0 user interface. And it will especially burn with the Lenovo VIBE Xtension Selfie Flash, which is a must-have accessory for anyone who likes to take selfies.
Although the iPhone 6 is fresh, the year 2014 makes it "old". That's why some are already revealing the cards for 2015. One of the first to reveal its trump card among smartphones at CES 2015 was LG, namely the G Flex 2, the successor to the year-old G Flex model. This Android too has a curved screen and body, and this too is made of a special but improved plastic that heals itself in seconds if it gets scratched.
The year 2015 has already begun to bring new technological achievements that improve our everyday experience of sound and music during work or during our free time, when we want a little relaxation. Namely, in early January, on the stage of CES 2015 in Las Vegas, Samsung will reveal and present its new product, the speakers 'WAM7500' and 'WAM6500', which allow the sound to reach all 360 degrees in the room.
The biggest hit of this year's CES in the field of wearable technology is the smart watch, which was jointly prepared by LG and Audi. Although it is only a prototype that does not even have a name, it gives us a concrete insight into LG's future in the field of wearable technology. The watch does not have Google's Android Wear operating system, designed for wearable devices, but rather LG's in-house Open webOS platform, which has been reaping success in the field of smart TVs for some time.
The Japanese start-up company Cerevo can boast of the production of XON Snow-1 snowboard bindings, which have built-in sensors to detect and track movement and weight distribution while riding. In addition, the sensors detect the degree of bending of the board, measure the speed and with the LED lights (on the heels and at the toes) simultaneously provide the boarder with information about how he distributes the weight during the twisting.
The Polaroid Zip mobile printer, presented at this year's CES 2015, is a pocket-sized device that allows users to print their photos from any Bluetooth-enabled smartphone or tablet.
The American Seagate will honor the 35th anniversary of the production of its first 5.25-inch drives for personal computers with the release of the Seven external hard drive, which is unmatched among its peers, as it has been made so thin that you can almost see through it. It measures a mere 7 millimeters in thickness. But despite the mannequin line and space for a single disc (this one measures 5 mm), the disc has a capacity of 500 GB.