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Exciting announcements and updates from CES
Posted by WEPC.com in Announcements | Jan. 07, 2010 8:00 PM
Happy New Year, WEPC’ers!
We have a couple of exciting announcements and updates from CES for you.
First and foremost ASUS and Intel want to thank you for your participation and inspirational ideas. We loved them so much that we created a highlight video that we want to share with you today.
Second, make sure to come back to WEPC.com this week and next week for video and blog posts from CES. We’re introducing an ASUS Industrial Designer to some of the WEPC contributing authors and will be videotaping some interesting conversations.
Finally, each year ASUS strives to realize the technologies of tomorrow through advanced projects. These advanced projects embrace the thousands of creative ideas from our passionate users and turn these needs into the dreams of tomorrow. A source of feedback is WEPC.com to initiate future dream PC concepts.
This year’s advanced project is Waveface, ASUS' context-based vision of the new digital life. It makes your digital life more flexible, smarter and intuitive seamless control.
ASUS believes that the future of information technology will be rooted strongly in mobility, with the cloud at its heart. By embedding multiple sensors in products, virtually every element in the user’s environment—and, indeed, even the user’s own physiology and emotional state—can be sources of rich data that can be leveraged to deliver the right information and services, at the right time.
Three Waveface concept products are being showed at CES 2010:
- Waveface Casa: A large widescreen display that acts as both entertainment center and internet portal. When not in use, a flexible, decorative cover obscures most of the screen, only exposing small areas that display contextually-relevant information.
- Waveface Light: Equipped with a touch-sensitive screen and backed by a soft, flexible material, the Waveface Light is an interface to the cloud that can be used in a conventional screen-keyboard configuration or as a flat, single-screen tablet.
- Waveface Ultra: A highly-portable device that can be strapped to one’s wrist, the Waveface Ultra provides anywhere, anytime access to information and services. Its display can be snapped flat to enlarge the viewing area.
We look forward to hearing more from you at WEPC.com where the innovation journey continues.
I wish you good luck to make those technologies. The only thing is that this will not be on the market before 4 years or more...
This video is great because this shows how much you listen to your users and not only to what you think would be good. But, this will not be the easiest job to do. You must create them and make sure that they are in the "standards" of the moment (power, memory, ...)
The design is impressive. I hope the functionality can keep up with the eye candy appeal. I'm particularly excited about the Light and the Ultra models. If you will be able to push information to such devices just by proximity then this would be the best computer for the smart home where everything from the electric bill to the contents of your fridge could be available literally at your fingertips! I can see the medical applications as well -- sensors for physical attributes and vital signs could prove vital for telemetric monitoring of illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes. In emergencies your doctor may be able to tell what's wrong with you even before you get to the hospital! I may be getting ahead of myself here but Waveface (I don't care what they say about the name that much) is looking more and more like the wave of the future. Kudos to your engineers.
WOW
my husband was just saying this morning he was sad that technology bypassed the Dick Tracy wristwatches, and here you come with waveface ultra!
I also like the mock up of the car dock. It will work better than the prototype I sent you a picture of, with the HA1000 on the glovebox door, with a gps dongle and an internet dongle up on the dash board. Though that worked extremely well on our Viking road trip to Gimli Manitoba this year. You should see Jim with his Viking clothes and weapons. It is a pretty funny combo with up to the minute tech.
I cant wait tell we all can have this technology in our houses