The International Consumer Electronics Show consider place next week in Las Vegas , and as always there will be plenty to trigger our technolust . Teaser press releases from exhibitors augur a new suite of super - thin laptop and mid - range tablets , plus net - connect cars and TVs , as well as the latest developments in charging and connecting devices without wires .
What we crave , of course , is more full - fellate gadget porn , sleek new devices that blow us away . But the full-grown - name makers have already emptied their corporate bag of tricks — Sony ’s Vita handheld gaming consolelaunched last monthin Japan , following the debuts of Amazon ’s Kindle Fire tablet and thelatest iPhone . And those who desire actual porn will have to come back to Vegas the week after CES , when the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo comes to town .
Much of the wakeless technical school action recently has been in software system update , which often do n’t wait for the big trade shows . Facebook and Google rolled out major updates in late weeks , and the late version of Microsoft ’s mobile OS began appearing in the heart of last year .
Attendees walk the floor at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Even without any stand - out debutante , however , CES still sets the stage for the year in electronics .
A major base at the show will be the streamlined , lightweight stratum of laptops known asultrabooks , with dozens of new model proclamation expect . Intel CEO Paul Otellini is likely to show off some of the raw devices in his tonic Tuesday , while Acer and Lenovo will also present young models .
Attendees walk the floor at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas .
Intel is heavily backing the newfangled class of personal computer as a fashion to battle its weakness in tablets , brand the word “ Ultrabook ” and set up a$300 million fundto invest in related technologies . Apple ’s successful Macbook Air has bear witness that consumers will burn even for $ 1000 , and Intel is hoping that tablet - derive features such as foresightful battery life-time , quick go - up times and touch screen will get their popularity .
IHS iSuppli has predicted ultrabook shipments will get to 136.5 million in 2015 , up from less than a million this year , though other analyst have order those figure are too high .
tablet will also be a big presence . Microsoft , which will stool itsfinal appearanceat the show , has appropriate the master keynote for chief operating officer Steve Ballmer ( a custom that date stamp back to the days of Bill Gates ) . The company is expected to give an update on Windows 8 , its first bone for both tablet and PCs . The OS , likely to be released sometime this year , will also be the first to run both weapon system and x86 processor .
Analyst firm Sterne Agee said this week that HTC , Lenovo and Acer are probable to show Windows 8 and Android tab free-base on Nvidia ’s Tegra 3 quad - core group Arm processor .
With manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony gradually moving toward making their TVs “ smarter , ” with net connectivity and downloadable apps , Google pushing its television set solution and the possibility of Apple ’s entry into the market place , a battle is unfolding over how to speed exposure and movies around the base without having to colligate everything with wire .
Chipset maker Wilocity says it will prove short - range data point transfers at speeding of up to 7 Gbps based on the specifications of the The Wireless Gigabit Alliance , or WiGig , which include Microsoft , NEC and Intel .
This compete with standards such as WirelessHD , which already has product on the market from the likes of Sony , LG and Vizio .
Cars are also an increasingly big part of the show . Last year Ford inclose its new Focus Electric at CES , the first time it made such an announcement outside of a major auto show . The society has a tonic this year and has allege it will exhibit its cloud - connected concept railroad car , which syncs schedule and medicine , can beam data directly between vehicles , and monitors the fondness pace of passenger , for the first time in North America .
The head of Mercedez - Benz , Deiter Zetsche , will also fork over a tonic , on “ the interplay between self-propelling innovation and the digital realm , ” and other major name like Audi will be in attendance .
There will be plenty of new gadgetry on exhibit in Las Vegas , with nonstop reporting from the regular army of tech press that descend on the town each January . But the halycon years of novel must - have detail — CES was the launch pad for VCRs , camcorder , Cd , high definition TV , and products like Microsoft ’s Xbox game cabinet — may be over .
IDG News Service ’s Agam Shah in New York contributed to this report .
