WEBVTT - What is the coolest stuff from the 2011 edition of CES?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Brainstuff from house stuff Works dot com where

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<v Speaker 1>smart happens. Hi, I'm Marshall Brain with today's question, what

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<v Speaker 1>are some of the coolest and most interesting new technologies

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<v Speaker 1>that were displayed at the two thousand and eleven edition

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<v Speaker 1>of c e S or the Consumer Electronics Show, which

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<v Speaker 1>happened last week in Las Vegas. Here are ten things

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<v Speaker 1>I saw that seemed particularly interesting. At number ten, Video

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<v Speaker 1>has a smart TV with a keyboard on the remote.

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<v Speaker 1>Most TV manufacturers are making smart TVs that can connect

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<v Speaker 1>to things like Twitter and Facebook, but how do you

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<v Speaker 1>type in your messages? On many of these TVs, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a separate keyboard that communicates with the TV via infrared

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<v Speaker 1>or bluetooth. Video has a different answer. They've made the

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<v Speaker 1>remote a slider that reveals a small keyboard like many

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<v Speaker 1>cell phones. Do you type your tweet and then the

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<v Speaker 1>TV sends it instantly? And this remote uses a bluetooth

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<v Speaker 1>connection technique, so you don't have to be pointing the

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<v Speaker 1>remote at the TV as you're typing that. Number nine,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a scale from with things that can tweet your weight.

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<v Speaker 1>Keeping on the Twitter theme, let's say you're on a

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<v Speaker 1>diet and you want the world to know how you're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>You can now buy this scale from with Things. It

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<v Speaker 1>will upload your weight via Wi Fi to Twitter every

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<v Speaker 1>time you weigh yourself. They also have a blood pressure

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<v Speaker 1>device that connects to your iPhone so that you can

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<v Speaker 1>keep all your data stored on your iPhone and uploaded

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<v Speaker 1>if you want. At number eight, Alien War showed a

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<v Speaker 1>three D laptop called the M seventeen X that's got

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<v Speaker 1>a three D display as the laptops display, so you

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<v Speaker 1>can get that full three D effect in a laptop format.

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<v Speaker 1>Now you don't have to be at home with a

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<v Speaker 1>desk top machine attached to your three D h D

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<v Speaker 1>t V. It's all compacted into a laptop form factor.

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<v Speaker 1>In Alien Wars Incarnation, you get all the power of

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<v Speaker 1>a desktop machine, lots of RAM, a powerful CPU, and

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<v Speaker 1>a graphics accelerator all crammed into a laptop case, and

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<v Speaker 1>then the three D display to boot. You can use

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<v Speaker 1>glasses to see what's on that three D display in

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<v Speaker 1>three dimensions. Another really interesting laptop is Acer's Iconia. It

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<v Speaker 1>actually has two screens, so it's a clamshell laptop, but

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<v Speaker 1>instead of a keyboard, there's another screen where the keyboard

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<v Speaker 1>would be The screens are the same size, and this

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<v Speaker 1>gives you a very large screen size. If you open

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<v Speaker 1>the thing up as a flat panel, you can also

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<v Speaker 1>use the second screen to double as a normal keyboard

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<v Speaker 1>and track pad. It just pops it up on that

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<v Speaker 1>lower screen and then in that case it looks a

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<v Speaker 1>lot like a normal laptop or netbook. At number seven,

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<v Speaker 1>so was showing another way to display three D content.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a futuristic head mounted display. People have been showing

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<v Speaker 1>active virtual reality glasses at c E s for ten years,

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<v Speaker 1>and here the idea is that each eye has its

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<v Speaker 1>own mini l c D or o l E D

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<v Speaker 1>display that lets you see a three D world. In

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<v Speaker 1>these systems, there's often a head tracking component as well,

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<v Speaker 1>so you can look around in a three D game

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<v Speaker 1>very naturally, just by moving your head. Sony didn't take

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<v Speaker 1>it that far. They're using the approach instead to simply

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<v Speaker 1>display movies in three D. One of the things that

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<v Speaker 1>gave this device it's buzz is the case design, which

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<v Speaker 1>looks very cool, but it's not clear when the device

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<v Speaker 1>is going to come out. At the other end of

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<v Speaker 1>the three D spectrum, Sony showed two different cameras that

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<v Speaker 1>can produce three D video. These cameras use two lenses

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<v Speaker 1>so they can pick up images for both eyes simultaneously

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<v Speaker 1>and record them. You can watch the three D videos

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<v Speaker 1>on the devices themselves, or you can plug the devices

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<v Speaker 1>into your three D TV to watch them there. At

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<v Speaker 1>number four is the Motorola Zoom Tablets spelled x O M.

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<v Speaker 1>The Zoom got a lot of buzz because it's a

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<v Speaker 1>very nice package that looks like it could compete with

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<v Speaker 1>the iPad if the price is right. It has a

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<v Speaker 1>nice screen, two cameras, and so on. The other thing

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<v Speaker 1>that gave this an aura is the fact that it

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<v Speaker 1>showcased the Honeycomb version of Android for the first time,

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<v Speaker 1>which has been tuned to work on tablets. At number

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<v Speaker 1>three is the Razor Switchblade spelled r A z R.

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<v Speaker 1>It brings PC gaming to a mobile platform. You can

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<v Speaker 1>think of it as kind of a Nintendo DS on

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<v Speaker 1>steroids that can play PC games instead of DS games.

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<v Speaker 1>To work, it has to bring a mouse and keyboard

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<v Speaker 1>interface onto this smallest portable device. The keyboard has l

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<v Speaker 1>c D s on each key so the smallest keyboard

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<v Speaker 1>can adapt to any game and still give a good experience.

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<v Speaker 1>So you can play World of Warcraft or Quake, or

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<v Speaker 1>a wide variety of PC games anywhere you go with

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<v Speaker 1>the Razor device. At number two is the Avatar Connect.

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<v Speaker 1>There are now many three D worlds that you can

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<v Speaker 1>live inside of. Second Life is the best known, but

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<v Speaker 1>World of Warcraft could be considered another one. The problem

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<v Speaker 1>is that to control your avatar's actions you have to

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<v Speaker 1>use key strokes, and that seems kind of a natural.

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<v Speaker 1>The Avatar Connect uses the connect camera system to recognize

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<v Speaker 1>what your real body is doing and then map those

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<v Speaker 1>actions onto your avatar's body. So when you talk, your

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<v Speaker 1>lips move on your face, the connects sees that and

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<v Speaker 1>translates it into your avatar, so the avatar's lips move

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time. When you wave your arm, your

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<v Speaker 1>avatar's arm follows suit. This is one of those things

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<v Speaker 1>where you have to kind of see it in action

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<v Speaker 1>to judge whether you think it's gonna work or not.

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<v Speaker 1>Either way, it's definitely a different way to approach the

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<v Speaker 1>problem of avatars inexpensively. And at number one there's Motorola's

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<v Speaker 1>new Atrix smartphone with an extremely fast processor. So what

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<v Speaker 1>if you make a smartphone so powerful that it's nearly

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<v Speaker 1>as powerful as a laptop computer. It has this fast

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<v Speaker 1>dual core process or plenty of RAM, a graphics accelerator,

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<v Speaker 1>and a flash hard drive. What it lacks to be

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<v Speaker 1>a laptop or a netbook is as screen that's a

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<v Speaker 1>decent size and a full size keyboard. The Motorola Atrix

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<v Speaker 1>recognizes this problem and offers a clamshell keyboard and display

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<v Speaker 1>for the Atrix. So you take the phone and you

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<v Speaker 1>plug it into the back of this clamshell, and the

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<v Speaker 1>Atrix phone provides the gut to the laptop. It drives

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<v Speaker 1>to the display and responds to the keyboard. On the

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<v Speaker 1>clamshell display, you can pull up a full size Firefox

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<v Speaker 1>browser and the phone lets you connect into the Internet

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<v Speaker 1>and use it just like you would any browser. The

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<v Speaker 1>clamshell has its own battery, and it can also charge

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<v Speaker 1>the phone's battery at the same time. Obviously, this just

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<v Speaker 1>scratches the surface of what was displayed at c e

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<v Speaker 1>S in two thousand eleven. C E S is an

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<v Speaker 1>immense show, covering more than a million square feet of

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<v Speaker 1>show floor space. It takes days to just walk through

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<v Speaker 1>and see all this stuff. If you want to see more,

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