The car connected and the Internet of Things were attracting … – The Nacional.com

Although the compa-nies in the areas of consumer electronics, computing and telecommunications make important announcements and launches at CES, Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, edition 2015, held this week, most Featured relates to the platforms for the connected home and connected to the car, as well as computing devices Ready-to-wear or wearables and called Internet of Things.

Before the start of CES The company Nvidia announced the first chip SoC (complete system on a chip) for mobile applications capable of a teraflop, a term hitherto used to measure the performance of supercomputers and represents the barrier of one billion high-precision operations per second.

While this component will be on mobile devices, perhaps before the end of the year the first applications of this powerful chip will be deployed to computers to cars. The system shown in Las Vegas uses 12 cameras to perm it go autonomous management capabilities and an automatic parking system.

Monitors curved and 5K. The high-resolution monitors are becoming everyday so HP introduced into Las Vegas a handful of screens: two 4K (UHD or ultra HD) and a 5K. . Is also launching its first curved monitors extra wide, fail to 4K resolution

4K Both models are 23.8 inches and 27 inches, respectively, with 16: 9 and prices 549 and $ 749, suggesting that the HD monitors will drop in price as 4K becomes the standard monitors on the desktop.

HP introduced a 27-inch monitor 5K resolution, which seems to move towards higher resolutions. This model 5K will be released in March and will cost $ 1,299.

Android TV

The TVs are getting thinner, more clearly and curved profile, but the most interesting trend appreciated in Las Vegas has nothing to do with the hardware but a confrontation over the software, as Sony and Sharp have opted for the Android platform as a means of interaction with these devices, but other important players as Samsung, LG and Panasonic adopt other software platforms.

While Samsung proposes an interface based TV Tizen, a system that was originally designed for mobile, LG will use Web OS and Panasonic prefers Firefox . The reaction is fragmented but is a denial that Google, which already dominates in the area of ​​mobile operating systems Android, extend that domain to the hearth room.