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<li><strong>[00:00] CES-2015 starts </strong></li>
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<li>] CES 2015 runs from&nbsp;jan&nbsp;06 - jan&nbsp;09,</li>
<li>] 3500 companies, 160k estimated visitors, 6K journalists,</li>
<li>] press opening previews started on Sunday night, Jan 4, show opened to the press today</li>
<li>] TRENDS 2015&nbsp; - expected or ??</li>
<li>] other than <strong>mobile</strong></li>
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<li>] mobile - new nvidia chip - tegra x1 - 256 gpu cores&nbsp;on top of 8 cpu cores, hi powered, low power consumption</li>
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<li>] <strong>wearables</strong> - on everything - even snowboard from company&nbsp;xon, snowboard has embedded sensors, register your run down the slope, then&nbsp;play it back to figure out what you did</li>
<li>] we have wearables for babies, for old people, to track your activity, your&nbsp;food, your sleep, ..&nbsp;-</li>
<li>] <strong>IOT</strong> - a gazillion devices, - trend to home automation</li>
<li>] including many&nbsp;established venders ex nest(google), belkin, last year intro'd wimo module, low cost this year new echo module (tracks water/power usage),</li>
<li>] another company called onelink, companys claims their products can&nbsp;run for 10 years on battery power,&nbsp;al</li>
<li>] <strong>drones</strong> - #1 mfg is DJI, new DJI inspire model, other mfg's as well</li>
<li>] smartthings (samsung) hub, ties different devices together, there sensors for doorways, sensors to tie everything together in the garage</li>
<li>] also products from Lowes, onelink, nest,</li>
<li>] would be nice to buy sensors and not worry about them being incompatible</li>
<li>] Samsung uniquely positioned to dominate in this market</li>
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<li><span><span><span style="background-color: #888888;"><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://naturebox.com/twit" target="_blank">naturebox.com/twit</a> </strong></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #888888;">] subscription snack service, healthy food, all kinds of innovative, delicous snacks, NO artificial flavours, colours, high fructose corn syrup, some are gluten free, FREE box with your initial order,</span>&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[11:15] <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/01/garmin-vivoactive-smartwatch/" target="_blank">garmin announces 2 new fitness smart watches</a>&nbsp;w/Christina Bonnington</strong></li>
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<li>] a ruggedized $499 finix 3, training watch for snowboarding,hiking,climbing,skiing, ....&nbsp;has built in compass and barometer, gps can be used for route planning, leave breadcrumbs of where&nbsp;you've been(hiking,boarding,..),&nbsp;claims 50 hour battery life, has apps</li>
<li>] vivoactive $249 - more traditional smartwatch, can be used for fitness and as&nbsp;more traditional &nbsp;slick design, squareish face, gps enabled, has apps, doesnt have the fine tooth tracking and other high end features of the finix</li>
<li>] notifications - support for both iOS and android, ?? windows,</li>
<li>] finix 3 comes with sapphire model, $600 price features scratch resistant screen</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/05/us-nvidia-autos-idUSKBN0KE0AA20150105" target="_blank">nvidia announced new tegra x1 chip</a>&nbsp;w/Noel Randewich reuters</strong></li>
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<li>] also announced 2 new car computers, powered by the new chips - the&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">drive cx</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">drive px</span></li>
<li>] these auto cpu's bring "terra flop performance" to cars</li>
<li>] cars are one of the big themes at CES this year(again)</li>
<li>] Nvidia envisions cars that are "more intelligent" than our&nbsp;smartphones, laptops</li>
<li>] dashboard technologies, driver assistance technololgy</li>
<li>] one cpu is aimed at interior of car many screens, other is for processing info from many inputs&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;cars with multiple displays(dash,navigation,entertainment,mirrors)</li>
<li>] nvidia legacy is high end graphics chips, as many screens as possible</li>
<li>] cars of tommorow, cars with 12+ cameras, collecting information, processing info,</li>
<li>] when will we see it in cars -</li>
<li>] PRB/CHALLENGE w/autos industry -&nbsp;long car dev cycle, people keep cars longer, product needs to work perfectly for 10+ years</li>
<li>] Nvidia has partnerships with audi, bmw, .. will appear in high end cars first, some of these technologies are slowly working their way into cars today</li>
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<li><strong>[22:00] <a href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/01/introducing-google-cast-for-audio.html" target="_blank">google announces google cast for audio</a></strong></li>
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<li>] works like chromecast for video, but for audio.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] Use it to stream audio services from your iOS, android phone or tablet to internet connected speakers</li>
<li>] supports most popular audio streaming services, except Spotify</li>
<li>] Google is partnering with speaker makers like Denon, more to come</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vuzix-corporation-receives-248-million-investment-from-intel-corporation-300015216.html" target="_blank">intel invests in smartglasses maker vuzix</a></strong></li>
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<li>] intel purchased 30% stake&nbsp;for 24.8M</li>
<li>] specialized smart glasses</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/google-asked-remove-345-million-pirate-links-2014-150105/" target="_blank">google recieves request to takedown 345M pirate links</a></strong></li>
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<li>] UK&nbsp;music industry group BPI was biggest maker of requests</li>
<li>] links are reportedly to</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2015/01/04/parrots-self-watering-pot-is-made-for-plant-killers/" target="_blank">parrot announces self watering/monitoring pot for plants</a></strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;2 new potted plant devices,&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;monitors plants for moisture, ...,</li>
<li>]&nbsp;automatically waters plants from water bottle</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;<a href="http://emiota.com/" target="_blank">french company emiota announces smartbelt</a></strong></li>
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<li>] monitors your expanding/contracting waistline</li>
<li>] motors to auto tighten/loose your belt</li>
<li>] also track things like ...., that other wearables track</li>
<li>] will&nbsp;ship by end of this year</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] ASSORTED - </strong></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>FOLLOWUP -&nbsp;on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES</strong></li>
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<li>] none</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] producer - <a href="/view/person?id=307" target="_blank">Jason Cleanthes</a></li>
<li>] guest host&nbsp;- none</li>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1167" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li>
<li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-january-5-2015" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li>
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