Time for New Toys

This weekend the conference called DEMO@15, which has become the launching pad for many a successful technology gadget, will be held in Scottsdale, AZ. Most of the new technologies are kept top secret leading up to this event, but Red Herring gives a sneak preview.
“Menlo Park, California-based Xfire is working with the next generation of networked multiplayer online games. British company Sonaptic creates 3D surround-sound audio for cell phones, and Palo Alto, California, company Avvenu has a service that enables users to access home-based media content, like music, photos, and video, from a mobile….If you thought liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and plasma display panels (PDPs) were the upcoming display technology, Irish company Ntera makes nanochromatic displays (NCDs), which are low power and flexible. Israeli company VKB makes an optical-based virtual keyboard….Australian company Digital Monkey has a software system, ‘In the Chair,’ which enables a musician to immerse in an audio orchestra setting.”
It all makes a Luddite like me want to curl up in a corner….but, progress marches on. After all, I don’t write this blog with a typewriter.