Trends from CES

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is just ended; here, I'll compile reviews and assessments from selected journalists and pundits. 

Jason Hiner, in TechRepublic -- 

Hey professionals, watch for these mega-trends at CES 2014

January 3, 2014 

While there may not be major product announcements [at] CES, tech trends will emerge to shape 2014. Here's what to watch in business tech. 

Jason Hiner/TechRepublic

Sure, the Consumer Electronics Show may have consumer in its name but you can find plenty of tech with business implications at CES, especially now that workers are driving so much of tech adoption in today's business culture.

While most of the biggest product announcements are no longer made at CES, the show still gives us an excellent opportunity to take the temperature of emerging technologies and to get a feel for the most important vibes in the tech industry for the year ahead.

I've gotten lots of updates from technology vendors on what they're planning to talk show off at CES 2014. As a result, here are the four biggest trends that will define this year's International CES, for the professionals who pay attention to this stuff.

Let's count them down.

Jason goes on to describe these trends; see the link above for more. (Pointers to information in this blog in [brackets]). 

1. Wearables. [http://www.william-garrity.com/blog/tag/wearable]
2. The Internet of Things. [http://www.william-garrity.com/blog/tag/internetofthings]
3. Contextual computing. ("It's the stuff that Google Now does. It collects uncomfortable amounts of data about you and then uses it in ways that are just useful enough to make you forget about the discomfort. It takes your history and your preferences and your location and triangulates it to present information to you right as you need it, or even before you realize you might need or want it.") 
4. Consumerization of business tech. [http://www.william-garrity.com/blog/tag/consumerization]