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So what's next in consumer technology? With all the breakthroughs of 2007 and 2008, what are the latest technologies keeping consumers even more efficient, knowledgeable, entertained and connected in 2009? Well, here's what we're seeing. Future designs must really strive to surprise and delight. Consumers vote with their dollars and their lifestyle choices; how and where we all live, work, travel and play suggest that technology needs to incorporate and enhance these trends and preferences:

• Products must be easy, convenient and yes, fun, to use.
• The more intuitive the design the better, whether in software or hardware.
• Online sources must continue to meet business and recreational needs (shopping, correspondence, banking, education, and social networking).
• Consumers want to share information, music, videos and ideas with familiar faces and sometimes, too, with strangers.
• Professional and personal lives are more inter-connected than ever before.
• Infotainment — the merging of entertainment and information — is now the norm.
• Consumers are more socially and environmentally aware and increasingly concerned about environmental issues, recycling, clean energy and climate change.
• Businesses function globally instead of locally and need to adapt to social, geographic and cultural differences.

Register today for the 2009 International CES to learn, network and investigate the latest technology in more than 30 product categories. It's free if you sign up before November 1.

Source: 5 Technologies to Watch, a CEA publication.


While all consumer technology markets converge at CES, it's still easy to find specific segments that matter to you. If emerging technology is your primary interest, start by exploring these parts of the CES show floor:

• Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase
• NFC Forum TechZone
• Sustainable Technologies TechZone
• USB TechZone
• Sands Expo and Convention Center

Innovators and dealmakers descend on CES to soak up the hottest technologies that will blow minds, break barriers and fly off shelves in the years to come. Meet manufacturers and distributors of:

• Robotics
• Biometrics
• Voice recognition devices
• Disposable technology 
• New audio media
• Nanotechnologies
• Flexible computing devices

Check out the 2009 International CES Exhibitor Directory.

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