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Gadgets: 2008 CES Kicks Off Panasonic's New Works
Posted January 7, 2008 10:37 AM
The 2008 Consumer Electronics Show is under way in Vegas again and all the big R&D toys are coming to the stage. This mornings keynote unveiling, information courtesy of Engadget, kicked off with Panasonic's new 150-inch plasma TV. The monster has a resolution set at 4 x 1080p, essentially 4k by 2k. The presenter, Panasonic's AVC President Toshihiro Sakamoto, calling it the "Life Panel."
Funny how that works into what Panasonic presented at the end of their keynote, the "Life Wall." 
This thing is just that, a wall-sized screen. You can customize it with wall paper and windows and whatever other junk you could want on a digital wall, but this wall is smart too. In the presentation a couple is portrayed in the uses of and life surrounding the wall (which is supposed to bring families together, Panasonic really placed that as a goal of the TV and wall) as they go about customizing it and having streaming video follow them along the wall as they walk so they're always in sight of whatever they're watching. Pretty cool stuff for the people with pockets full of cash and not wanting to experience the real world.
The other gadgets unveiled included a portable
The rest of the showing was about international electronic consumerism and how america is doing so well in the market. Of course this was right before Panasonic began its keynote (Panasonic is a Japanese company?). The other new stuff was just interfacing online material with televisions and such. More to come, CES goes to the 10th. Tags: Consumer, Electronics, Show, guyville, CES, 2008, panasonic, keynote,
