The Integration Conversation

Retro designs, the ubiquity of voice interfaces, tele-medicine -- all that and more gets covered in this report from Friday at CES in Las Vegas. Walt Zerbe is joined by CEDIA's David Meyer, Mike Maniscalco, and Geoff Meads (Presto Web Design).

https://www.ces.tech/

https://www.prestoav.com/

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Walt Zerbe and company report from Eureka Park, where the startups show their wares. Guests include Rich Green (Rich Green Design), Geoff Meads (Presto Web Design), Mike Maniscalco (one of the founders of Ihiji), and CEDIA's David Meyer.

https://www.ces.tech/

https://www.prestoav.com/

For more on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

Lots of impressive stuff here: robotics, brain/machine interfaces, and the best video our panel has even seen. Our third report from CES, hosted by Walt Zerbe, includes thoughts from CEDIA's David Meyer, Peter Aylett (Archimedia), Rich Green (Rich Green Design), Kris Hogg (Samsung), and Mike Maniscalco.

https://www.ces.tech/

https://www.archimedia-me.com/

https://www.samsung.com/us/

For more on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

All this week, Walt Zerbe wil be sending us daily podcasts from CES 2019 in Las Vegas. "Day One" (yesterday was "Day Zero") features reports on what Walt and company saw at the Sahara (smart-home stuff) and the Venetian (what's happened to high-end audio at CES?). Guests include CEDIA's David Meyer, Peter Aylett (Archimedia), and Geoff Meads (Presto Web Design).

https://www.ces.tech/

https://www.archimedia-me.com/

https://www.prestoav.com/

For more on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

All this week, Walt Zerbe wil be sending us daily podcasts from CES 2019 in Las Vegas. Day "Zero" is all about opening keynotes and presentations, as seen by Peter Aylett (Archimedia), Rich Green (Rich Green Design), Geoff Meads (Presto Web Design) and Gordon van Zuiden (cyberManor).

https://www.ces.tech/

https://www.archimedia-me.com/

https://www.prestoav.com/

https://cybermanor.com/

For more on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

What should one do to prepare for — and react to — the darkening economic clouds that may be on the horizon? That's the question we posed to three guests, two integrators who made through the Great Recession (Gordon van Zuiden and Ed Gilmore), and a financial adviser by the name of Peter Dunn (aka "Pete the Planner").

cybermanor.com/

gilmoressoundadvice.com/

petetheplanner.com/

From 5G to Blockchain to the latest in wellness tech and lighting, here's a roundup of the the podcast's most interesting (and most listened-to) moments of 2018.

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Legendary hi-fi label KLH has seen a resurgence of late. David Kelley (who bought the brand) fills us in on the history of Henry Kloss's company, and what they're up to now.

https://www.klhaudio.com/

For more on CEDIA, check out CEDIA.net

Sam Woodward of Lutron (who's also CEDIA's Training Volunteer of the Year for 2018) is busily working on a whitepaper called "Considerations for Quality of Light in the Home." This preview includes info on Correlated Color Temperature (CCT), Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) versus Constant Current Reduction (CCR) for LED dimming, and other issues including glare factors and individual preferences for lighting in the home.

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Peter Aylett (Archimedia) ponders some trends for 2019, including:

• The end of the everything being "smart" – everything will be "artifiically intelligent,"
• Insurance companies will use sensorization to mitigate losses,
• The HDMI Matrix switch dies,
• "Wellness" tech takes off,
• And quite a bit more.

Peter, Walt, and Ed also reflect on 2018: "A year of evolution, not revolution," according to Aylett.

For more info on CEDIA, check out CEDIA.net.