Connected Traveler Technology Showcase

Our newest event will take place tomorrow in San Francisco.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase, a media-only showcase of the latest travel tech products, apps and services will feature demonstrations by developers of tech-savvy apps, gadgets, and technologies.  Open to international travel reporters and San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s technology, feature, business and broadcast media, The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase and takes place during the week of Pow Wow, the travel industry’s premier international conference in North America.

We realized that there are plenty of technology trade shows that cater to tech media, but none bring the wealth of products and innovative technologies to travel press. The travel press includes a large audience of reporters who don’t go to tech trade shows but who are always in search of information that can improve their readers’ travel experience.

Notebooks, tablets, apps, GPS devices, cameras, mobile storage, and cloud-based solutions, are becoming an integral part of most road warriors’ lives.  In addition to the necessities, there are many products that make traveling safer, more enjoyable and create smarter travelers.

Sponsors include:  GE Digital Cameras, Gogobot, GoSmart, HP,  INRIX Traffic, Ken Kobré Photography-The Lightscoop, Line2, Liquid Image, Mobile Monitor Technologies, Plantronics, Proposal Software, Schedulicity, SpotWorld, SugarSync, TeleNav, Traxxit Technologies, Verizon Wireless, Visual Travel Tours, VIA, and Western Digital.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is a tabletop demo event based on 20+ years of similar successful media events and product showcases,  during Siggraph, and E3 and Lunch at Piero’s during COMDEX and CES.

The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase is open only for working travel and technology writers.  Video will be featured at www.patmeier.com and www.connectedtraveler.com after the show.  For more information, please visit: www.patmeier.com/connectedtravelershow.html or call +1415.389.1700.

Future Connected Traveler events will be scheduled for Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York.

Here it is, more than a month at CES and the Lunch at Piero’s sponsor hits just keep on coming.  Here’s a nice story on ABC News Michael Ferrara, aka the TechnoDad, who highlights a bunch of Lunch at Piero’s sponsors on ABC News including eeColor, Hannspree, AOC, and Escort.

Acquire and download your promotional gift cards to Android and iPhone (and soon Blackberry) phones using JunoWallet.  You can display and store gift cards on your phone and redeem your gift cards easily and securely.  Check into a venue using FourSquare or JunoWallet and leave a free gift for friends while earning points yourself.    A valuable viral tool for vendors, JunoWallet is forming an ecosystem of redeemable cards ranging from online retailers to restaurants and from health providers to travel.. www.junowallet.com

Palo Alto Audio Design demonstrated several audio products: Cubik, a computer speaker system for Mac or PC, uses cutting edge technology that manages sound through digital USB streaming and with a proprietary digital audio amplifier. The result is lossless streaming which provides crystal clear sound and a high dynamic range. The unique, patent-pending design of the Cubik, its low footprint and big sound caught the attention of many of the reporters at Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES 2011. The company also presented Musik, their entry level speaker system. Musik does not require any external power source. Power and sound are delivered through USB resulting in a highly mobile quality speaker system.  For more information visit www.paloaltoaudio.com

Bitbop is a new wireless subscription service delivering on demand mobile TV and movies directly to U.S. consumers’ smart phones. At the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES 2011, the company showed its state-of-the-art platform that puts the flexibility of a home-based media center right in the user’s pocket. Recently acquired by Jesta Digital, Bitbop’s service is accessible from any 3G, 4G or wireless network and features unlimited streaming or downloading of selected content from quality partners. http://www.bitbop.com/networks. For more information and updates on Bitbop, visit Facebook at www.facebook.com/bitbop and Twitter at www.twitter.com/bitbop.

eeColor™ is the world’s first and only 3D, multi-dimensional color video technology with full modeling of color space, device characteristics, viewing environment, visual perception and adaptation. Over the past decade, technology and image rendering has progressed for televisions and video displays. However, digital color standards have not changed since the 1970s and color quality has remained unchanged. At the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES, Entertainment Experience showed how the color gamut of most modern devices extends beyond these current standards and how eeColor takes advantage of that increased color capability to take the home entertainment experience to a whole new level. This patent-pending technology is now available in the HDMI plug-and-play TruVue eeColor Processor.

Lunch at Piero's Press Event During CES 2011

It’s kind of like a wedding.  Months of preparation, lots of great dialogue, pictures, video, people from all over the world, and then, poof! it’s done.  At least for this year.  Lunch at Piero’s 2011 was a fabulous nexus of innovators and reporters, analysts and video crews.  Media joined us from the Las Vegas Convention Center across the street to see apps, mobile devices, gadgets, tablets, software, and some technologies that you will only see in next generation entertainment and PC devices.  Find out all about our sponsors here.  Thank you to everyone who joined us, both sponsors and editorial teams.  Videos and photo album will be posted here.  But for now, I’m taking a couple of days off.  See you here next week.

Absolute Software demonstrated LoJack for Laptops at Lunch at Piero's press event during CES

Featuring sponsors showing products ranging from jaw-dropping 3D maps to delightful stylish monitors, and from the latest in lightning-fast USB 3.0 to apps, tablets and gadgets galore, Lunch at Piero’s Day One was filled with 260 press and TV crews from around the world. A steady flow of reporters asked great questions and we had a tough time finding a moment where sponsors had a lull so we could shoot our own video interviews.
Perhaps this is the harbinger of 2011 to come. The mood certainly was upbeat and there quite a number of forehead-slapping moments. We’ll be posting video with all of our sponsors in the next few days.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MICHELE POWELL, WINNER OF THE PAIR OF CUBIK SPEAKERS FROM PALO ALTO AUDIO DESIGN!

This week we’re doing a giveaway of a free pair of CUBIK speakers courtesy of Palo Alto Audio Design.  CUBIK takes advantage of digital USB streaming and full digital amplification to deliver true hi-fi sound right to your desktop for games, music or movies.  Fabulous base and crisp high frequencies along with flat frequency response.  Use them for your PC or Mac.  Just follow the rules below and tell us what you like to listen to most.

HERE ARE THE RULES:

1. Go to our Facebook page and follow us.

2. Come back to this post and in the comments section give us your Facebook name and answer one question (try to keep it to 25 words or less):  WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO MOST ON YOUR PC OR MAC?

3. We reserve the right to delete inappropriate responses.

4. While Lunch at Piero’s is open only to qualified press and sponsoring innovative companies, this contest is open to anyone over 18 years of age.

5. Winner will be chosen Friday, December 31, 2010.  YOU MUST BE A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA.

• Cloud-based tools for creating and sharing ePublications
• Dazzling photo-realistic 3D maps for geo-location apps
• A smartphone app to track your valuables
• Cool devices that will make your home the hottest spot
• World’s thinnest LED monitor display
• The hottest new mobile productivity apps
• Android tablet devices that expand existing markets
• The Number One mobile wallet
• A tablet that proves size really does matter
• Reliable wireless 1080p HDMI connectivity
• Faster, more mobile data with USB 3.0 technologies
• Multi-platform on-demand mobile TV subscription service
• New longest-range cordless radar detector
• Breakthrough multi-dimensional color video technology
• Software to protect your devices and save your sanity
• LCD TVs with personality and style from every angle
• USB speakers with a small footprint and big sound
• Industry-leading gaming platforms for tomorrow’s PCs
• Voice-activated technology that enhances how people interact with their devices.

…AND MORE

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