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

VIA presented the next step in its Nano processor line which initially attracted such major brand names as Lenovo. The new VIA Nano X2 dual-core processor expands VIA’s reach into the desktop, notebook and further into the embedded market.

VIA also answers the particular challenge of delivering high quality video over separate simultaneous streams to multiple displays.  The VIA eH1 graphics card is particularly suited for embedded developers with multi-display projects requiring 1080p HD video with the kind of longevity that embedded designs require.

The VIA Nano X2 and the VIA eH1 multi-display DX 10.1 graphics card were demonstrated at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES.

For more information see www.via.com.tw

VoiceDJ from Speak With Me, Inc. is an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad* application that allows users to control their mobile music library entirely with their voice. VoiceDJ is built on Speak With Me’s device-based technology platform, which delivers 99 percent accuracy and decreases voice recognition response time from seconds to milliseconds, providing the fastest, most accurate voice-activated app available. VoiceDJ, which was demonstrated to reporters at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES, also recognizes nearly 1 million words from a person’s vocabulary and can easily handle music libraries with hundreds of thousands of entries. And unlike most other voice solutions, VoiceDJ doesn’t need an Internet connection to function so users can enjoy the app anytime, anywhere and spontaneously change songs, artists, albums or genres as the mood strikes. Watch for many more applications with this remarkable voice recognition technology.  www.speakwithme.com

Phone Halo is an App that works with the Cobra PhoneTag and prevents you from losing your valuables. Just on the heels of winning the Popular Mechanics Editors Choice Award during CES 2011, Phone Halo and the Cobra PhoneTag were showcased at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event.
Phone Halo does three things to protect your items
Recover: When the Bluetooth disconnects, Phone Halo records the GPS coordinates to pinpoints the item’s last known location on a Google map and can send the map to your contact list.
Locate: Phone Halo acts as a two-way finder by beeping your belongings at the press of a button.
Protect: Phone Halo wirelessly tethers your phone and item. If the items become separated, both can ring to remind you something is being left behind and the application locks your phone. www.phonehalo.com

Avatron Software, a leading mobile app developer for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, showed two crowd-pleasing apps and introduced its newest app at the Lunch at Piero’s press and innovator event during CES:
These applications enable people to be more mobile and more productive without lugging around heavy laptops and devices.
Air Display turns an iPad into a wireless computer monitor.
Air Sharing, a document manager, lets you mount your iOS device like a wireless flash drive, copy files onto it, and view your documents on the go. The Pro and HD versions also let you connect to remote file servers and print documents.
And now, Print Sharing gives you all of the printing power of Air Sharing, wrapped in a delightfully simple workflow. Easy in, easy out.
Find out more at www.avatron.com

AOC is the world’s largest manufacturer of LCD/LED monitors and HDTVs. With more than 60 years of design and manufacturing experience, AOC has earned a reputation for selling user-friendly, technologically advanced monitors, TVs and multi-functional displays. At Lunch at Piero’s during CES, AOC Marketing Manager Robert Velez showed the company’s newest products including an Android-based tablet with an industry-leading 8″ touch screen and USB port plus conveniently placed buttons for easy operation. AOC also showed the Aire Black LED – the slimmest display panel throughout any monitor in the world.