CNET's Next Big Thing discusses new tech at CES 2014 (pictures)
The Next Big Thing, with Tim Stevens and Brian Cooley, takes to the stage at CES to discuss new tech.
CNET's Next Big Thing from CES 2014
Julie Larson-Green of Microsoft discusses new tech
Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit Wearables
Vu says that when Misfit was talking about its new company, there was ambient sensing, and then they looked at wearables, a way of having tech with you all the time.
That was the lowest hanging fruit on the tree. In a world with so many sensors, we have ability to gather so much data. It's mostly because of smartphones, Vu says.
From table to tablet
Jim Buczkowski of Ford Research and Innovation
Mike Bell, VP and GM of new devices group at Intel
Passive monitoring - security risk?
Bell: It's about standards
Buczkowski: It's about user choice
How do you get people excited about hardware and services?
Vu: We have only begun to discover what's possible
Audience member: Can wearables monitor our diet?
Audience member: What about bandwidth sharing?
Another audience question: With all the apps out there, bandwidth is getting hard to come by, there's dead spots. Have you thought about bandwidth sharing? How can you guys figure out some kind of topology that helps share available bandwidth? So those that need it get it, and those that don't can give it up?
Bell: I'd argue that current market for data plans assume you don't do that. The pricing models are based on people not using some of the data they pay for. The carriers wouldn't be happy about it, he says.