Consumer Electronics trends: Less-gadget more-media, AI and VR/AR are growth factors

At the recently concluded second edition of consumer electronics (CE) tech event ICCE-Asia 2017 organized by IEEE held on October 5-7, in Bangalore, the theme was "Intelligent Living through Smart Technology". After attending the event one thing is clear, Technology convergence is spreading into non-electronics areas too. Its no more electronics, it is electronics in every thing. Television is no more your prime media device, even if it serves as main media entertainer, the future TV is not about a typical broadcasted or one-way telecasted content. It's going to be internet connected smart TV streaming personalized content. Though smart phone emerging as prime device, there are lot more gadgets to stream media - it can be any connected device with ability to stream high-quality audio and video with wireless connectivity. It can be your television, your laptop/notebook computer, your wearable glass, your smart phone, your car, or your gaming console. Now the consumer electronics is more about delivering personalized, immersive, high-resolution, natural feel-like content the consumer wants and wherever the consumer wants. Convergence is now a reality and already spread into complete home and car. Added to this new media-streaming consumer-electronics technology, another one is the fast emerging smart home technologies, and any such IoT powered devices. Your car is a sma...