LYRA MAG.

West 18th St. NYC Nominees of the CES Innovation Awards and a few Eureka Park start-up products got lots of attention from the full house of media and business types. Aligning the perimeter and center of the spacious ground floor of the Metropolitan Pavilion, the exhibitors -who hailed from several countries...displayed their techy goods---while refining their elevator pitches -before heading out to the main stage of CES 2016 in Las Vegas. Accordingly, some explanations of what the benefits of several IoT (Internet of Things) products on display- eluded us...but maybe-things got lost in translation. Overall, the selections were rather nifty and def. have consumer appeal. SOME Highlights... A huge display case in the center had some of the CES Innovation Awards 2016  nominees. Noted...lack of Apple products (though there are accessories to...)--- but then we figured out-these winners are chosen from submissions...and  -that notably, Apple does not even exhibit at th...

International Consumer Electronics Association neWEB, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google Cultural Institute, Pinshape, Tensio, Whitings, Canon, Dolby Laboratories, Snapchat Washington D.C. Well something finally ( prominently ) landed in front of the Capitol last Wednesday---it just wasn't a piece of agreed upon- by both houses of Congress- legislature ( reining in   patent trolls )--- or like-an Attorney General vote…( c'mon people ). No comment on the message or method here of a Florida guy; what really stood out for us… the self-piloted-easy to navigate-consumer electronic/drone-ish aspect of the story (besides the security stuff)--- timed just prior to the CES On The Hill event-that took place nearby at the Rayburn building…an event that had some of its own nifty highlights from the industry/companies -broadly speaking-in the consumer electronics biz. What truly interested elected officials-beyond a photo op, their massive staffs--- (that seemed to us to be millennials w...