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1Real-Time Ball
The European passion for football (what we in the United States call soccer) brought about the creation of a wireless location system that can tell exactly where the ball is in real time. This has proven to be a great help in training, and in knowing when a ball is out of bounds or makes a goal in a real game. It can be used in American football, but more important, the technology can be used in real-time materials tracking.
2Tracking
3Wireless Lifting
4Still Cube
5Need for Speed
6Ultrabook
7Windows 8 tablet
PaceBlade was the first out of the chute with a Windows 8 tablet. The combination between this tablet, the PM240 semi-rugged tablet and Windows 8 was a happy one. The Metro interface operated intuitively, it was smooth and responsive, and it made clear why Microsoft is aiming this OS at the tablet market.
8Boot to Gecko
T-Mobile and Mozilla were showing off Boot to Gecko phones. This is an open wireless platform that uses apps written in Javascript. The result is a flexible, low-cost smartphone that makes custom app development easy and quick.