The 主播大秀 Blue Room allows staff and guests from local communities the opportunity to see and try out the best new technology for audiences to consume, create and interact with content. Colin Warhurst and James Hand from the Blue Room recently attended a major technology trade event and reports back on the new innovations on display.
IFA is Europe's largest consumer technology trade show, and it happens each year in Berlin, Germany. The 主播大秀 Blue Room attended in order to report back on the latest technology trends and innovations. Our job is to see through the hype and the marketing, and try to spot the technologies or themes that may come to matter to the 主播大秀 or its audiences.
This event was well attended by the world's technology press, and many of the headlines were devoted to gigantic 8K television screens and a plethora of new mobile phone announcements.
However, we knew that the real trends of interest were not necessarily the loudest ones, and so we dug deep to uncover more significant changes happening in the areas of Voice-control, and computer-vision - the ability for cameras built into gadgets that are able to recognise individual people.
James and I have detailed our findings and have taken many photographs during our five day trek through the twenty-something halls that make up the IFA trade fair. The sum total of which hopefully provides you with a few key insights into the tech themes that matter in 2019.
We invite you all to have a read of our report at the link below, and if you find it interesting, of course please feel free to share!