InfoComm

By George Harding

Here’s what I saw at this show.

QBIC is a very small camera with a very wide angle of view. It can be used in many different ways, but the most fascinating uses deal with sports and other motion activities. You can attach it to your body, so that you have a video record of your ski run, your kayak adventure, your race car trek or whatever. It has an adjustable angle of view, from 135 to 185 degrees. You can connect it to your smartphone by using the QBIC app or you can use WiFi to control the QBIC remotely. There are other features, as well. Price is about $260.  See www.elmousa.com.

Corning products. Their Gorilla Glass 3 was introduced. It has the “almost indestructible” feature, but is also anti-microbial, making publicly-touched surfaces more sanitary.  It can be used as a dry erase markerboard in the customary manner, with much better resistance to smudging and scratching than traditional products. Or, it can be a multi-touch panel, each section of which can be manipulated separately. Sizes range up to 84 inches. See corninggorillaglass.com

Kramer Collage and Connect. These products change the dynamics of a meeting room dramatically. Collage allows any device that participants bring to a meeting to be displayed, up to 12 such devices. Connect does the same thing, but with a limit of 4 devices. The devices can be PC or Mac laptops, tablets, iOS or Android smartphones. No hookups are required – all is connected by WiFi. You download software to your laptop of tablet or an app for your smartphone. Nothing else is required. Your screen shows on the main display. Your device can copy the main display, if needed. File sharing is enabled among participants.

Whoosh! This is a screen cleaner, whether phone, tablet or PC/Mac. It cleans them all. It removes dirt, skin oils, smidges and fingerprints. It is eco-friendly and non-toxic. And, it won’t damage your screen. And it’s economically priced with  various sizes available. See whooshscreenshine.com