About the speaker:

Douglas Dixon is an independent technology consultant, author, and speaker specializing in digital media. A graduate of Brown University, and previously a product manager and software developer at Intel and Sarnoff in
Princeton, he is the author of four books and has published over 250 feature articles.

Doug is currently editor-in-chief of Mediaware magazine and writes for Digital Photographer and Condé Nast Traveler magazine and the U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton. He has presented over 95 seminars and talks on
digital media over the past eight years. Doug makes his articles and technical references freely available on his Manifest Technology blog and website (www.manifest-tech.com).

About the presentation:

It's a year of severe contrasts in the consumer electronics and computer industries. We love to buy the latest electronic gadgets, and yet must face economic reality.  But there's no stopping progress -- smaller, cheaper,
faster, and with more capacity, more features -- and so companies need to continue to develop new and improved products.

Again this year, Doug Dixon worked the Consumer Electronics Show to scope out the new products, and to report back developing trends, especially for home and personal entertainment.

With personal storage reaching tens of gigabytes on tiny chips, and immediate connectivity through wireless broadband to your handheld, you can have constant access to massive libraries of information and entertainment from your home to your phone, anywhere, any time, and on any devices. Even better, you can create and share your own high-quality content, with ten-megapixel digital cameras, HD video camcorders, powerful yet inexpensive desktop software, and Web-based communities.

So come and explore developing trends in consumer electronics technology, and to see the latest portable digital devices and other tech gadgets.