Tech Trill

Dennis Rodman-- American Hall of Fame Professional Basketball player. Dennis Rodman is one of the greatest rebounders ever to play professional basketball.
Robert Horry-- Robert Keith Horry Jr. is a retired American basketball player and a current sports commentator.
John Salley-- John Salley accepted a Basketball Scholarship to Georgia Tech to play for legendary head coach Bobby Cremins.
Allison Fishman-- Allison Fishman is a cooking teacher and cookbook author.
Eliza Dushku(CES Celebrity Ambassador )-- Actress Eliza Dushku will represent the Entertainment Matters at CES program as the Entertainment Matters Ambassador.
Jordan Rudess-- Jordan is a recording artist, composer, producer and performer.
Jillian Michaels-- Jillian's passion for fitness originates from 17 years of devoted practice in the fields of martials arts, personal training, health and wellness.
Miss Jamie Michelle-- Jamie has been modeling and acting for the past nine years. The 26 year old is one of So Cal's most popular and requested models with a pretty impressive resume.
LL Cool J-- Hip-hop artist, author, actor. Born James Todd Smith on January 14, 1968. Growing up in New York City, Smith adopted the stage name LL Cool J, which stood for Ladies Love Cool James.
Carl Banks-- Carl Banks is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League from 1984 to 1995 for the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Browns.
Jose "Hyde" Cotto-- Jose “Hyde” Cotto is a 2 Time Grammy Award Winning, Multi-Platinum Producer/Engineer & Pioneer in urban music worldwide. Hyde is considered one of the biggest pioneers that transformed urban music into the worldwide phenom it is today.
50 Cent--  Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper and actor. 
Alistair Overeem-- Alistair Overeem is a British born Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer, recently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship where in his first UFC bout he defeated former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar by TKO only 2:26 into the first round.
Greg Grunberg-- Television actor Greg Grunberg, best known for his starring role on the NBC television series Heroes will join OnStar for their Tweet House sessions, the official social media track for CES.
Wayne Brady-- Emmy winner and Grammy nominated actor, singer, Wayne Brady, known for his work as a regular on the American version of comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, will join OnStar for their Tweet House sessions, the official social media track for CES, on Wednesday, January 11 from 1-5 p.m.
James Bond Directors and Girls-- Panasonic will host Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s second annual Directors’ Panel. This year’s panel discussion will kick off the 50th anniversary of MGM’s James Bond.
Jabbawockeez-- Jabbawockeez, the all-male, hip-hop dance crew best known for winning season one of MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” and headliner at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, making them the first and only dance crew to headline their own show in Las Vegas will perform at CES, opening Qualcomm’s keynote address.
Chicago-- Monster, Inc. will host their annual Retailer Awards and Concert, featuring real music from the legendary Chicago, on Wednesday, January 11 at the Paris Hotel.
Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011-- Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, will walk the CES show floor from 10-11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 10. Teresa competed in the 2011 Miss America pageant as Miss Nebraska. The Miss America 2012 pageant is scheduled January 14 at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and will be televised on ABC.

Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): An Arizonan engineer has come up with a wearable LED television that can be worn as a jacket and shows episodes of American animated sitcom, The Simpsons.
David Forbes, an electrical engineer by profession, was keen on building something really cool to wear at the Burning Man festival. So he re-purposed a comparatively simple flexible circuit board covered with LEDs.

He made the first with 30 rows of four LEDs each and then contracted a manufacturer to build 175 more of them. He attached them to an old coat and was able to build a display with a 160 x 120 resolution, which he notes on his blog is exactly half that of an iPod, Discovery News reported.

So in the upcoming years all the electronic gadgets uses this type of technology so that the gadgets will have long life and more durable.
The self healing technology involves creating circuits with gold lining and a layer of micro capsules. The damage for the circuits is mainly due to temperature effect. i.e circuits will get heated up and the heat will damage or cracks the circuit.
When such things happen due to temperature the microcapsules will automatically disperse themselves into the cracks, filling the gap and restoring conductivity to the circuit.

A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear, the first of its kind. The new technology, called transparent resistive random access memory (TRRAM).
The new chip is similar in type to an existing technology known as complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) memory common commercial chips that provide the data storage for USB flash drives and other devices. Like CMOS devices, the new chip provides "non-volatile" memory, meaning that it stores digital information without losing data when it is powered off. Unlike CMOS devices, however, the new TRRAM chip is almost completely clear."It is a new milestone of transparent electronic systems," says researcher Jung Won Seo, who is the first author on the paper. "By integrating TRRAM device with other transparent electronic components, we can create a total see-through embedded electronic system."
"We are sure that TRRAM will become one of alternative devices to current CMOS-based flash memory in the near future after its reliability is proven and once any manufacturing issues are solved," says Professor Jae-Woo Park, who is Seo's co-advisor and co-author on the paper. He adds that the new devices have the potential to be manufactured cheaply because any transparent materials can be utilized as substrate and electrode. They also may not require incorporating rare elements such as Indium.

Intel may unveil its next generation of processors--nicknamed "Ivy Bridge"--in April, according to the latest reports. The Ivy Bridge chips for desktops and laptops promise a 37 percent performance increase over the current generation of Sandy Bridge processors.

The new Ivy Bridge CPUs use a 22-nanometer architecture, which makes them almost 30 percents smaller than the current chips, which use a 32nm architecture. Smaller chips mean lower power consumption (which is great for battery life) and more room for the integrated graphics chip. Ivy Bridge will support DirectX 11, Thunderbolt, and USB 3.0.

Taiwan-based trade publication DigiTimes reports that the first Ivy Bridge processors to launch will be quad-core desktop processors: the Core i7-3370 series and the Core i5-3570, 3550, and 3450. Because Ivy Bridge is backward-compatible with existing Sandy Bridge motherboards, desktop users should have an upgrade path available.

The first Ivy Bridge notebook chips to launch, according to DigiTimes, will be the Core i7 chips as well: The Core i7-3920QM, 3820QM, and 3720QM. Core i5 processors will pop up later.

Ivy Bridge will be smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient, and should be here in just a few months.

A Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is an oscillating circuit whose output frequency changes in direct proportion to an input voltage. VCOs can be made to oscillate from a few Hertz to hundreds of GHz. Every wireless device in use today has some sort of voltage controlled oscillator inside it. For example, there is a least one VCO inside every cell phone that generates the Radio Frequency (RF) waves that are used to communicate by-directionally to the cell tower.