SUNDAY, Jan 6, (News Locale) - Here is a gala time for the tech lovers from all over the world as the largest consumer electronics show (CES) will open its doors in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Monday.  

Over 20,000 new gadgets and technologies from more than 2,700 companies will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show offering the tech lovers and interpreters a golden opportunity to assess the dominant technology products and themes for the impending year. And experts say that those who would be lucky enough to be present at the CES would find it difficult to gauge the exhibits amidst a storm of sound, light and excitement.

In all over 2,700 exhibitors will be endeavoring to draw the attention of the industry as well as the enthusiasts to more than 20,000 products whose technology will be more powerful than ever and future-oriented. The CES is being organized on a sprawling area that is larger than 37 football fields put together and the CES Convention Center has been set up near the gambling hub in the deserts of Nevada.

The technology to be displayed at the CES this year will be smarter. more perceptive as well as more effective to our lives, this year. Again, while some of the companies would try to out do the other by displaying the minutest technologies in the form of cell phones and laptop computers, there will be other who would bring to the fore gigantic gadgets like a crop of the flat-panel televisions that may be as huge as a tall man.

The iPhone launched in 2007 has already set the benchmark showing how a product can be stylish as well as conforming to the consumers’ requirements and still be a smashing commercial hit.

This year’s exciting displays at the CES will include a new kind of television set from Samsung built on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology enabling users to watch brighter images, while cutting down on power bills.  Moreover, these sets would be sleeker and hence more expensive.

Again a new initiative by National Public Radio utilizing technology firm Harris Corporation and Towson University is developing radio for the deaf, a counter-intuitive sounding system that translates speech radio into text in real time. Currently, the voice-to-text conversion has to be done by typists, but could soon be automatic.

The information is broadcast alongside the voice transmission and displayed on a screen on the radio. The association will transmit the first live broadcast at CES using a prototype radio that has a screen large enough to display big swathes of text.

On the mobile phone front, the P2P Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) has developed a set of networking standards that allow mobiles to remotely control domestic appliances from afar.

At CES the consortium showed off an iPhone application that allowed a user to control a flat in Tokyo. The user can switch lights on and off, control the air conditioning and even turn the washing machine on. And later this year, the group will release software that will allow anybody to build applications using the standards.

Significantly, this year companies participating at the CES are vying with each other to ‘go green’ They are clamoring to be know as the most environment-friendly company with minimum toxic effusions.