(iTers News) – With just two days away from the opening of IFA 2012, exhibitors, construction workers, organizing staffs are busy with putting finishing touches to their works- show floor booth decorations and utility set-ups.
Some of early birds are even putting an array of highlight exhibits to the final test to make sure their proper operations.
Running from August 31 through September 5 in Berlin, Germany, the annualized consumer electronics trade show is a sort of technology prowess extravaganza to demonstrate what will trend up as “Next Big Things”.
As a clue to what will prevail over the entire show floors as an eye-popper during the 6-day show period, world’s two largest TV maker –Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics- are hanging up their prodigious outdoor advertisement billboards across the show site reading ‘The world’s largest AMOLED and slimmest LED TV”
The two Korean consumer electronics titans already showed off their respective 55-inch AMOLED TVs of different TFT-backplane technologies – oxide TFT from LG and LTPS from Samsung- at CES 2012 in early January.
It remains to be seen who will come up with bigger one that not only can outsize other’s, but also rightly measure up to their advertisement readings.
According to press officer Nicole von der Ropp with Messe Berlin GmbH, the size of the whole occupied trade show floors by exhibitors gets 1.4% bigger than in 2011 to hit 142,200 square meters, but she didn't comment on how many more exhibitors have signed up to occupy the show floor.
AMOLED TVs aren’t the only ‘Next Big Thing”. 4K-ready TVs as well as other 4K-ready peripherals will come onto the spotlight, including 4K-ready Blu-ray players, 4k-ready STBs and DSCs, as consumer electronics titans are pinning their hopes on consumers’ hunger for pixel-awash viewing experiences for next killer apps that can revitalize long idle demand for TVs.
MHL, or Mobile High-definition Link full HD interface technology from mobile devices to TVs an car infotainment systems will proliferate across the show floors, too, as consumers are eager to mirror their full HD viewing experiences on large size screens in the living room, or cars.
The MHL is wired full HD interface technology through which to carry full HD contents onto large size screens.
Smart home appliances like Internet-enabled refrigerators and washing machines will come into focus, too, featuring high-speed Internet connectivity, smart sensors, and smart control system.
For example, Samsung plans to take the wrap off its eco-bubble washing machine product line-up, promising to revolutionize the way that housewives are laundering their clothes with their washing machines. To throw the spotlight on the new breakthrough technology, Samsung has set up an oversized statue at an the South entrance gate of the show sites,which symbolizes an inner part of a washing machine.
Take a look at a photon gallery below and enjoy them
Video & Photo by JH Bae
