Well, I arrived here in Las Vegas for the 2nd day of the show because I had to finish some necessary business activities in Utah before leaving. I won't be able to get to EVERYTHING at the show this year because it's just too big to cover in only 3 days. However, my son Eric came with me this year, so he's going to be helping me search for new and useful technology that we can use at GlobalTmail. Hopefully, between the two of us, we can STILL cover the entire show.
Friday, January 8 was an extraordinary day. This is Eric's first time at CES so i showed him the layout and how to locate the kind of technology that would be helpful for the company. We took a number of photos that will be posted here soon. Unfortunately, at the time i'm writing this I don't have time to upload them because I must get over to today's venue and begin the hunt! It's Saturday morning right now, and we're looking forward to an entire day of talking-tech to others in the industry.
Yesterday, the most significant "finds" were two things that I found last year. The first was the Xambox. This is the most amazing scanner-filer system I have ever seen. It will help us enormously with the filing of paper documents. Paper filing is an essential part of ANY business, but it can be very time-consuming and costly if done right. The Xambox is a very fast scanner, that will scan and sort ANY size document, front and back at the same time, then OCR the contents ("Optical Character Recognition" ... it just means the machine will "read" everything on the form as if i was typed in). All this data is then stored in a search-engine and retrievable, while the image of the document, front and back, is stored as a PDF. With this device, filing is simple: Every piece of paper to be filed is just scanned and dropped into a box (the machine even tracks which box and 'where' in the box it is located! If any document needs to be retrieved later, EVERYTHING is online, searchable from the keyboard. It's fantastic! At about $2,500 this device will pay for itself in only a month or two!
The send great thing we are researching here is the vast improvement in "pico" projectors. These are tiny little projectors, about the size of the very small cell phones we find everywhere now. They can project movies and ...most importantly for US ... POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS... from your cell phone! It's pretty amazing. What a great way to do a presentation "on the fly!" Now, with nothing more than a cell phone...and a pico projector...we can make sales presentations anytime, anywhere, with devices that fit into a shirt pocket. I'll have some photos of Eric demonstrating this device online tonight or tomorrow. Although they are a little pricey, this is the type of equipment that can pay for itself in very short order. I expect we'll be testing the usefulness of one of these devices during 2010 in field tests before we recommend it to our Associates. But early indications are that this will be a real winner!
Please check out tomorow's report. I'll show you what I find today. But for now, I'm "off to the races!" (Again.)
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