by Susan Schreiner | Dec 4, 2019 | ARTICLES, C4 IN THE NEWS, Technology
New advancements in IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), 5G and analytics are offering new business opportunities in the smart sports world. And for those who want to improve their golf, tennis, baseball or basketball performance there’s a growing selection of connected...
by Susan Schreiner | Aug 16, 2018 | ARTICLES, As Seen in i3 Magazine, C4 IN THE NEWS, Innovation, Technology, Trends
Smart, connected technologies are developing at an exponential rate. These innovations – including cloud computing and platform technologies, big data and analytics, mobile solutions, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, speech and artificial intelligence (AI)...
by Susan Schreiner | Jun 21, 2018 | ARTICLES, As Seen in i3 Magazine, C4 IN THE NEWS, Innovation, Technology, Trends
Eliza, one of the first chat bots, was introduced more than 50 years ago. But it wasn’t until Siri in 2011, Alexa in 2014, and Facebook’s Bots launch in 2016, that the mass market noticed controversial assistants. Chatbots are ushering in a new era of...
by Susan Schreiner | Dec 10, 2015 | ARTICLES, Technology, What's Hot
Clearly the camera phone has disrupted the imaging and photography market. Sharing images and video over platforms like Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube has put the lower-end of the digital imaging industry in a tailspin and threatened point-and-shoot cameras. The...
by Susan Schreiner | Sep 14, 2015 | ARTICLES
Susan Schreiner (susan@c4trends.com) is the founder and editor of C4Trends.com and a veteran journalist who covers developments in consumer technology. She is also a CE industry and events analyst. Two of the latest buzzwords are Internet of Things (a.k.a., IoT) and...
by Susan Schreiner | May 26, 2015 | ARTICLES
Based on what we saw on the 2015 International CES floor, the wellness and fitness category is on the verge of taking off in a big way. Some of these devices are “true” wearables in that they attach onto a body in some way—like a smartwatch, fitness band, eyewear, or...
