The display, still in its sampling stage, is designed to satisfy military, medical, design and engineering applications where image quality is if highest importance. Previously only high resolution CRT displays could full fill these types of roles. The $7,000USD unit supports a native resolution of 3840x2400 pixels (9.2 megapixel panel), a brightness value of 235 nits, contrast ratio of 400:1 and viewing angles of 170/170 degrees. The display weights just over 25lbs, and draws 150 Watts of power making it somewhat power hungry.

Viewsonic had a slew of other LCD's and CRT's on display, but it was perhaps their airpanel wireless monitor which had the most attention of attendees. The airpanel is a cross between an LCD display, and a tablet PC, the main difference being that it serves as a portal to communicate with a standard desktop computer instead of primarily acting as a computer itself.

It may be a bit complex for users faced with the arrival of so many different types of full-fledged Tablet PC's but if you think of it as basically a remote display it makes sense.

James Little of Belkin walked us through a new range of Bluetooth peripherals based on a USB interface. The small adaptors, and larger antenna clad units make it easy to network a host of yet to be released Bluetooth gear like printers, cellphones, PDA's, etc. The little adaptors retail for about $70USD, and have a range of about 10 meters at 721kbps. Bluetooth devices are set to really take off this year, and with motherboard manufacturers like MSI now offering optional Bluetooth kits with a few of their boards the demand is only going to grow.

A big metering component on this growth will be what to do with Bluetooth once you have it. Small devices like the two units we saw from Belkin will be really successful in short distance wireless networking, but it will be peripherals like printers, digital cameras, cell phones, PDA's and who knows what else that will really drive the end consumer into this arena of networking.