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At Torrent, we believe that maximum performance can co-exist with minimal environmental impact. We apply innovation and thoughtful design to develop high-performance, high-quality electronics in the most eco-friendly way. These include our SureConnect⢠HDMI⢠and component cables incorporating our patent-pending  MagLocâ˘, VeriFYIâ˘, AmpliFire⢠and Signal Armor⢠technologies for more reliable connectivity, reduced interference, data correction and enhancement; all steeped in green sensibility from the get-go. The result? Superior performance for consumers, diminished waste for earth. Founded in 2007, Torrent is headquartered in  Needham ,  Massachusetts . Additional information is available at www.torrent-inc.com.
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Torrent SureConnect HDMI cables are perfect for those who want advanced performance for HDTVs, Blu-rayâ˘, HD DVD, satellite systems and heavy gaming applications. Torrent offers a range of HDMI cables that bring immersive sound and clear picture quality to your home theater without bringing harmful substances into your home.
SureConnect HDMI cables outperform current low-end and high-end HDMI cables by offering innovative new features which help overcome the problems with interference, the troubles with longer HDMI cabling runs, and the well-documented issues with HDMIâs connector specification.Â
Torrentâs patent-pending MagLoc⢠technology improves the HDMI connection strength by 3x to 5x through the use of a magnet built into the connector, ensuring optimal connectivity while sparing the headache of trouble shooting the disconnection problem. MagLoc also features an auto-adjusting sleeve, allowing the connector to adapt to the wide ranging depths of HDMI ports across various devices while also protecting the connector tip from accidental damage. MagLoc is the only locking mechanism that is certified compliant with the HDMI 1.3C specification.
All Torrent cables support a minimum of 1080p resolution. Many SureConnect models also feature Torrentâs unique VeriFYIÂŽ connection confirmation light, Signal ArmorÂŽ five layer shielding, and AmpliFire⢠equalization processor. Plus SureConnect HDMI cables are constructed using the highest-grade, highest-performing materials including: 24K gold connectors, nitrogen injected gas dielectric, and the purest copper available. All Torrent products are covered by a lifetime warranty.
Peter Rojas, Co-Founder, gdgt
Peter Rojas
Co-Founder
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Peter Rojas is the co-founder of gdgt, a new gadget site. He is also the founder of RCRD LBL, an ad-supported free music site, as well as the creator and founding editor of several popular technology blogs, including Engadget, Gizmodo, Joystiq, hackaday, and Engadget Mobile.
Sarah Bussell, Product Marketing Manager, Business Notebooks, Notebook Global Business Unit, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett Packard

Sarah Bussell is Product Marketing Manager for Business Notebooks in the Notebook Global Business Unit at HP. She leads the product marketing team and manages the roadmap strategy and product definitions for HPâs business notebook line.
Bussell has spent 9 years in business notebook product marketing at HP. Her earlier career includes product marketing roles in the technology industry and research positions in the biomedical field. Â In total, Sarah has more than 12 years experience in mobile computing.
Sarah holds an MBA from the University of Houston and a BS in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University.
Aaron Cohen, CEO anyClip.com
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Aaron Cohen has 12 years of Internet Media experience in consumer Internet as senior executive. Â He has completed 13 transactions involving the buying, selling or capitalizing of early-stage Internet media companies. Â He has founded or co-founded 4 startups, and served as CEO for two companies as a non-founder. Â In the aggregate, Aaronâs companies have generated nearly $100mm for shareholders.
Starting in March of 2009, Aaron became the CEO of anyClip.com, a Jerusalem and New York-based media and technology company giving consumers and developers access to iconic moments from a rich library of licensed movies.
Aaron became the CEO of MenuPages in February of 2008 As CEO, Aaron expanded relationships with MenuPages partners including CitySearch and Tribune Company, and completed a sale of the company to Wasserstein Mediaâs New York Magazine in July of 2008.
Before MenuPages, Aaron was the CEO of Bolt Media and lead the company for 3 and half years during which he boosted revenue by 100% and repositioned the company as a leading video-based community. Â During Aaronâs tenure at Bolt, unique visitors grew from 1mm to 6mm per month. Â The companyâs advertisers included the leading youth marketers in virtually every advertising category such as Verizon Wireless, Coca Cola, Nike, and Wendyâs. Aaron sold the company to the GOFISH corporation (GOFH), a youth advertising network in August of 2007.
Archerfish

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Most peopleâs lives are in a dozen places at once â at work, when the kids come home from school, at the vacation home, on the road. But being in more than one place at a time was impossible â until now. ArcherfishÂŽ is the next evolution in personal place-shifting technology. It lets you be in as many places as you need to, virtually, when it matters.

Archerfish is the first and only mobile video intelligence (MVI) solution available today. Using a combination of video cameras, intelligent software and your own Archerfish SmartPortalâ˘, it âwatchesâ your business or home for events you define as important: an expected delivery, for example, or an unwelcome intruder. If and only when these events occur, Archerfish finds you and tells you about it by sending a notificationâalong with video of the eventâto your mobile device, email, or web portal. So you always know when something important happens â without watching video all day to find out. Traditional home-security and video-monitoring systems provide alerts. Only Archerfish provides intelligence.
Dr. Martin Kienzle, Chief Architect â Media Systems, IBM Digital Convergence EBO

Dr. Kienzle is the Chief Architect â Media Systems for the IBM Digital Convergence EBO. In this capacity he is specifying the technical requirements and defining the architectures for media systems. Â Prior to this position, Dr. Kienzle was Senior Manager, Intelligent Server Infrastructures, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. Â His responsibilities included the development of research and development strategies for media management technologies and media delivery infrastructures. He was managing several research efforts in these areas, and was the IBM Research Digital Media Substrategist, coordinating media-related research across the laboratories of the IBM Research Division.
Anthony Belpaire, General Manager, Touchatag

Anthony Belpaire is the General Manager of touchatagâ˘, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture.  Touchatag⢠enables consumers, applications developers and business to link everyday’s objects with online applications using 2D barcodes/Near Field Communications.
Touchatag⢠is used in a variety of environments: for example in an in-home application a father can use touchatag⢠to link his toddlerâs teddy bear to an online story about that same bear; in an outdoor environment touchatagâ˘makes it possible for a visitor to an art gallery to wave his Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile phone at a painting and then see the painterâs Wikipedia profile appear on the phoneâs screen; or in a business/logistics environment a cleaning company can, for example, use it to record that a room has been successfully cleaned through a simple touch of an NFC-enabled mobile phone to a touchatag-linked NFC tag that has been placed in the room.
Prior joining touchatagâ˘,  Anthony headed a number of start-ups in the online media and IT security domain from start to exit as Certipost, Info2clear and GlobalSign.
He started his career as Investment analyst at the innovation holding of a leading Belgian Publisher Corelio.
Anthony Belpaire has a Master in Telecommunications and graduated from the University of Ghent (Belgium). Upon completion, he undertook further studies on AI at the University of Valencia (Spain) and Intelligent Agents at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).
JFDI Engineering – GridSearch
JFDI Engineering mission is to create fast forward technology for the video-on-demand age.
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GridSearch is a technology for navigating effectively through video files, whether stored locally or streamed from a server. The faster the conventional forwarding speed the more difficult it is to spot what you want to find, and the worse the overshoot when you find it. Available as a software plug-in for Microsoftâs Media Center and video player for Microsoft Windows users, licensing GridSearch to CE device manufacturers and VOD suppliers is the main business model.
The WebAround
The WebAround is a flexible, collapsable, portable webcam backdrop. Please visit www.thewebaround.com for more information
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Hantech Corporation
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Hantech is a high-technology oriented company specializing in entertainment systems. Our mission is to enrich people’s lives through innovative digital products which far exceed those based on traditional technology. To learn more about Hantech and their products please visit www.hantech.ca
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Hantech’s SISO TABLO
Tablo for laptop (Model: TL-01 Series) is an innovative pen input device performing a full tablet function with simple installation. Tablo supports perfect tablet compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP and Vista and provides the finest handwriting, drawing, sketching and illustration with simple touch. This excellent pen mouse allows maximizing its convenience while using following software; Microsoft Windows Live messenger, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Journal Note, and Sticky Note and Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, PDF, and many more programs where mouse is normally used. Create and personalize your documents with your own style!Â
  
⪠Easily transform normal laptop to powerful tablet PC
⪠Direct input on screen or on the air like Nintendo Wii with emotional handwriting (2D & 3D)
⪠Large coverage of laptop screen size up to 15.4â
⪠Perfect brush effect by speed pressure technology
⪠Plug & play on Microsoft Windows Vista & Office 2007
⪠Perfect tablet compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP by provided TABLO annotator software
⪠Convergence of Digital & Ink Pen
⪠Ultra portable tablet system
⪠Sleek & modern design
âPress has been great. Our PR firm has attributed over 22 million impressions online at various tech sites since the CEA Line Shows..â
â Jono Pinksy, Viologht
” Our client ThinkEco did 82 press interviews and demos in two days! We canât complain. The CEA Line Show in NYC is an excellent venue for start-ups like ThinkEco because it attracts top shelf press and business prospects who have more time to spend at the booth. People didnât pass by, they all came over to talk. From start to finish, a professional, yet intimate, conference that netted big results –P.S. The food was excellent too!”
â Anne Steinbergm, Managing Director, Kitchen Public Relations for ThinkEco
âCEAÂ Line Shows is a critical event for my teams at Engadget, Switched, TUAW, and Download Squad. In a tech editorial environment that is increasingly (and understandably) remote and mobile, in-person shows like these are a welcome rarity. Not only do they get my guys and girls out of their home offices, but they have also created innumerable hands-on and breaking stories chock-full of the video and images our readers have come to love and expect. The smaller size of CEA Line Shows means that my journalists can get their job done in a consumable environment as compared to the multi-day, exhausting conferences. Both have their place, but I am for one forever a fan of the smaller CEA Line Shows.â
â Joshua Fruhlinger, Editorial Director, AOL Tech.
âAll in all, the CEA Line Shows was a big success, especially for an initial effort. I urge other manufacturers of home-theater products to sign up for next year â youâll save loads of money compared to putting on an individual line show, and youâll save journalists loads of time, a commodity in very short supply these days. Itâs a win-win in an otherwise lose-lose economy.â
â UltimateAVmag.com Editor, Scott Wilkinson.
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