Coolest Booth So Far

NEC's booth will guess your age. There's no UC tie-in, but it's really slick technology.

Best booth experience for me, at this or any show recently: NEC's facial-recognition display.This really cool display was, by Jay Krauser's own admission, mostly the hook to draw people in to see the products on display; it isn't a UC play, at least not yet. But it does get the mind racing about potential UC tie-ins.

See, you look into the full-length, 4-screen panel, and it locks in on your face, and using algorithms and some sort of magic, it records your gender and its projection of your age range. The application, as NEC's Krauser explained to me, is that you put this technology into a digital sign, and then you can collect data about what demographics of viewers look at the thing for how long.

But what's totally awesome about this thing is it guessed my age range as 32-42 years old. Made my day, considering that I'm 47. NEC's booth will guess your age. There's no UC tie-in, but it's really slick technology.