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>> the annual trade show for consumer technology. this is the largest trade show in the world, and "the communicators" is on location. this week we'll look at some of the new technologies that are coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. this is "the communicators" on c-span from las vegas. well one of the larger exhibitors here at ces in vegas is swell, and joining us now -- is intel, and joining us now is andrea raines. what are you displaying this year that's new and then i want to talk about the contest that you're having. >> guest: okay. so we're doing a lot of new things here this year. we're showing a lot of our wearable devices that came out in 2014. a lot of them were announced in partnership with ces last year. we're also showcasing a lot of

the products that came out of the -- [inaudible] that we also announced last year. we announced three winners, and the grand prize winner was -- [inaudible] and they won $500,000 for their project. >> host: this was a wearable contest. >> guest: yes. >> host: okay. what was the winner? what was the actual invention? >> guest: it's a flying drone can. it's a flying selfie drone. you wear it on your wrist, and when you want to talk a picture, you gesture, it flies off your list, and it takes a picture and comes back to you like a boomerang. it's this really cool project. all the projects were really amazing, we were shocked. >> host: now, is that something that intel's going to put on the market or get on the market somehow? >> guest: we continue to support the make it wearable challenge contestants, but, yes, we showcased it at the keynote

yesterday. our ceo had them on stage. >> host: andrea raines, this year's contest, what are you what do you have this year? >> guest: so these are the finalists from the past year, and we announced we're going to do the competition again this coming year. >> host: so, andrea raines, you have some inventer finalists here. who are -- who's here? besides nixie? >> guest: yes, so we have finalists from the challenge that we announced last year and the challenge cull by nateed in october -- can culminated in october of last year. >> host: and these are the young scientists from all over the world. >> guest: all ages and we had over a thousand applicants we narrowed it down to ten finalists that we thought brought the most interesting products, and they showcased in october in san francisco. a panel of judges, everyone from the ceo of best buy to -- [inaudible] >> host: and what did the finalists win? >> guest: the top finalists won $50 to 0,000 from intel. --

$500,000 from intel. >> host: what about the semifinalist? >> guest: the second place winner won $200,000. >> host: let's go talk to some of the finalists. and the winner of the intel wearables project, jessica clark, what do you do with nixie? >> guest: yes. i get people excited about our products which is really easy in a place like this. >> host: how does this work? we heard about what it is, but how does it work? demonstrate it for us. >> guest: so it's a flying camera that you wear. this is just a prototype. the final product will be beautiful, but the prototype works, and we demonstrated it live last night at the keynote stage, so that was very exciting. you'll be going throughout your day, if there's something you want to capture, you take it off your wrist, and it'll be very

simple to take off your wrist and it will expand and it will be as easy as gesturing. it's completely autonomous. there's no remote required. you don't need to be wearing something. it's smart enough to know the direction you toss it, if it's a gentle toss, it'll stay close, if you throw it it'll go farther away and it will compose a photo, take a photo and come back completely autonomously. >> host: does it shoot video? >> guest: it'll do a photo a burst of photos or a short video. >> host: who came up with the idea? >> guest: the founders are a couple who he is a ph.d. in physics, and she is an ex-googleer, and they missed their daughter's first steps and they thought why isn't there something that would have allowed us to capture this moment, and they have been developing this product ever since. >> host: all right. demonstrate it down here on the computer, on the laptop. what are we seeing?

we're seeing the product actually being used? >> guest: so you're seeing our idea of how -- >> host: so she's thrown the drone at this point. >> guest: yeah. this one is demonstrating the boomerang mode where you would toss it out, and it would -- it used inner -- inertia for navigation. >> host: so he throws it out, and it comes back to him at some to point. >> guest: yes. and it has a camera. >> host: now $500,000 awarded from spell, correct? >> guest: yep. >> host: and when will this product be on the market? >> guest: absolutely as soon as we can get it on the market, but we just won this contest two months ago and we've spent that time developing this working prototype which we thousand have, and the next step is to refine it because we want it to be very comfortable to wear and continue to make it very organic and easy to use. >> host: and where is nixie

based? >> guest: we're based in lossal toss california. >> host: thank you. another one of the companies exhibiting here at ces is kaled parrot. francois callou of parrot becaused in paris, what does pair t ott do? how long has it been around? >> guest: oh, it's been around for 15 years and we're doing just fun products. so for now five years we're doing drones for the consumer market and the brand new one is the bee bop drone that you can see back there. it's a small -- [inaudible] safe and secure, and so you have a front camera. it's 180-degree field of view camera inside. so what's great about it, you can take picture from 180 degrees, or you can --

[inaudible] the video, and it's 80-degree field of view and 180-degree lens. you can stabilize the video. it's digital stable. just when the drone is still there, you move the window, you're regarding the sensor, and you have a small and stable video -- [inaudible] >> host: you said you're doing this for the consumer market. >> guest: yes. >> host: what, for people who may like to play video games i mean that type of person? this is not for -- [inaudible] >> guest: no not for business, just people dream of flying so they really like to fly, and it's fun for everyone. the video you can have the video recording of what you're doing, either skiing or just having fun with your friends or your family, and also we have the sky controller.

that's a remote control so you can have more wi-fi so you can go up to two kilometers with that and you have -- >> host: you can go to two kilometers in the air? >> guest: yeah. >> host: wow. >> guest: and -- [inaudible] also you have every connections, so the first person you experience like you put your googles, and you're flying, and it's a really great experience. >> host: mr. callou, if you want to download your video that you've shot from your drone does that do that automatically as well? is there software? >> guest: you have the video on the groan so you can either download it over wi-fi to your tablet or your smartphone, or you can connect the drone by usb on your pc, if you want. >> host: what's the price point on some of these drones? >> guest: for the bee bop it's

1299 and for the -- [inaudible] it's 899. >> host: are they selling well? >> guest: yeah good. >> host: are you selling them e here in the u.s.? >> guest: yes. >> host: how did you get into this business? into drone making? >> guest: like just, we were doing, in parrot we were doing all the devices for the smartphones, for the phones, all the devices like your car keys, headphones, and so we wanted to go to destroyeds and so -- droids and so o.k., we started to do a car and we said, oh it's not that fun so we started to do. >> host: and this is one of the products made by parrot out of paris. well, the parrot company doesn't only make drones, but it makes some interconnectivity devices as well. benjamin sebag of parrot is with us now. what is your position at parrot?

>> guest: i'm a project manager on the after market. so i work on the -- [inaudible] after market ideas. >> host: okay. well, the product that you're holding is one of the ces innovation award winners. what is this? >> guest: exactly. it's one of the best innovations throughout the whole ces. it's a standard-sized full -- [inaudible] for the car. usually -- [inaudible] as you can see on the back we design it to be fully integrated into any car. it has the possibility to get gps navigation to get digital to get audio in, audio out. we improved the integration into the car as it is can connected

to grab the information from the car and bring it to the driver. it's an after market -- [inaudible] assistant for driving. >> host: so it's in the category of interconnectivity and internet of things? >> guest: better, more integrated. >> host: will you demonstrate it for us. >> >> guest: yes. please follow me. >> host: all right. >> guest: so we also had the innovation award because we are compliant with apple car play and google -- >> host: so apple users and android users can use this. >> guest: every user. android side or apple side if you prefer windows, it's not such a big deal because we also have blue tooth 4.0 and

wi-fi five gigahertz allowing you to be fully connected to your phone. just keep your phone in your pocket -- [inaudible] the use the full voice recognition features from paris. >> host: okay. so this is the product. >> guest: no, it is connected. apple car play mode. as you can see on the apple phone and on the 6 as an example, the system itself talk to the phone and grab all the information from the phone to put it on the head unit. >> host: okay. >> guest: or if you want to listen to some music, it is exactly the same spirit. just get the information from your music, and it will play on the head unit. >> host: and so this is built into the car after market. >> guest: everything is built into the car. we also have our --

[inaudible] which is based on android -- [inaudible] this grabs all the information from the car as i was saying before, to get you full diagnostic. as an example, it can give you a global not on the way you drive, on the way you brake, on the way you use gas lean, to have analystly -- gasoline, to have an history of the way you drive or if you have a flat tire. >> host: how does this unit know that you have a flat tire? how does it sense that? >> guest: it's a specific connector. information is -- [inaudible] from the car. the car can say that, it can't push some information. we grab the information throughout the connector and bring it to the driver. and the last thing also is as i was telling you, we are also compliant with android auto. android auto is exactly the same

way, it works in exactly the same way as the apple car play -- >> host: here's the android doing. >> this is the nexus 5. it grabs the same information from the phone and allows you to have navigation from the phone. so you are the one who chooses if you want to use the application from your phone or if you want to use can the onboard navigation system. you are the one who decides what you want to see and what you want to do. >> host: are you able to, perhaps, monitor your house through device as well? >> guest: with specific application throughout the -- [inaudible] everything is possible. not imitation. >> host: e-mail? >> guest: e-mail not so safe for driving. [laughter] so let's say -- >> host: voicemail. >> guest: technically, yes. everything is possible. >> host: benjamin sebag with parrot, thank you very much. >> guest: yes, no problem. ♪

>> host: well, here at the ces international show in las vegas, one of the buzzed-about booths is the gopro booth. and joining us now at the booth is kelly leggoe of gopro. what is gopro? >> guest: gopro is an amazing, small, wearable camera. >> host: how was it developed? who developed it? >> guest: it was founded by nick woodman who is the ceo and founder, and he thought of this amazing idea when he was surfing in indonesia with some friends because he wanted to take pictures of he and his friends surfing, and it just kind of evolved. >> host: cameras are kind of old school, aren't they? with cell phones and everything? >> guest: yeah, well, cell phones are more reactive. these are more proactive so if you want to plan on something that you're interested in, like actually getting great, quality footage, you can plan your shots. >> host: kelly leg go, we're

looking at in this very small camera. is this hd? what's 2 technology? >> guest: so this is the hero 4. we have two different models, we have the ability to shoot at 4k30 and -- [inaudible] which is incredible for such a small camera. and this camera is the hero 4 silver which has the ability to shoot at 4k15, so still amazing quality, but it also has the integrated lcd screen so for the first time in the history you can frame up your shot and review your footage directly from the camera. >> host: so this takes still and video? >> guest: ye. >> host: and how does everything in here get to the tv screens? >> guest: well, there's a few different ways. so we actually have a gopro app which you can use from the why fife directly from your -- wi-fi direct hi there your camera, you can directly offload and control, you also have a go item pro studio so if you

connect the card into your exciter, you can directly off load into our studio where you can capture, create and share. >> host: well, now here at your display you have a dog wearing a camera and a little kid wearing a camera. >> guest: yeah. it's the world's most versatile camera. you can strap it to the handlebars of your bike, to the dog, you can strap it to your child with a junior chesty. >> host: and what's the quality of the video here? we have got this big camera that we're shooting some of this display with. how does it compare to our broadcast camera? >> guest: it's great. it's pretty comparable. like i said, it can shoot 4k30 so breathtaking footage. i go to a local distributer so whether that be a target or a walmart or my favorite mom and pop shop i buy it i go on the mountain, i'm like oh man, i

want some great shots, so i go home two to the studio to make an ed fit and share it on my -- edit and share it on my personal media. >> host: and here's the software. >> guest: basically, you take your content es directly from your camera and you can edit and trim and convert your clips all in the studio and then create a comprehensive edit through the easy-to-use interface. we've also tried to make it as easy as possible for our users so we've created gopro studio template which are pre-edited templates where you can drag and drop your footage. >> host: first of all, what's your background? >> guest: before gopro, i was working for a software company acquired by gopro in 2011, and part of that acquisition was to help develop an editing solution for more gopro camera users. so we've spent the last few years making gopro studio

software and this -- >> host: and this is it that we're looking at here. it looks awfully complicated. >> guest: it's not. it's on a very big screen, it's on a 4k display. it's pretty easy. we try to make it very easy and when you first launch it, les a tutorial that kind of walks you through what to do. basically, here in step one this is where you, like, go through your footage, pick out the parts that you like. if you like a section, you add it to this conversion list over here, and then you convert all the file into the gopro. once you've done that, the trimmed versions show up over here. now instead of these big, long recordings that you recorded many your camera you've got just little highlights, the parking lots you actually like. from -- the parts you actually like. you drag each one down into the storyboard in the order you'd

like them to play out. we've got an instagram style preset. this is all happening nondestructively. it's not applying it to the clips permanently. you can always go back to your original settings. click reset or clicking -- >> host: how much video can that little camera that kelly was showing us hold? oh, there she is. >> guest: shooting at an hd resolution at 30 frames per second, so with a 32 gigabyte card it'll hold about four hours' worth of content. if you're shooting in one of higher resolutions, it'll shorten the amount a little bit. basically, 32 gigabytes hd, 1080p30 is four hours. disprs and the editing suite comes with the camera? >> guest: it's actually a free download at gopro.com. anybody can download it. it works with gopro cameras as well as cannon and knew con as well as many random cameras.

if you've got a camera that shoots in that format, you can try gopro studio it might work. >> host: kelly leggoe, this might be a question for you or jake, i'm not sure but why wasn't this done before? >> guest: why was -- >> host: why wasn't this invented before? >> guest: i think a lot of people wanted to use it, but they never found the right parts or never found that specific -- [inaudible] so when nick found it, he ran with it. he worked extremely hard to get it put together and here it is today. >> host: gopro is one of the buzzed-about booths here at the ces international show. so another foreign company that's exhibiting here at ces international is huawei out of china. jack borg is with huawei. first of all what do you do with this company and where are you based in. >> guest: i am based in our plano office which is outside of

dallas texas, and i am a training manager for the u.s. >> host: what is huawei? >> guest: huawei is a multi-national corporation that is -- we are now the third largest phone manufacturer in the world. and we manufacture smartphones tablets. that's where we're the third largest, but then we also do networks routers, we're into pretty much everything in telecommunications worldwide. and in that area we are actually number one in the network side of it worldwide. >> host: and where is huawei based? >> guest: it's based in china our world headquarters. >> host: does huawei have products selling in the u.s. today? >> guest: absolutely. we actually have been selling in the u.s. for approximately six years, six and a half years. in multiple carriers carrying our products, and to this day we're slowly adding more also. >> host: now, can somebody buy a huawei phone in the u.s. today?

a cell phone? >> guest: absolutely. >> host: okay. how are they selling? because we hear so much about samsung and apple. >> guest: right. we're doing well. we entered the unlocked market just last year, so we started selling one of our devices on our own web site and that's been doing really well. finish and we plan on expanding that this year also. >> host: mr. borg, manufacturing a cell phone anymore, is it profitable? >> guest: it is. yeah. if you do it the right way. >> host: okay. let me see some of your phones. >> guest: definitely. okay, so this is probably the highlight of the show right now. this is part of our honor line. this is a 6 plus, so as you can see, it has a beautiful screen. it's a five and a half inch full hd screen, has one of the longest battery lives on the market. it has a 3600 battery which basically mean two two and a half days on one charge which is

a huge thing for consumers right now. of. >> host: using the android operating system? >> guest: android, yes. correct. one very unique feature on this device are the cameras -- >> host: cameras? >> guest: correct. so there are actually three cameras on this device. on the back you can see we have dual they're dual eight megapixel cameras along with the dual flash on that. i'll come back to that. we also have an eight megapixel on the front. so the dual rear cameras are for a very specific purpose, and i'll just do a quick demonstration. i'm going to take a picture and then i'll show you what the capabilities are. so using those two cameras, it gives you a unique perspective on the image itself. so if you tap the little shutter button right here it gives you the opportunity to change or refocus the image so you can refocus what's in the background

and then put this out of focus and you can change it for whatever area you'd like to. not only can you do that, you can also change the aperture, adjust the aperture on it, and you can bring that even more out of focus to bring the focus into this area: or you can, you can lower it down, and that keeps everything in balanced focus. so very unique feature along with the great filters for different, for the images. and then the front camera is unique because it is an eight megapixel, one of the highest megapixel cameras right on the front which gives you full hd selfies or video calls such as skype or something like that. >> host: have you been able to -- are these phones available in at&t stores or verizon stores? >> guest: not -- this device? >> host: yeah. >> guest: no. this device just launched about a week and a half ago, so right

now it's only available in china, and their expansion plans have not been given to us yet. >> host: what kind of expansion plans does huawei have for the u.s.? >> guest: um, i can't get into a lot of detail of it but we are definitely moving forward in the with devices, and our plan is to bring the honor line which is our new line of devices. we have three shown here at the show. we will be bringing this into the u.s. this year. so not one of these devices but our own one specific for the u.s. >> host: a little bit about huawei with jack borg. thank you sir. >> guest: thank you. >> host: and "the communicators" is on location in las vegas for the annual ces international consumer technology show. largest trade show in the world. if you're interested in seeing more of our programming, you can go to c-span.org/communicators.

>> c-span, created by america's cablen companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> former federal reserve board chairman ben bernanke is the keynote speaker today at an event hosted by the center on budget and policy priorities. it will include a discussion with economists about policies that can help restore and maintain full employment in u.s. labor markets. we'll have that live at 9:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. now the supreme court oral argument on whether texas officials must issue a license plate with the confederate battle flag on it. in walker v. the texas division of the sons of confederate veterans the court is considering if the state can veto messages on specialty

license plates or if that violates free speech rights. this is an hour. >> we'll hear argument first this morning in case 14144, john walker v. the texas division of the sons of confederate veterans. mr. keller? >> thank you mr. chief justice, and may it please the court messages on texas license plates are government speech. the state of texas etches its name onto each license plate and texas law gives the state sole control and final approval authority over everything that appears on a license plate. texas is not abridging any traditional free speech rights. motorists remain free to speak through all sorts of ways including through a bumper sticker right next to their license plate or a paint job or window decal but the first amendment does not mean a motorist can impel any government to put a confederate battle flag on its license

plate. >> well, one of the problems that we're seeing the nebulous standard would be regarded as offensive to many people. is it government speech to say mighty fine brokers to advertise a product? >> the government -- yes justice ginsburg. the government is allowed the choose the messages that it wishes to, and simply because it has approved messages or endorsed messages or is accepting and generating revenue propagate those messages doesn't defeat the tact that it is government speech. when the library of congress stakes sponsorship from "the washington post" or wells fargo for the national book festival, that's still government speech when they then put it on their welcome back site. >> suppose texas erected 500 electronic billboards around the state, and on those billboards they posted some government messages wear your seat belt when you're driving, for example.

but then at the bottom people could put a message of their choice. would that be government speech? >> justice alito, i think the portion that the government had final approval authority and sole control over, that would be government speech. if the government doesn't have final authority over another portion, i think that -- >> well, at the bottom. government has the same kind of approval authority that it has here. it'll allow people to say inoffensive things but if they say something that's offensive then they won't allow that. that would be government speech? >> it would be government speech under, i think the best reading of -- [inaudible] and johanns together. final approval authority, and the government isn't abridging other traditional free speech rights. even if that were -- >> but i'm sorry, i don't understand. almost anything the government does it has final authority to veto. i mean, whether it's a school or a government web site, it also retains the authority to the say no. the issue is when can i