In an example of the type of “electronic ecosystems” that are brewing here at CES, Chicago-based Cobra Electronics on Tuesday showcased the iRadar, which becomes GPS-enabled by downloading an app that syncs the device to an iPhone or iPod Touch.

In the spring, the app will be upgraded to include a real-time data gathering component. “The iRadar detectors will be able to share information, kind of like Tweeting,” Cobra senior vp marketing Sally Washlow said. “So if I’m driving around and I pick up a radar signal it will upload it to a cloud, and will send it out to other iRadar users.”

The device detects the location of conventional radar as well as red light- and speed cameras. An Android version is scheduled to debut in March.

“The neat thing is, the iRadar detector is $129, whereas most radar detectors with GPS built in cost $400 and up,” Washlow noted.

Worried about who might be eavesdropping on your mobile phone calls? A new company called Kryptos Communications is showing an app to provide secure, fully encrypted voice communications over mobile phones.

Kryptos provides VoIP connectivity for secure calls over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi if users on both ends have downloaded the app. The service is reasonably priced at $4.99/month, with no contract required. The Kryptos app is already available for iPhone, with Android coming later this month and Blackberry in February.

Might be an interesting solution for executives, teams working on sensitive projects, or paparazzi-dodging celebrities.

Qualcomm generated some buzz at the show with their new Mirasol Display for mobile devices.

Unlike traditional LCD screens that must be backlit, the Mirasol display uses a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) to manipulate the amount of space between two conductive plates to reflect ambient light in full-color. This gives the screen many of the same benefits of E-Ink displays, including the ability to operate with extremely low-power consumption in full-sunlight.

Unlike E-Ink however, these displays are able to switch extremely fast, allowing for full-motion video. The screen was fully functional and the video ran smooth, although the colors left a little to be desired. Qualcomm is also working on edge-lighting that can be switched on in dark environments.

Reps expect the screen to be in products on shelves this year. The Mirasol Display site features a great video demo.

Digital content has quickly become the norm in a user’s daily life. And the need to be able to share, move, and enjoy the content at home in a seamless unified way is quickly becoming a demand that must be met. If digital is the way of the future, users must feel comfortable and have the means to share and move content around, without having to worry about the logins, IP address, or network settings.

Aiming to make it easier for consumers, Samsung has introduced AllShare, their software platform that uses DLNA to move content around a user’s home network. AllShare will allow many of Samsung new products such as the Galaxy Tab, the Galaxy smartphone, Blu-ray players, TVs, and home router to move content around the network seamlessly.

Using AllShare, a Blu-ray player can stream a movie out to a Galaxy Tab or smartphone. Also, the user can share photos from their Samsung camera or mobile phone and stream a photo slideshow to their TV. The platform even allows cameras to automatically back up photos to a computer, even if the camera is turned off.

Pioneer has announced a new platform that is immediately available to developers, and hopefully in the near future to users.

The Platform for the Aggregation of Internet Services (PAIS), will enable users to have a single login that can access all of a user’s social networking, music, video, contact, calendar accounts and much more from multiple content/service providers.

The PAIS API allows users’ devices to seamlessly access and share information among a variety of services, allowing for a new level of interactivity among the various users’ accounts. For example, using a PAIS-enabled TV, a user can look up a restaurant on Yelp and send out an invite with directions to their Facebook friend seemlessly. Then when the users get in their car, the PAIS-enabled GPS would automatically input the address. When the user arrives at the destination, their PAIS-enabled mobile device can let the user connect to friends who have already arrived.

Many in the consumer electronics industry feel that the future of applications and services will always be fractured, and by introducing the PAIS layer, Pioneer hopes to enable mashups from multiple information sources. This is one of the first attempts to consolidate and wrangle the myriad of user accounts and put them in a single place. But what’s the most compelling is the attempt by Pioneer to have PAIS manage and marry the various pieces of information and services into a single seamless user experience. As it stands right now, Pioneer has managed to release PAIS ready built with services from VoiceBox, AccuWeather.com, Yelp, Wcities, Facebook, Twitter, Slacker Radio, Google Calendar, and more to come.

Ultimately it will be up to devices and services developers to enable PAIS, before consumers can even imagine a seamlessly integrated world.

Verizon — partnered with Panasonic — is streaming Full HD 3D, in a technology demonstration set up in the South Hall Blogger Lounge. The companies suggest that this is another way of delivering quality 3D content to the home.

Plans are to offer this capability through FiOS, which in the demo was used to stream at 18Mpbs from its media server to a Panasonic Blu-ray player, which handled the decoding.

The demo showed Alice in Wonderland, streaming at half resolution, compared with A Christmas Carol, at Full HD.

A start date for this service has not been set.

In the South Hall press room, Verizon is showing additional services: Flex View, a new feature of FiOS TV that allows customers to display content on a TV, online and on select mobile devices (Q4 availability); and a home control system, enabling users to control devices in the home using a TV, smartphone or the web (a pilot program begins in late January).

Technicolor brand RCA is showing something that is similar, but not quite, Google TV. The new RLC3291 TV is running Android 2.2 “Froyo” on a 32-inch HDTV (AND42LA45RQ). Version 3.1 of Android may be installed by the time the set launches later this year.

Wi-Fi, Ethernet and DNLA capability is built in and the company says an Android mobile phone could be used as a remote control. It is designed and manufactured by On Corp.

Pricing, full specifications and launch date were not available since the product is still a work-in-progress.

The Quality of Life Technology Foundry at Carnegie Mellon University is showing Lean&Zoom, a simple application aimed to reduce eye and posture problems caused by daily computer use. It takes advantage of a typically unutilized input device, the built-in camera, to automatically magnify a computer screen in response to a user’s body movement.

The camera calibrates by taking a picture of a user at their normal viewing distance, then another picture at their preferred “lean in” distance. After that, a lean forward will magnify any on-screen content, with a zoom ratio directly proportional to the extent of your lean. Pulling back will zoom it out, and regular functions like arrow-key navigation and mouse tracking continue to work no matter the degree of zoom. The demo felt surprisingly natural and almost obvious, like this should have been a part of computing all along.

Lean&Zoom officially launched only yesterday, but QoLT Foundry director Curt Stone said they’re speaking with companies about potential partnerships for Lean&Zoom in mobile devices, automotive navigation, and health and fitness.

Samsung and Comcast announced that Comcast’s Xfinity TV service would be available later this year on Samsung Smart TVs and the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Xfinity TV is developed to enable customers to browse, discover and sort video content, change the channel on a Samsung Smart TV in real time, program DVRs, watch streaming TV shows and movies On Demand directly on the tablet, and access that content across multiple devices.

Future development plans for the service include allowing a viewer to begin watching a movie on one CE device, then pausing the movie and resume watching it on a different device from the exact moment it was paused.