if ces was a japanese game show it would involve seeing how long someone could
stand on a pedestal while hundreds of tech products were hurled directly at
their eyes yep we're here in las vegas and while i have yet to actually see
anything in person we've already experienced a container ship sized
influx of tech news so we better get some pre-cess stories done with
before we are completely overtaken by the horde
the most interesting thing for me going to ces has to be samsung's mysterious
neon project which is called an artificial human my new favorite insult
of 2020. well some intrepid redditors scrubbed the project's website and found
a number of assets including a video indicating that neon is definitely some
sort of ai assistant with a realistic human looking visual component youtuber
good content tech was able to ascertain that fake humans seen in the video were
actually real human so it's unclear whether we're looking at
simple filmed footage of real people or computer generated animations based on
real people looks like we're going to have to ask ourselves whether or not we
want to put a face to google assistant or alexa or whether we prefer just to
interact with the cold disembodied voice instead i mean this is only a couple of
steps away from that black mirror episode where jon hamm traps that lady
in a smart home like a snow globe i i didn't watch that one it's bad it's bad
okay but what is ces if not a bunch of companies saying you know that black
mirror episode we're almost there there's lots of display news at the show
this year james already did a video of the ASUS rog swift 360 the first 360hz
gaming monitor and he did a fine job it's even got g-sync thank you james
samsung unveiled the odyssey g9 a 49-inch super ultra wide monitor for
gaming with a 240 hertz refresh rate and
a 1 000 r curvature rating which is arguably too high acer also joined the
club started by the hp omen and brought a 55 inch 4k gaming monitor to the table
but it's not a tv this is a tv an ak bezel-less model from
samsung to be exact as is tradition samsung and lg have chosen ces as their
battleground with both companies showing off a ton of 8k tvs but there are some
4k models in the mix too like this roll down model from lg last year it rolled
up and this year rolled down i'm in awe
lg and samsung will go head to head in the realm of smart fridges that can
identify the food inside of them using ai which aren't there more important
things to spend our ai points on that's how it works yep that's definitely how
it works limited amount of ai points yes riley oh you want to hear about the
laptops on display this year well dell's got a new xps 13 with a 16 by 10 display
and i'm really jacked about that one and a new latitude model with a built-in 5g
connectivity lenovo is showing off the new x1 carbon and yoga models with
privacy screens and a super thin and light gaming notebook called the legion
y40s which is designed to play nice with the company's first external GPU dock
called the boost station lenovo's also taking the wraps off of the first laptop
with the folding OLED display the thinkpad x1 fold samsung's galaxy flex
alpha does not actually flex despite the name it's got a qled non-foldable screen
and acer's concept d7 edsel easel
and acer's concept 7 easel is like a
more refined creator friendly version of the company's predator trident 900
convertible laptop with a swiveling display you should also expect to see
new laptops updated with processors from both AMD and Intel with team red making
a big push into mobile this year i can barely contain my excitement
i could have said that more excited i'm actually very stoked now it's time for
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quick bits indel has given the public a bit of a look at its ghost canyon neck
although calling it a knuck makes things a bit confusing because this thing is
large enough to fit a desktop graphics card and has replaceable desktop class
core i9 CPU it seems like you'll have to add your
own storage and RAM though so i guess that kind of counts as an up in my book
it also counts as a bizarrely incomplete
pre-built pc what's that you came to ces
for the robots hey me too buddy i'm so
glad to see the agility digital v2 is here and for sale using its power as a
package delivery for good and not for evil
lavot a little robot whose sole purpose appears to be to imitate a helpless
child is also back at cesa also
available as a real product now ricci
from poland robotics is the newcomer with an expressive head and modular and
very capable arms modular
modular arms like you can take them off that's freaky richie can do anything
with those babies what segway 9 bot has a few cool
rideables to show off including their air t15 which is partially powered by
the rider's kicks and the segway s-pod which looks like it's meant to either
make you feel like a giant baby in a stroller or like professor x oh
copyright i mean professor z he's got a love-hate relationship with
mr magnets there are a surprising number of
ai powered toothbrushes that see what why
from colgate plaqueless pro to the y brush a retainer looking thing
that apparently brushes your teeth for you in 10 seconds
and also oral biq which uses innovative algorithms to get you the perfect
brushing results in all 16 zones for
superior oral health that's real it also
got an innovation award and took six years to develop and i am moving on
right now but what i'm really excited for this ces
is the weird stuff the kubu debuted last
year as a fuzzy pillow with a wagging tail and now it's got a little sibling
the petite koobu sharmin is also here as a robot that
brings you toilet oh that's actually that sherman it brings you toilet paper
and has sensors that tell you how stinky your bathroom is and a porta potty that
has a built-in vr headset yeah yeah
that's what i like guys you've only scratched the surface of ces so make
sure you tune in every day this week we're doing five episodes hopefully
it'll make more sense than this one oh gotta go i've got a date with the
sherman robot in in
oh that's gross exciting yup yeah