you know what they say what happens in vegas stays in vegas well not on my
watch because all the stuff that's happening in
in vegas is not going to stay there i'm going to tell you about it
also you might notice we're in the hallway of our hotel because it's it's
nighttime and i'm scared of the dark
now ces proper hasn't started yet but a bunch of pre-ces news came out already
so let's get started samsung has kicked off the product announcements with three
new monitors and i'll talk about them in order from least to most interesting to
me the first is the ur59c a 32-inch
curved 4k with a 2500 to 1 contrast
ratio and support for up to 1 billion colors that's a lot but i thought we
were done with curved 16x9 monitors apparently we're not the second is the
crg9 a curved 49-inch super ultra wide display with a resolution of
5120x1440 aka a 32 by 9 aspect ratio and
a 120 hertz refresh rate that's also compatible with HDR 10 and freesync 2.
and the third is the space monitor wow this one's actually got a name and not
just a numerical designation that's nice and it's so called because it can fold
flat against the wall to reclaim more desk space or lean forward to get closer
to your eyeballs the screen can even rest on the desk which would be cool as
a touch screen surface studio type display but i haven't seen anything
about it having a touch screen but who knows samsung has a whole week left
maybe they can add it before friday next up cars they're shaping up
next up cars they're shaping up to be a big trend at this year's ces and hyundai
and kia are contributing to that with what they call future technology the
electric vehicle wireless charging system and automated valet parking
system or tv savs
for short basically the system would allow a car owner to use a phone app to
send their autonomous car to a valet garage when they arrive at a destination
that has a valet garage not only that but the car
would then find a wireless charging spot for electric vehicles notify the owner
when the car is at full charge and then re-park itself in a regular parking spot
until such a time that the owner calls it back again this may seem a little
far-fetched but it's not actually the weirdest car related thing at ces or
even from kia the company also has a prototype system called the real-time
emotion adaptive driving system or read
a much better algorithm an algorithm much better acronym the read system
adapts a vehicle's interior to the passenger's emotional state using
sensors to detect facial expressions heart rate and bioelectrical activity it
then can vibrate the seats to match the music provide massages and make you
forget all about that horrible press conference you had to attend just now at
ces and AMD is looking to have a bigger
presence in the laptop market and to that end has announced its new lineup of
2nd gen mobile ryzen processors the chips are reportedly not based on zen 2
cores but there are now quad-core models paired with built-in vega graphics and
the higher-end models sport a new h designation indicating a boost in power
to take on Intel's chips indeed AMD claims their new chips will give Intel's
competing processors a run for their money in microsoft office and photoshop
as well as gaming using the built-in graphics AMD's chips will be found in a
number of laptops this coming year from ASUS dell hp lenovo and more but the
other big news is that AMD chips will be in chromebooks for the first time
well i mean it's big news for for AMD
chromebooks guys AMD's and chromebooks
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quick bits alexa and google assistant are being
baked into everything from headphones to refrigerators so why should your
bathroom get ignored that's right kohler is on the same page they're
showing off a smart bathroom setup featuring a smart mirror smart bathtub
and yep the nume 2.0 intelligent toilet so you
can say alexa flush my dookie
but why stop at smart toilets whirlpool has announced it will be adding wear os
smart watch support for its existing smart appliances so you can control your
oven or laundry machine from your wrist
that's kind of dumb but actually kind of cool samsung has
begun rolling out its exynos auto v9 system on a chip the company's first
chip intended solely for vehicles it's got eight ARM cortex a76 cores with
three dedicated sets of maui g76 gpus to
drive various displays around a vehicle which is fitting since the processor
will appear in audi's vehicles including the ones with these
those electronic side view mirrors which are very necessary
to say the red hydrogen one was an underwhelming phone when it came out
would be an understatement but red is hoping the new lithium 3d camera rig for
the phone will bring you back up to being just weld
the rig uses the hydrogen one as its controller rather than a headset i mean
who knows maybe this will actually make the phone useful
for like three people
that was that was rude and 5g might not be here yet but d-link
is looking to the future with the announcement of the 5g nr home router
rather than relying on a coaxial or network plug the router will pick up a
5g mobile connection and distribute it in a home through wi-fi which means yes
your router will have a sim card it won't arrive until the second half of
2019 but if it means skipping the cable installation to upgrade networks it
might be worth it i mean also it kind of looks like it's giving you a high five and that's kind of cool
all right that's it for the first of this week's five special ces edition
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what is this christmas
i hope not yeah no it's not that would mean something is seriously
wrong with the space time continuum anyways
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