The COOLEST Tech at CES 2019!
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·2019-05-06
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it is day three of techlink's coverage of ces but only day two
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of ces because although everyone's here by monday
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it's vegas you know what are you gonna do today we're
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talking about the coolest stuff i've seen at ces and that we haven't talked
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about already on TechLinked okay ready go at Intel's press conference the
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company laid out quite a few announcements their ice lake chips based
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on the 10 nanometer process will be the company's first to feature the new sunny
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cove architecture gen 11 integrated graphics native Thunderbolt 3 and wi-fi
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6 support and dl boost ice lake cpus are coming by the
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end of the year but perhaps the most interesting information we got from
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Intel was about code name lakefield which is what they're calling their
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modular chips that use foveros 3d stacking it's not faveros
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for example lakefield processors would use large sunny cove cores in
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combination with smaller atom cores which means it would be able to operate
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either at very low power for efficient use or pump things up for heavy
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workloads those modular cpus are put in a stack with dram chips which allows
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Intel to make the motherboard extremely small and can be scaled for applications
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all the way up from tiny low power devices to full desktop pcs now Intel
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also briefly mentioned project athena which they're saying is an Intel driven
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initiative to foster innovation across the entire pc ecosystem similar to what
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they did with the ultrabook branding they didn't say anything else
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specifically but if you're going to give vague promises about allegedly industry
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shattering projects ces is the place to do it now the hype
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around vr has died down for sure but htc had a couple of interesting
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announcements to make about their vive line of headsets the vive pro i adds eye
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tracking and foveated rendering to the regular vive pro which should allow pcs
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to only render the parts of a vr scene that the user is looking at increasing
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performance and hopefully making it so that you don't need to have a super
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expensive pc to enjoy yourself which is always a good thing htc also teased the
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htc cosmog cosmoch
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dennis it's that's not it the htc cosmos
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which will apparently be fully wireless but unlike the quest will still be
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intended for home use with a pc or
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with a smartphone the video showed a smartphone it was
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very confusing for everybody like i said it was just the tease but it did have a
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flashy video very ces and htc gave a
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peek at the vive reality system which looks kind of like a playstation home
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for the vive but it could also be a tracking system that would allow the
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vive to break free of being shackled to valve's steamvr tracking which is
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exciting as anyone who's ever been shackled to something could understand
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hey and check this out it's not a functioning product but
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i think it's super cool bell that's the aircraft company not the canadian isp is
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showing off a scale model of the nexus a vertical takeoff and landing capable
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vehicle that will be used for uber's air taxi service it's got five seats and
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will run on a hybrid electric engine with six tilting ducted rotors
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there's not much room around ces as large as ces is there's not much room
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like i said it's a scale model so it doesn't actually fly yet but bell says
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it will have the nexus in operation by the mid-2020s and uber plans to have its
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air taxi service up and running by 2023 so
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futuristic vehicles like this one may become common more quickly than you
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think see that see that dennis sure i did a little bit
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of vague promising there it's the ces spirit in me and it's also time for
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quick bits brought to you by sea sonic now first off i've got to clarify
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something in the earlier sponsor spots i said seasonic has been making powerful
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and efficient power supplies since the 1980s
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so for those of you that weren't convinced yeah seasonic has been doing this for two more years than you thought
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big mistake check them out at the link below on to the quick bits everybody
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hp has shown off the world's first gaming laptop with a 240hz display but
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that high refresh rate comes with some drawbacks the hp omen 15 has a 15 point
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inch 1080p tn panel with no g-sync but
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it's powered by an rtx 2070 max q and an Intel 8th gen core i7 it's launching
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next month so you don't have long to wait if 120 frames just aren't good
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enough hey look it's that folding phone from the company no one's heard of yet
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before now the grainy video we all saw of the royal flex pie made this thing
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look kind of sketchy but in person it looks a little better because royal
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developed this thing on its own it doesn't have google's software optimizations that are coming out for
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folding phones but it seems to do okay by itself a company called unreal is
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looking to one-up microsoft's hololens and the magic leap by making augmented
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reality glasses that don't look like a giant computer strapped to your head
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which always always good dennis the n-real light glasses have 1080p laser
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projectors that display images at 60fps with a 52 degree field of view better
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than the magic leaps but like the magic leaf it has a separate box for
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processing a side benefit that i'm surprised they haven't mentioned is that
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they make you look like a straight baller while you wear them dude
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and in the future straight ballers will get their snacks and drinks from robot
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butlers or that's what ubtech thinks anyway they're showing off the walker
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which can do everything from fetching you treats to opening doors for you and
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dancing obviously it's early days but the fact that walker can do that much is
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amazing i mean i think i even saw him at the party last night were you there dude
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walker was going ham walker was bonkers and speaking of
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walkers and a story that makes my inner star wars nerd get much too excited
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hyundai has given a look at a real-life walker like a at-80 thing except not as
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big the hyundai elevate is a prototype of a vehicle that would be able to go
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truly off-road by extending four legs locking its wheels in place and climbing
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over whatever is in its path it would be very useful for emergency crews
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accessing hard to reach places or for empires attacking snow-covered rebel
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bases
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yeah you tried to duck at least i mean come
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on i know it's a prototype but like this is really exciting this is really
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cool dennis have you seen it it's a walking car
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cool oh all right that's it for this episode of
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coolest stuff at ces TechLinked we're not gonna keep that name it's too
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