Top 5 Tech Trends - CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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while i may not wear a fitness wearable we all know i'm not trendy anyway so
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that doesn't prevent fitness from being our first trend here at ces 2016. the
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fitbit blaze watch improves on their previous fitness watch the surge in a
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few ways it's got a color display their
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fit star program with three built-in workouts and
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animations showing you how to do them it's compatible with over 200 mobile
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devices and the battery will last for five days of actual use the sensoria
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athlete 2000 is a prototype workout suit that uses sensors to track body
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temperature fatigue balance impact force running cadence and more the whole suit
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is just a prototype but you can get a bundle that includes a top for men or
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sports bra for women a chest sensor and an anklet sensor called the fitness
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running system for 400 the under armour gemini 2 with speed
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form is a distance tracking shoe it's
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not gps based instead using accelerometers for accurate motion
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tracking and under armour says this is more accurate than wearing something on
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your wrist since the sensor is actually on your foot it transmits data via
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bluetooth and can actually store data without a smartphone for five workouts
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at a time and push to it later on the
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shoes are 130 dollars trend number two
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is smart home products and automation
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the lyric water freeze and warning detector from honeywell can be put
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anywhere where there could be a leak or a pipe freeze on a tub under the pipes
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of your house and will warn you with a push notification and email if the
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temperature drops below a certain threshold the samsung family hub smart
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fridge is actually more than just a tablet stuck to a fridge it's got a huge
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21 and a half inch touchscreen and lets you do all kinds of food related things
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you can order groceries you can look up recipes and it's got cameras inside so
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you can see what food you have while you're out at the store so you don't end
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up buying duplicates the somabar robotic bartender is kind of like a keurig for
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alcohol it's got three clear compartments that hold alcohol and
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mixers with for a total of 750 mils you
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tell the machine through the app what's in the compartments and it's got 300
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recipes built in or you can create your own you can even add bitters and the
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machine will flush itself out between uses so things will taste right it comes
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in at a pricey 429 dollars but that's
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certainly a lot cheaper than even a few nights out at the bar with friends so it
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might be a justifiable purchase it'll be available sometime in quarter two
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trend number three is display technology and this one's kind of a broad one but
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there's a lot going on and panasonic is showing off transparent displays that
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look like part of a living room curio slash display cabinet so it's
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essentially a window and a display in one you can also use it as both for
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example if you just want it to display weather info or sport scores in one spot
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and be able to see through the rest of it speaking of seeing through the rest
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of it bmw was showing off a concept
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motorbike helmet with an augmented reality heads-up display that sits right
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in front of the rider so as not to distract him or her
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and panasonic lg and samsung are all starting to incorporate HDR or high
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dynamic range technology into their higher end tvs now this doesn't look
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like it's just a gimmick like the bad HDR capture in some smartphones and
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there is even an industry-wide certification process in order to be
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certified what HDR means is they can reproduce more colors and more accurate
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colors than most other displays
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which leads us to oleds no longer being
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only present in smartphones and
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televisions no my friends dell's got a desktop monitor and lenovo has a
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notebook both of which feature OLED displays that hopefully address the
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issue with oleds and burn in on static images something that can be an issue
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with things like the taskbar tech trend number four is drones where
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we're starting to see drones capable of doing more than just kind of awkwardly
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flying around and recording video the ehang 184 can actually carry a freaking
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person as long as they're brave enough to get into it the parrot disco ditches
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the traditional quadcopter look and instead has wings like an airplane did i
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mention it's capable of going 50 miles per hour and the unique typhoon h has an
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Intel realsense camera built in so it can avoid colliding with objects without
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any user input which brings us to our
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final trend car technology cars without
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mirrors bmw did this with their i8
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concept which was a huge hit at ces it
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uses several extremely low latency cameras and a high resolution screen
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instead of a rear view mirror with wing quote-unquote mirrors with cameras on
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them to give you a real-time look behind and to the sides of the car with much
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better viewing angles than traditional mirrors and even glancing over your
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shoulder google also looks like they're gonna have some competition in the autonomous
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car market with ford showing off a self-driving focus that they hope to
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price low enough to be accessible to the masses
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NVIDIA also showed off its NVIDIA drive px2 an updated version of the original
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drive released last year it's the computer that could control your first
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self-driving car it's as powerful as 150
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macbook pros or six tight nexus and it's even liquid cooled it also uses
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cloud-based deep machine learning to improve volvo has already adopted the
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