Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Best Tech From CES 2020″.
A cute rolling robot that follows you around an alien supercar that you’re never gon na be able to buy and tech for everything. From your wrist to your lap., Hey, it must be CES. (, upbeat, music, ) CES might stand for Consumer Electronics Show. But as someone on twitter said to me “, Maybe the better title for 2020 is Concept Expo Show.”.
That’S because of all the cool things I saw in Las Vegas this year, a little less that half of them might never come out at all.. The most egregious example of that is the Mercedes VISION. Avtr Mercedes actually flew me out to CES this year specifically to see this, but understand that this is what’s known as a show car or a concept car.
It’S never coming to market, and that’s not the point. The point is to provide a vessel that a manufacturer can use to explore, futuristic concepts and, of course, push a marketing message. In this case.
Mercedes wants everyone to know it’s thinking about the future. Naturally the wheels, let it crab walk side ways. The entire console is a display and instead of a steering wheel and buttons, you control the car using a haptic, hump and air gestures with your hands, but, more importantly, Mercedes seems to want everyone to know. It’S thinking about environmental impact.. Hmm wonder why The car is names after the film Avatar and James Cameron was actually on stage here in Vegas to talk about it, and while the parallels to the message of that film are maybe, as on the nose as the message itself, there are also more Practical advances like organic battery technology made from recyclable materials and I’m sure we’ll see some of the cockpit interface concepts come to production cars in the coming years as well. Mostly though, I’m just here for the scales. Car companies aren’t the only ones getting in on the concept fun, though this next one does have automotive DNA.
Oneplus was here showing off it’s Concept, One smartphone, it’s basically a redressed. Oneplus 7, Pro with the same papaya leather McLaren uses in it’s cars. It’S also got a new gold, PVD coating and camera lenses that hide away when you’re, not using them.. I don’t think it’s a big deal to see exposed camera lenses, but the science of how the company achieved it is cool.. There’S a special electrochromic glass placed over the camera array glass that changes it’s opacity when an electric current is passed through it. Besides looks there’s one practical advantage here: the glass can act as an ND filter, which is a piece of camera gear that helps when you’re shooting outside in harsh sunlight and it’s one of the remaining photo features that hasn’t yet come over to smartphones in a big Way so that’s really cool Oneplus says it has no plans to release this phone, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see this E-C glass coming to a future model.. This footage is courtesy, Android Central check out their full video on the phone to learn more. And to round out the list of things that might never get made.
This is Ballie and it’s meant to help out around the house, while it rolls around. Samsung says that it can communicate with your other appliances. So if Ballie notices a mess on the floor, it can send your robot vacuum cleaner to come, take care of it or turn on the outside light. If it hears you coming home honestly, all that stuff sounds way too far out to me.
You’D need compatible tech and all that. But it’s the social angle that interests me. The most. Ballie responds to voice commands.
It has it’s own electric voice of sorts and it can follow you around.. Yes, like all the poor, dead or dying social robots that came before it. Ballie’S usefulness is limited.
It might never see the light of day, but if it does come to market having a company the size of Samsung behind it might ensure it doesn’t meet the same sad fate as yeah Jibo. I mean, if Sony can make it work with Aibo, then why can’t We have our own little BB-8 around the house right, Okay. So what is coming to market from this circus? Well, Lenovo’s, Thinkpad, X1 Fold might look too futuristic to exist, but it is absolutely coming out later in the year..
I covered this in depth in a dedicated video check out the channel for it, and if you missed it, please subscribe so you don’t miss the full review.. But what I didn’t know when I made that video is that I would give it my best. In-Show award. ( applause, ), Look, I’ve said it a million times. I think foldable screens are the future. I bought a Galaxy Fold and it’s been my trade show phone this year and the X1 Fold made me realize that that foldable future might be even more useful on PCs., Oh speaking, of folding phones, though TCL was on site with a prototype to demo.
The company stressed to me that it won’t be building this particular model, but I am expecting a foldable of some kind from TCL at some point, stay tuned.. We saw other more practical laptops here, Asus showcased, a smaller version of that ZenBook Pro Duo. I fell for back in the summer, LG brought it’s latest generation of gram, laptops and they’re, just as durable and impossibly light weight as ever and Samsung showcased the most exciting Chromebook I’ve seen in a while., The Chromebook Pixel looks so similar to the Google Pixelbook from 2017, that I’m basically just gon na call it a sequel and, like all great sequels, it packs some awesome improvements.. The 4K OLED display shockingly beautiful, the Micro SD card slot very useful tenth generation Intel processor up to a terabyte of storage and yeah.
The red option is somehow even more striking in person. The problem. It’S gon na be pricey when it drops sometime in the first quarter, it’ll start at 999.
And finishing off with another familiar name. The Fossil group was here with updates for almost all of it’s smart watches.. Some of these are just style upgrades like the new color ways of Fossil Sport and new casing options on Hybrid HR..
Others are genuinely new models like the Skagen Falster 3, which updates one of the most beautiful smartwatches of 2018, with the new specs common to all Fossil Gen 5 smartwatches. There’s also a new Diesel On Fadelite. I cannot wait to get a hold of a transparent casing and band and there’s a new Gen 5 companion for the Carlyle called the Garrett. And yes, with the exception of the Hybrid HR, these all run Google’s WearOS for better or worse.. I’M gon na try and get a hold of some of these for a full review. Let me know in the comments which ones you’d most like to see me take for a test.
Drive. Was there more to see at CES god so much from the Westworld dinner to Impossible’s new meatless pork to the Future Tech Awards. It was an utter avalanche of tech and it was a lot of fun.. If you wan na, read more about it check out the coverage from my friends at iMore and Windows, Central and if you want to hear us talk about it, for I don’t know, eight hours listen to the Android Central podcast.
I will link all of that in the description. Below. Disclosure MrMobile was flown to Las Vegas for CES by Mercedes, but the company had no editorial input into my coverage and they did not receive a copy in advance of publication they’re, seeing it for the first time right alongside you.. Please subscribe to theMrMobile on YouTube. If you’d like to see more videos like this, be sure to follow me on Instagram to see a lot more of the tech from the show that I didn’t fit into this video and a lot of behind the scenes, craziness as well and stay tuned for the Next big tech show coming just next month, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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