Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “We found it! the BEST of CES 2024”.
So, nearly every year, for the last few decades, the tech world has descended on Las Vegas to get a firsthand look at the latest and greatest products. Looking to be the next big thing. For the upcoming year, hundreds of thousands of products have risen. On the show floor and also Fallen completely flat, so let me tell you some stories from somebody. Who’S been on the show floor for 13 years and also show you some of the coolest stuff they’ve got here now and also revisit how some of the stuff years past actually ended.
Up doing TVs and CS have been best friends for a really long time. Uh. This is where we saw some of the newest Technologies are now commonplace. First time we saw OLED mini, LED, cutie LED all the technology we saw debut here at CES and ser of keeping with that Trend.
Translucent is like now a thing, so look. What LG is doing? It is a translucent box. Essentially, that is a TV, and if you look at it, it looks kind of like strange right like we can see through it, there’s a film that can come up to make it look like a regular TV, but when it’s down it kind of gives, like a Holographic 3d effect, which is technology, we’ve seen a ton of at CES in years past. I can’t tell you how many years companies tried to make 3D technology a thing uh, I’m not sure if transluc technolog is going to go that same way, but it certainly is incredible to see and like speaking of TVs, one company, that’s kind of synonymous with TVs Is Roku so they didn’t debut here, but they did debut their Streaming Stick uh here at CES, 2012, and obviously you know that did pretty well for them uh. They also showed the first iteration of Roku TV uh. Here at CF. I kind of got an early look and honestly, I kind of blew off what Roku was doing for a very long time and then they started to get really good, really efficient, sorry to see them everywhere.
So listen! I was wrong about Roku. I apologize. Probably a few things in this list: I’m going be wrong about two in about 10 years uh, but it’s really cool to see the evolution of a company like Roku. Although I will say after all those years, roku’s UI still looks almost idal. So while Roku was a success, sometimes things don’t always work out.
Uh Razer has been really ambiti, showing off some crazy prototypes at CES. In years past, they showed off one called project Valerie, it kind of solves the problem of what, if I want to work on a laptop or game on a laptop, but I also want an ultra wide monitor what they did was. It was a laptop with three separate screens. I saw it, I tried it, it worked really well, but then it was gone from existence.
I doubt we’ll ever see it, but another kind of cool use of CES is a place to kind of showcase some technology, even if it’s really never destined to come out. So you can’t really have a best of CES list. Without talking about smart lights, they came on to the scene fast. They have stayed strong and sort of the ruler of a whole smart light.
Space is actually this video sponsored goie, whose lights we have in the studio whose lights I have in my house and whose lights I am itching to put in my backyard, and they are bringing it this year, like they tend to do every year. First of all, their booth looks pretty epic uh so this year, it’s all about AI, there’s, also a ton of devices now that support matter so walking through the whole GOI Booth. First of all, you can customize pretty much everything outdoor light with AI was really cool. So they have some steps, as you walk up the steps, the lights change. I thought that was really awesome, also they’re using AI with an assistant, so you can sort of set the mood instead of having to go in and say I want the blue hues up and red Hues down, you’re going to say I’m watching a Laker game, I’m Watching sports or I’m watching an action movie and automatically set things for you, uh. We still have in our studio the TV lights that got updated this year as well, some cool scenes for action shots or, if you’re, watching a a movie last, got a chance to check out what was doing for gaming uh this year. They are using Ai and adding HDMI Mi. I 2.1 support So support games with up to 8K resolution.
That is a big update uh to an already awesome setup. Goi is the best name in light. They bring power, they bring efficiency, they bring Ai and functionality. Most importantly, they bring all of that at a really affordable price.
If you want to check out anything that I talked about here or a ton more products, of course, you got a link down below taking up a huge portion of the show for pretty much every year is like tech for your house. How can tech make your life easier? A lot of ways make it like way: more complicated years, past used to be like cameras and smart locks, and that kind of thing, but like everything this year, it’s like ai, ai, ai and then also Tech that can like feed your dogs. So there’s a lot of AI optimize things to go about your house. We got things you’d expect we got robot vacuums, robot, mops, um, robot bird feeders.
We got AI built into toasters, pans appliances, kind of AI built in to absolutely everything now kind of permeating all aspects of your house. This category, I think, has changed the most over the years. It went from like let’s just throw a tech into everything. To now.
Let throw Ai and Tech into everything and if there’s one area, I think there’s a lot of room for growth. It’S here probably one of the biggest success stories here like in the history uh of CES is ring uh fun fact they were actually based. In the same building as the original TechnoBuffalo office, we got to know those guys pretty well um. Obviously you know what ring does they were bought by Amazon, but long before that they had an idea to make a doorbell smart, but, like all small business, it was hard to get financing when my favorite ring memory was a couple years ago that an event where First of all, I got to meet Shaq which, as a Laker fan, I’m still excited about, but I and when I introduced myself to him, I said hi.
My name is John. My screen name is John for Lakers. I love you so much. He looked at me dead in the eyes I mean down at me.
I was like, I know you, and that was probably one of the happiest moments um of my life. It was a really cool experience, but but ring is definitely one of the biggest success stories. Really in the history of CES in recent years, especially after Microsoft stopped giving the Keynotes here at CF sort of big product announcement stopped cars have taken over a big portion of Cs, and we have seen over the years some insane Concepts things that are never going To hit the road and some that surprisingly, did, I remember a few years ago being able to see the Fisker ocean at a very small booth and clearly thinking that’s never going to hit the road. Most recently, I think surprising was when Sony rolled out a car that nobody saw coming and it appears actually going to be a real thing.
So it’s called Aila and they’re partnering with Honda to actually bring this out to Market and they brought it out on stage being powered by a PlayStation controler. Now I doubt that’s ever going to be a thing that you would ever do uh, but seeing Sony find a partner and get into the auto space kind of symbolize that everybody’s kind of moving into cars. But there are still a ton of cars is happening here, but before they end up in the graveyard of Automotive History, you second, I can say I saw them. Speaking of the one I saw in 2015.
Actually, the Panasonic Booth of all places, the original model X concept was here and obviously see a lot of model X on the road now back 2015, that was nuts to see in person. You can tell it’s a concept: it had the old sort of nose cone at the model S initially had, but seeing those Falcon Wing doors for the first time in person was awesome and look at the car see a lot of this stuff, never actually made it To production, but again CS is a place where a lot of Technology makes ding. The show has changed over the past 13 years, as have I uh those first few years here were some of my greatest memories of all in Tech I mean filming on my own and editing 15 20 videos Almost per day. This is the first place to actually I got to have an experience.
El eeve CS always has a special place in in my heart. It’S where I get a chance to not only see friends, relatest technology and somebody who lives and breathes the stuff CES over the past almost decade and a half, it’s kind of become a part of me. .