- Welcome to CES 2024.
Let's find some cool stuff.
(upbeat music)
First up, we have this, the Omen Transcend 14.
I do wanna give a shout out to the Omen team
for sponsoring this video.
So what really drew me to this laptop is the fact
that it is thin and light while still having
some real gaming performance.
We're talking about a laptop that weighs 1.6 kilos
and comes in at 17.9 millimeters thin,
which is very impressive considering that it's outfitted
with some proper specs, including up to an RTX 4070
and an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H.
So there are a few things that are going
for this Omen, one of which is actually the port selection.
It actually uses 140-watt USB-C charger, and that's it.
So you don't have to deal with a giant bulky power brick,
and on top of that, you also have,
what I would say is a good input experience.
This keyboard is really, really unique.
(keys clacking)
So the keyboard feel is good, but I love the RGB.
The fact that you've got the pudding-style key caps,
I think, adds a lot to the aesthetic of this laptop.
Now, it does come in a couple of colors.
You can get it in both white as well as black.
I'm partial to the white colorway
because I think to me this really sort of stands out.
That combined with the display means
that you're getting a good gaming experience.
So it is a 2.8K panel.
You got up to 120 hertz refresh rate, and it is an OLED.
I'm so happy. (claps)
2024 really does feel like the year of OLED.
So we're seeing 'em on laptop, seeing on gaming displays,
and at this point it's almost like if you don't have
an OLED, what are you doing?
This laptop is also going to be available
with the Cloud III headset bundle.
So the neat part about this is that it actually has
the dongle for the headset built in,
and this is actually a software update
that's gonna be coming to all
of the Cloud III headsets later this year.
Now, it's a good combination because this is
a very portable, easy to use gaming setup.
There's a lot going for this Omen.
I gotta say.
So if you're interested, make sure
to subscribe to the channel (bell chiming)
and stay tuned because I'll be taking
a much closer look at this a little bit later
on once I get myself a full retail sample.
So this will be going on sale.
You actually can do pre-orders now,
and I'll have a link in the description for that.
This will be going on sale a little bit later
in January, early February,
and again, it starts at 1,499,
but as far as a thin and light gaming laptop
that is a very much a good daily driver,
this Omen Transcend 14 looks very, very impressive.
Last year at CES, I was able
to take a look at LG's transparent OLED.
This time around, not only does the tech improve,
but they've also got it ready to go on sale.
It is very loud in here.
They have an entire display full of the OLED TVs.
The way this works is that not only do you have
the transparent OLED, but when you're ready to watch TV
or something, there's a screen that rolls around the back,
which gives you pretty much
the exact same experience as a traditional OLED,
but when you wanna see through it, that can roll up,
and it is entirely transparent.
The main thing I notice here is
that it seems like it's
a much more refined version of the tech.
Last year it was really neat,
but it felt more like a tech demo.
This, essentially, short of the price,
feels like there's no real downside to it.
I mean, that just looks like a regular OLED,
but look how great it looks with the transparency as well.
This is incredibly cool, the level of fidelity
that you're able to get here.
I'm surprised by how bright it is, and here we go.
So this is the actual screen rolling up.
So there you go.
So now with the actual screen rolled up in the background,
essentially you've got no downside
compared to a traditional OLED.
It is really cool, and just staring right
in front of it, very clean.
(air whooshing)
There's a lot of stuff here at the ASUS booth, like always,
but a couple of highlights include this, the AirVision M1.
So I got to spend some time with it,
and you've probably seen some items such
as like the XREAL and whatnot.
They're essentially displays that go on your eyes.
So it does AR, but really it's meant more so
as like a personal display that you can,
you know, sort of wear in a glasses form.
What's cool about this one is it runs
a full thousand nits,
and that plus the 1080P resolution means that,
in my opinion, it's actually pretty usable.
My problem with some of the other options
that are out there is just, they're too dim
to be all that practical, but talk about bright.
Come with me.
So someone's standing in front of it right now.
I found the coolest monitor at all of CES,
the ROG Swift OLED.
This is a 27-inch, 1440P OLED
that has not only 1,300 nits of brightness, but 480 hertz.
That's right, 480 frames per second,
is 450 frames per second more than I usually can see.
Wait, what?
- [Ken] What? No. That, what?
What? - Yeah, I have 30 hertz eyes.
That's what I said.
I'm just gonna go with it.
So obviously in a YouTube video
you can't see the difference here,
but they've got the screen test going,
We've got 60, 120, 240.
240 looks great,
but the thing with the 480 hertz,
because obviously you have to keep in mind
that running a game at that kind
of frame rate is very difficult,
but at that kind of level, not only do you get the fluidity,
but you get the motion stability, right?
So like as I look at the, like, crispness of the images
as they fly by, it is crystal, crystal clear,
and it's also incredibly bright.
So this will be going on sale for a little bit.
It's going to be expensive, as you would expect,
but talk about like the ultimate gaming display,
OLED, bright, insanely high refresh rate.
I saw this, and I just tunnel vision, man, tunnel vision.
There's also the ROG Phone 8.
So this is a big step forward for the ROG Phone,
mostly because it no longer looks like a gaming behemoth.
So they've slimmed and trimmed it down significantly
while still keeping the huge battery and the great cooling,
and I'm excited to actually spend some time with it
because between the ROG Phone and the Zenfone,
Asus are getting some stuff going,
there were some rumors not
that long ago they were maybe killing
off the Zenfone entirely, but instead,
we're seeing is some of the best phones they've made
in a long time.
(air whooshing) This is Clicks.
It is a physical keyboard for the iPhone,
co-founded by my good buddy, Mr. Mobile,
AKA. Michael Fisher.
You've actually got a product.
- I do.
- You stopped making videos for five minutes
and actually made something.
- For five minutes.
I'll be back to making videos tomorrow,
don't worry. (Austin laughing)
- But today I have a product.
It's called Clicks.
It is a full QWERTY keyboard.
There's 36 keys, polycarbonate row
of these on a liquid silicone case.
- Can I just say that the yellow
was absolutely the right call?
- Thank you.
- Where did this idea come from?
Because I'll be honest.
I haven't used a physical keyboard
on a phone in a long time.
- A number of years.
- (laughs) It's been a little bit.
It's been a little bit.
Where did you even come up with this idea?
- Here's the thing.
We had to throw away keys
for the smartphone to evolve, 17 years ago.
Like, Steve Jobs was right, right?
We're not trying to turn back the clock
because everyone loves their phone.
It's great.
The thing is, when we threw away all of the buttons,
we threw away a lot of utility that comes with them,
but it is a much more different, much more satisfying,
I will say, to be a little pretentious,
much more human experience.
- [Austin] Yeah.
- To type on physical keys than it is to tap on glass.
- [Austin] So you've got yourself
not only a backlit keyboard,
but on top of that, it integrates seamlessly.
So there's no need for an extra battery.
You still have MagSafe pass-through,
but the major advantage is giving you that tactile feedback
and getting back the screen real estate.
- Not gonna be for everybody.
The people who miss it will definitely appreciate this,
and the people who've never tried it, I hope,
some of them realize what I'm talking about.
- [Austin] So right now it's only for iPhone, right?
- Correct, only for iPhone 14 Pro, 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max,
but it is not gonna stop there.
We didn't just build a product.
We built a company.
So this will be the first of many.
- [Austin] I would love
to see the Z Flip version of this. (laughs)
- I would as well.
I'm not allowed to talk.
Don't make me do, because there's a lot
of cool ideas I want to do.
- Gotta say, man, this is the kind of stuff
that I love at CES, the stuff that you don't expect.
It's not always a big shiny laptop or something.
Sometimes these smaller, neater, cooler things
are what really leaves a lasting impression.
Good job, man.
- Thank you, buddy.
- Thank you for taking the time.
- You're in my best at CES video now.
- (gasps) Thank you.
(Austin laughing) (Michael laughing)
(air whooshing)
- CES has been good this year
because there's been a lot of tech
and a lot of mature tech.
Stuff like OLED is everywhere, transparent OLED,
but on top of that, there's a good variety
of actually practical, real AI demos.
If you wanna see more, on top of the videos
that we've already done, which I'll have linked,
but we also have a Denki video, which Ken has made,
and oh, This Is video that Matt and I made.
So much to watch, so much to see.
Thank you very much for watching this video, though.
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I am gonna take a nap, finally.