Hey everybody its Lon Seidman, and we are back for dispatch number two from CES
2018 and we are in my favorite place right now which is
Eureka Park
And it's called Eureka because that's what you say when you find something you've been looking for and we're looking for hidden gems today
Which we're going to explore before we do that though we got a couple things to talk about the first is our CES
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We visited Lenovo at their suite, and they had a bunch of things that were on embargo from different days
I didn't want to screw it up
So I just figured I'd wait till today to tell you about all the things that I saw
so we're going to start first with the
Lenovo mix 630 and that is going to be something that we shot yesterday
So take a look throughout the Lenovo suite
And they have this really neat computer here called the mix 630 and it is a Windows Device
It looks a lot like there are other mixed devices
But it is thinner, but this one is powered by a Qualcomm processor not an Intel processor
But it is running Windows 10, and it's going to give you more
functionality than we might have seen with
Some of the other versions of Windows in the past that ran on some of these lower end mobile processors. There's going to be
Compatibility with most of the apps that are on the Windows Store
So you should be able to find things to run on this that are not just limited to this platform
And there's also some degree of compatibility with Intel based applications as well
But those might run a little slower the cool thing though is that you get about 20 hours of battery life
They say out of this tablet
which is much more than what you would get out of a
Intel tablet performance may not be as fast perhaps as a you know a Celeron or a I-5 or something
But if you're looking for a good battery life and the ability to run some of your Windows apps these Qualcomm based Windows devices might
Be something to look at and we're going to be taking a look at one when it comes out
And they also had two really interesting things involving virtual reality, but accessible virtual reality. It's their Mirage system
There's a camera and a new all in one headset display
Let's take a look at that
So we're here at the
Lenovo suite with some stuff that they are announcing that might be of interest to some VR fans out there
This is a standalone VR
Headset called The Mirage Solo and what it integrates is essentially Google daydream, which you may have heard of before
Which is where was there still is this device that works with your mobile phone
This one is self-contained so you get a pretty powerful little mobile
Device inside of this headset that gives you a really decent VR experience
We tried it a little bit earlier
And I was pretty impressed with it actually because this headset here is designed for what is providing imagery to your eyes
So there's no real adjustment to make on it. It's got a cool remote control on here, so you can navigate
Some things with inside the interface and it's pretty lightweight also, but again
self-contained really cool stuff you can even walk around it has the ability for you to
Look at things closer if you want to get up close with some. Item. You're
Seeing in the virtual world and that I thought was pretty cool
So we're gonna look at this hopefully in a few months when it's released no pricing on this yet the other cool thing
They've got here is the Mirage camera and what this is is a 180?
3D camera hence the two lenses on the front one of the things they told me is that
360 video is out there
But from what Google's seeing from some of their research and data that most people are not really looking all around
They're kind of following the main action of the scene so what you do is you to set this camera up
There's no viewfinder on it because it sees everything in front of it
And it gives you a wide field of view in 3d that you can still look around with when you're in a VR
headset like this Mirage Solo or other some other headset
That's compatible with YouTube so
Really impressive actually we were really kind of having a good time playing around with this and this might be a little more approachable for
people trying to get into
some of the
VR video
Stuff and the other thing to keep in mind with this is that because it's shooting in 3D you get 3D when you're watching it
Versus 360 which does give you
360 degrees of a view you just don't get the 3D with those you do get it here
And we also got a look at the Lenovo smart display
And this is a Google home device with a screen
And I would compare this to the the Alexa device we looked at a little while ago
The echo look which had the alekos show, I'm sorry the echo show that had a screen
And you could do other Alexa commands with it and just like the echo device this does not have apps that you can install
It's completely driven by the voice assistant, but it looks nice
It's got a nice day court to it in fact one of the ones that we looked at there was
Having a nice bamboo backing to it and it can do all the things that you do with your Google home device
But get some visual feedback as well along with some limited web browsing based on some of the queries that you're making so it's not
an Android device in the sense that you can install apps on it it might be running Android in the background on it, but
Relatively locked down but pretty cool thing. There's a ten inch and a eight inch version the 10 inch is 249 the 8 inch is
189 and they also had a thunderbolt dock with an integrated GPU a gtx
1050 you're not gonna get much more than that due to thermal limitations
but it was really cool to see a
GPU integrated into such a very small package oak to get one of these in to test it as well
So that's what we saw at
Lenovo, and now we're going to go walk around this place
We've got about
Two and a half actually three and a half or four hours to do this
And we're going to find as much as we can that I find unique and interesting and who knows maybe one of these companies will
Be the next big thing
Let's go find them, so this is the Explorer touch
And it's from a company called tap to you tap of course being haptic feedback and this display
technology will create friction on the screen
In response to your finger moving across it and what's cool is as I'm petting this virtual iguana here
I'm feeling a little bump as my finger moves across on each of his ridges, and this is not like a
Vibration motor or some kind of haptic motor, it's changing the screen here
It's putting some
minut vibrations in that create friction as my finger moves across so probably would be
Less power consuming than a haptic motor might be and it might be more accurate because you can actually have different parts of the screen
React to what's on the screen so for people who are visually impaired it might be useful
Or if you're trying to operate your device without looking at it it might be useful for that as well. This is something
That's going to go into other products, so it's kind of a b2b thing
But I found this really kind of cool so wanted to show it to you
So I found this neat little camera mount here
This is called the Y roll light, and I'm going to try very hard not to cause any damage here
And what you do is you have this little dial control
here you put a camera on this and it comes with the rope and you can string it over a hundred feet here in the
United States or 50 meters they also have a 100 meter length
which is about three hundred feet or so here in the United States and
You can run this camera back and forth for a good number a good length of time about three hours so more than a drone
So you can think about maybe hooking up like a DJI Osmo or something that you can control remotely with it?
And I'm gonna give this controller back to her before I break it, and she's very nervous watching me do this so it costs
Right now to seventy nine to thirty nine or to seven to thirty nine on IndieGoGo for a pre-order
And then you can get it after it is produced and ready to go for three ninety-nine
It doesn't include the camera of course you just got a standard mount here
But kind of a neat little alternative to drones
They get some examples where they're sending it through windows and stuff so if you're looking for a really unique marketing thing and you want
Controlled flight the rope here is the way to get that controlled flight so yesterday?
We were talking to the inventor of the Benji Locke
And he was talking about a mini ones the other one they had that fingerprint lock was rather large
They got a tinier one now. That's the mini version of the lock so it'll do the same thing that we saw last night
I was eager to just to see the size difference now
I have and you have to so this is the Wi-Fi plug and this is the UK
Adapter and of course the US version will be a little different, and it is a spark plug
we've seen a lot of these before but this one works with homekit in addition to alexa and google home and
IFTTT so if you are a Multi hub home as I am this will work with all of the different hubs
And I haven't really found one of these out there that does that they've also integrated some other things
They look at your user behavior, so if they find that you're always
Shutting down your devices at a particular time or based on a certain set of conditions that will also
Shut down those devices then but if you are doing any kind of home automation through any of the major hubs
this one supports them all a little more expensive than most because it is supporting all these different technologies and
Apple charges a nice licensing fee for these things
I think it's about $45 per plug
But if you are looking for universal compatibility in your smart plug this one might do it for you
So here's a cool thing
This is called the box lock and I'm sure you've been hearing about the they call them the Porsche pirates
but I call them thieves and what they do is steal your stuff off your porch these guys have a neat solution so
Course we've been seeing some stuff where you can let the delivery driver in with a camera from Amazon and everything
but maybe you don't want to let people into your house this might be a solution so this is a bar coded a
Barcode reader here on this lock and what it does is it ties into your incoming deliveries
So you tell the app?
What's coming and a tracking number it goes out to the delivery carriers website make sure it's new for delivery today
And then I'm going to have Rossier demonstrate when that delivery driver shows up with that package with that tracking number
That's due to be delivered today. He's going to scan that real quick
Go ahead, and what it will do is validate with Wi-Fi that the package has indeed arrived
And it will unlock the lock so you can then have to the delivery driver unlock it you put your thing in the box here
Nobody's going to take that and you can lock it back up again
And you are good to go and what I liked about this is that it's really
validating that the package coming is the one that it's going to
Allow to unlock so you can't just show up with a random label and unlock this thing it does validation
And you're not letting people in your house to drop off packages
Which I think might be a better alternative than some of the other things. We've been seeing out there
This is a hundred and twenty nine dollars right now. Not yet shipping, but shipping soon, and it is a working thing here
It's on IndieGoGo right now, and you can check it out there so the Box lock pretty cool
So if you think about your home during the day you're getting a lot of sunlight on your home, and if you're not home
You're heating up your house, and you're missing an opportunity perhaps to generate some electricity my house has got really good southern exposure
I've got no solar panels these devices here are called solar gaps, and they sit on the exterior of your home
And they can actually get you some solar energy generation while you're not at home
So what you do is have your Google home or your Alexa?
Program to open these things up perhaps when you leave the house or something
Your house will not get all that hot during the day because the Sun is being blocked by them, and you'll also be generating electricity
price in
how much you can generate with this is going to vary based on where you live and which dealer networks you work through so it's
Hard to come up with a price for exactly what this will cost but the cool thing is is that these can also double as
Storm shutters because they can shut the other way and they've got some pretty decent metal here in the back
That should be able to protect them from
You know decent storm related damage so pretty cool idea here
Because there's always a waste of potential whenever you've got the Sun beating down on something
And you don't have a solar panel there to collect the energy
so I just ran into some friends of mine simply Nook and we're gonna do some more with these guys in the future and
they've been mostly a b2b company, and they've been taking the Intel nook and
integrating them for their customers
And there's obviously some value for consumers as well as we're all doing these home media servers and stuff to be able to have
turnkey solutions
and that's what the home base here might be used for I call this kind of the stretch limo of knucks because they
Made it a little bit taller
In order to accommodate larger hard drives
and this will be something that'll be easy to use on your television and of course integrate with all the
Different home theater and cord-cutting stuff that we like to look at on the channel now
What caught my eye as I was walking by is this beast right here
This is the new Hades Canyon nook that I am sure many of you have heard about this has got the new hybrid Intel AMD
Processor so it's got an eighth gen Intel i7
quad core along with an AMD graphics subsystem
Or GPU essentially on the same die so it's kind of a merger of two competitors here. It's kind of cool
It's got a light up skull here Hades canyons a really cool name on the back
It's got two Thunderbolt ports along with a few other ones as well including dual LAN ports as well
It's kind of a nice little beast and it's VR capable
And I'm really eager to try one of these things out so cool stuff and the last thing here is
Another little box that the simply nook people are making
This is a drive array that can attach up via Thunderbolt to your nook and it looks the same
It's got the same industrial design
So you can stack them on top of each other or put them next to each other it looks
Looks the part, and you've got a good amount of room in here to store some pretty fast SSDs
Or other hard drives and stuff so check them out
They got some cool stuff here
And I think we're going to be doing more with this as they start going into the consumer market alright
Here's another cool thing. I found this is in the audiovisual section where I'm finding a lot of cool stuff
This is the Ojo and you may have heard about this
This is a projector that works with your Nintendo's switch, so if I take the switch out here. You can see it
Just disconnected. We got a real switch here
A docket insider here now and now that should kick on to the projector here once it boots up
And maybe takes just a second for the video to initialize and there you go
So you can dock with this thing charge it you have all your USB ports and everything else and what's cool is that?
You could also plug in devices via HDMI and there's a speaker on there, too
so you can pretty much set this up out in the garage outside or something project against the garage and have yourself a
fun little big screen
Nintendo switch
Experience at night in the summertime so that might be kind of a fun little use for this thing and maybe project some movies
Too this is going to be $369? $369 for this version
It's coming out soon, and then this is something I've been waiting for
$39 for this thing and this is exactly what you think it is it is a dock that works with your switch
And you just plug this little cable into its USB type-c port on the bottom
I'll just lay it flat on your table
And you've got the HDMI out here along with a USB port and an additional USB type-c port over here
So I am looking forward to having one of these because I ain't eat one of these and I think a lot of you do
as well if you're trying to hook your
Switch up to more than one
Television for a lower price than the standard Nintendo dock so we also checked out this really cool thing at a booth from a company
Called Noveto and what they have is this directional audio technology, and the guy said this is like headphones without headphones
I said you're full of it
I said I'll give it a shot what the heck so I sat in front of this computer
It detected my face it found my ears
And it was directing audio just to my ears and I had a Goldie behind the camera listening in as well
She could not hear what I was hearing and she was right next to me was pretty impressive
I got to tell you
Every once in a while somebody actually doesn't have something that lives up to their pitch now
I would like to try this out in a quieter environment because obviously with the show floor being so noisy
Perhaps there might be some residual sound coming through
But it was still pretty impressive that she could not hear what I heard
And then I had her stand in front and I experienced that as well so really cool stuff
And we'll see where this ends up. It's not in a product at the moment
It is kind of a concept of technology that might be in something down the road
But I will say overall this has been a relatively disappointing day down
there usually we see a lot more stuff that kind of rises to the occasion of a
Little thing that we do with their booths there wasn't a lot of innovation this year in my opinion
I think part of the problem is is that we've kind of hit a maturation point with our technology the sensors armature the
Processors armature and must not seeing a lot of cool and new and different things, so we'll see what tomorrow brings
We're still more to see of course
We're gonna go up to some more companies that have a little bit more money in the bank so perhaps
We'll see some more innovative things tomorrow so stay tuned another dispatch is coming up the day after this one
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