welcome to CES we're ready to go thank you
LG's entry into their pavilion was absolutely stunning to just sit in for a
time but once you got in you saw their roll-up OLED Signature Series of TVs
ready for the market here is Samsung's giant "The Wall" TV which is another showcase
of the 8k technology and they really stole a lot of people's time as they
just sat and stared at that now there were a number of other 8k panels that
absolutely look amazing but what was also amazing TCL showed off displays
like this that are so razor thin and have such a different design that they
can go a lot of different places in your home to me the best thing there though
was LG's micro LED what you're seeing on screen right now and TCL also had
something very similar called their mini LED both of those displays looked
sharper crisper and just had better colors than their OLED cousins now
Samsung's Sero was also a very interesting display with the ability to
move with your smartphone and the other thing we're seeing with the displays and
just a whole new genre is the ability to showcase art have see-through displays
and other uses for those same television screens that we have there were so many
personal robots and personal assistants at CES 2020 that it is pretty clear that
the world is ready for robots now we saw everything from personal assistants that
will help you on a day-to-day basis to personal companions that will just be
there to be a friendly face as well as everything from robots that were
expected to run facilities restaurants and
other commercial environments the war for the connected car is absolutely on
in Amazon shota's integration with a number of vendors but Sony brought
probably the biggest surprise to the show with their own vehicle now that's
not intended to be something they sell but the sensor system is incredibly
sophisticated on that samsung also demoed
their version 3 of basically they're connected car system and it shows a lot
of promise in terms of sensing and connectivity capabilities let's be
honest in the fact that Samsung's Ballie was an absolute show stealer and this
might not have a date and a time yet to be released but it is clearly the right
level for a personal assistant and looks capable of really being helpful
throughout your home gesture control is alive and well with koehlers whole suite
of products they had faucets as well as toilets that were both gesture
controllable and highly accurate flow by Moen this was my first chance to
actually sit with a panel for some time and play with this device and I will say
it is very impressive and I think most people who have the opportunity will
really enjoy a device like this especially if you can get an
installation with multiple showerheads we also ran into a gentleman from a
company called HP B and this was extremely impressive to watch his method
of gesture control he had some impressive sensing capabilities and it
was perfectly accurate as he went and controlled both a blender and a
smartphone both devices performed perfectly and the confidence that this
guy showed as we went through his devices was impressive
what you're seeing here is a soft touch sensor that can read different pressure
levels and then can be analyzed and used for a number of applications now it was
just being used for R and D here but this is where it starts and gets into
additional products one of my favorite wearables that I saw all week was the
smart belt Pro from a subsidiary of Samsung's actually now these are highly
expensive devices but there's a motion sensor in the buckle and the entire
length of the belt contains a magnetic sensor all intended to help ensure
people are not falling and also to provide analytics for how they're
walking throughout their day a research and development company called Maya has
also come out with their first consumer level product called skin now this is
essentially active wear many different forms of it but it also contains sensors
within it that provide all kinds of analytics for you your health and
well-being and these were some of the smallest sensors that I've seen
integrated into clothing Amazon showed us how they we're gonna get to supremacy
in the smart vehicle race with partnerships with Vivien's new or
upcoming car as well as the Lamborghini which looked absolutely stunning in
their showroom now I got first-hand access to the Echo Loop and the Echo
Frames and I have to say both of them impressed me very much as I got to see
them up close and personal both look high quality but what might have been
even more exciting than both of these products sitting there in front of me
was right to the side of it and I didn't get any good shots of this was something
called focal north and these smart glasses this is a retina display so it's
actually going to be on your eye and it has Amazon's voice assistant integration
as well as a number of other services Amazon also unveiled new rings solar
pathway lighting new ring bulbs as well and probably the most impressive thing
of all of these was an new solar floodlight for their series
kwikset's new halo touch door lock was especially impressive with its new
fingerprint locking sensor and unlocking sensor and it also was fully Wi-Fi
capable so it's ready to go into your home another company that really snuck
up on me lately is called AduroSmart Eria and the reason for this is all of
their products are relatively platform agnostic in terms of being ZigBee so
I've already been able to combine some of their products with both Philips Hue
and Samsung Smartthings and some of their devices have real genius in them
in a valley was also giving out demos of their new light strip which has the
ability to be wrapped around some objects because of the three-way
connector that they have they also had a fan and light switch so this was a
single switch that was very impressive take some additional hardware but would
be very useful for a lot of people in a bathroom or a kitchen setting where they
just want one single controller and want to get rid of that multi gang switch we
also had a great walk through of the roomie sensor from in telethons and some
of their new integration with galaxy watches to tell when you're the person
in the room we watch them trigger all kinds of scenes with that device we're
also lucky enough to tag along with tech with Brett to go into a C by GE demo of
their new system and their new devices now what was especially impressive was a
wireless control remote that was very easy to use it was magnetic and you
could stick it in a wall mount if you wanted as well the system was very quick
at controlling but maybe the best thing was there no neutral required smart
switch that's a Wi-Fi based device and really will provide a lot of value to
people I think it looks great as well they also had a whole lineup of devices
including a new motion sensor and a number of other devices that were coming
from partners later in this program something I uncovered was called super
bluetooth by TCL and this allowed you to go out to four
different headphones or two Bluetooth speakers with specific phones now one
major theme that I did see where 5g home hubs and this was coupled with a number
of Wi-Fi six mesh systems that are now out on the market including a Wi-Fi 6e
system which allows you to go to the six gigahertz and expands the bands up to a
160 megahertz Schneider Electric gave us an absolutely amazing
demo of their full smart breaker series here that connects with their wiser
system now I've been telling you guys that Schneider's been coming for a while
and this was an exceedingly impressive display now it's going to cost an
additional approximately five hundred US above any normal panel going into a home
but what it provides in terms of analytics and control within your home
is very impressive so this system I would be looking at if I was
constructing a new home after Google stop dancing and giving away tons of
different fun little items for people they got down to business and started
talking about the Google assistance so they are looking at in 2020 creating a
faster easier smarter they will also additionally give us access to scheduled
actions and the ability to leave notes and have them show up on smart displays
further personalizing those experiences speed dial will also show up and the
ability to read online content so you'll actually be able to read out pages that
you're browsing with your voice assistant Bosch brought a whole new
level of products here to CES this year and what they showed us not only some
concept devices but also some refrigerators that had a camera on them
and then could provide you a recipe based on the ingredients that they were
able to sense within your refrigerator now they also have improved and
increased the number of products in their smart home lineup and while this
is mostly relegated to Europe for the balance of 20/20 they're scenarios
and their ability to generate automation on-the-fly and actually track what
you're doing around your home and use that as a trigger going forward in
automation was very impressive and sets them apart from many of their
competitors we ran into an absolute gem in something called ieave I and this is
a line of products that are intended to be put on you and measure kind of your
ambient stress level so they measured everything from humidity temperature UV
and a number of other stress factors that you have in your body as well to
give you a skin in care routine on a daily basis we're all done here
that's the end of CES we literally stayed till the end I'm tired
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