- Hey guys, this is Austin.
And today I'm here with some of the best stuff
that I've seen at CES 2017.
Also, I have a super cool mic
so that means I'm legit.
- How's it going?
- This is the second year in a row
that I was literally filming the intro to my video
and some famous YouTuber walked up behind me.
How's it going? (man kissing Austin on cheek)
I appreciate the commitment.
So before I talk about all the cool things that I saw,
what did you see at CES that you actually liked?
You have six seconds, go!
- Uh, Project Valerie, uh.
- Perfect, thanks.
Anyways, so,
one of my favorite things I saw at CES this year
was Razer Project Valerie.
It is essentially a triple-screen laptop.
The base of it is a fairly standard Razer Blade Pro,
a cool laptop but it traditionally has
a single 17-inch 4K display.
Mere child's play when you can actually have
three of those 4K displays built in.
The way they fold out is interesting.
They had a couple of different prototypes at the booth.
With Razer, a lot of the time after you see these
sort of projects at CES, before too much longer,
they actually ship them.
Valerie's an interesting idea
having essentially 12K gaming,
a triple-screen 4K setup on a laptop
is actually kind of insane.
It's also gonna be insanely expensive
and probably very hard to drive from a laptop
but it's a really cool idea.
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- Continuing on the crazy laptop train,
there is the Acer Predator 21 X.
This thing is actually insane
but the difference is you can buy it
in February
for $9,000,
no big deal, standard laptop, spare change.
Inside you get two GTX 1080s.
You get an overclockable Core i7,
five drive bays,
two power supplies,
and a 21-inch curved display
on a laptop.
I'm not exactly sure what the audience
for a 20-pound $9,000 laptop is
but if you want some insane performance,
Acer also has you covered.
Completely changing gears on the laptop side,
there is the LG Gram 14.
Now at first glance,
this looks like a way more normal computer.
It's made of plastic.
It's got some cool things like
you actually have a 14-inch display
but the chassis about 13 inch
because it's got a small bezel.
There's actual ports,
a decent keyboard.
What's cool about this is that first of all
it's incredibly lightweight.
From the Gram name,
it's less than a kilogram
which for a 14-inch laptop is not bad.
More importantly than that,
it has a big 60 watt-hour battery.
Yes!
Pause!
Stop the music!
You heard that right.
There's a laptop in 2017 that is still
thin and light, and they added battery.
Isn't that incredible?
Isn't that an amazing idea?
Moving away from laptops,
one of the absolutely coolest things
at CES this year was the LG W7 Wallpaper TV.
Not only was it insanely thin
but it's actually flexible.
The idea is it's a 4K OLED panel
that you attach to your wall with magnets.
When you're ready to take it off,
you literally just peel it back.
Along side it, LG was also showing off
a brand new Atmos soundbar.
The idea is that it has top-firing speakers
to fire sound off the ceiling to get
a full surround experience.
The only downside to all of this
is that the actual TV itself
costs $8000, so like everything else at CES,
it's really expensive.
This is really cool!
There's a 4K OLED panel that is legitimately flexible
that you can just stick on your wall.
All right, so what was your favorite thing
you saw at CES?
- Well, I really liked the LG room.
They had a tunnel full of TVs.
That was awesome.
- [Austin] Yeah, I think it was like 160
or something like that?
- [Boy] They were all 4K
and they have a huge galaxy display.
It's awesome.
- Yes, it was all OLED.
Was this your first CES
or have you been before? - My first CES.
- What'd you think?
- It's awesome.
I'm coming again, hopefully,
if my dad will take me, yeah.
- (laughs) That's the move.
Dad, is he going next year?
- [Dad] Yes, he's going next year.
- We have video proof now.
We have video proof.
You're good, man.
(laughs)
(lighthearted guitar music)
Oh, as you ride off into the sunset.
(laughs)
Hisense was also showing off
a 100-inch laser projector TV thing.
The only reason I say it like that
is that while it's an ultra short-throw projector,
it actually comes with a dedicated 100-inch screen.
You're really meant to only use it with one side.
Unlike a traditional projector,
you can kind of adjust it,
move it back and forth.
It really has to be set up precisely.
It has the full sound setup.
The cool thing is because it is certified with that display,
that means that they can actually say
it is going to be HDR compatible.
It's full 4K.
While it's pricey
because everything at CES is pricey
as I keep saying over and over again,
it's a cool piece of tech.
We're talking about the best of CES.
What was your favorite thing that you saw at the show?
- I think my favorite thing was
the Xperia Projector.
- I didn't see that.
What's the deal?
- It was a small projector
that was probably about like that,
probably sat that far off the ground.
Once you turn it on,
it has a camera on there.
It also projects on the wall
or you can have it project on a surface
and use it like a tablet as well.
You can also have it project like a gallery wall
on the wall if you're not going to use it
as like an Android tablet or whatnot
or watch videos.
You can use it like that
and also switch it,
switch it up and do your entertainment on there too.
- Dude, that's rad.
I wish...
Yo Ken can we like go and check this out?
Completely outside the realm of stuff
that you and I are going to have anytime soon
is the Panasonic window projection.
Essentially, from the outside,
this looks like any standard window.
However, there's a full display built in.
For example, if you're at a sporting event
and you're looking out the window,
you can have live score,
you can pull up player information.
You can have all kinds of stuff
that is actually projected on the window itself.
This one might be a little ways out
but it is actually pretty legit.
Something I didn't see a lot of this year
at CES were smartphones.
However, what did jump out to me
was this dual-screen smartphone from Hisense.
On the front it has 1080P OLED display.
It's an Android smartphone.
It's pretty standard stuff.
However, when you flip it around,
there's an E-ink display on the back.
The idea is that you can have things like notifications
show up on the back.
The cool part is since it's E-ink,
it even works with the phone off.
For example, say your phone dies
but you have your boarding pass
on the back of the phone,
well, no problem,
scan it and you're good to go.
There were a lot cameras this year at CES,
but what jumped out to me
was the Panasonic GH5.
The GH series has been really big for a while.
The GH4 was really one of the first 4K cameras
that didn't cost a ton of money
that was actually decent.
The GH5 improves on that.
Not only do we get improved 4K recording modes
with higher frame rate, and better bit rates,
and better color space,
but we also get a 6K photo mode
which is kind of video
but not proper.
There are also other cool things
like it's a bigger body
with dual SD card slots.
You actually have in-built body stabilization.
It's a cool camera.
Unfortunately, it's still Micro Four Thirds
which is a little bit of a small sensor size
for me personally.
This is definitely a big upgrade from the previous model.
All right, so what was your favorite thing
you saw at CES this year?
- To be honest,
the drones section.
It was a project called Hover Camera.
It's basically like a book.
You just open it
and it flies automatically.
- I think one of the things about drones
that really gets me excited is the idea
that it's something that can actually be portable, right,
because a lot of these drones
like the Inspires and the Phantoms,
they're amazing drones-- - but they're huge.
- Huge, yeah, you've gotta like carry
like a huge carrying case,
but the idea of having something small
that can track you
I think is really cool. - Yeah, exactly.
- Canon also had some pretty crazy cameras in the booth.
They had a two megapixel video camera
which doesn't sound too impressive
until you keep in mind that it's a full-frame camera
which means that those pixels are enormous
and their low-light performance is insane.
This camera goes up to four million ISO.
You literally can see in the dark with it.
On the complete other end of the spectrum,
they had a 250 megapixel camera.
This is more of an engineering prototype
so it's not something that you'll be able to buy
anytime soon.
What was interesting was it was actually
an APS-H sensor which is not even the same size
as like a full-frame like 5D or something.
However, they pack 250 megapixels on it.
Honestly, I'm not totally sure
how useful that's going to be.
Most lenses are not sharp enough to resolve
that much resolution
but it's really interesting the idea
of having some crazy, crazy high-resolution cameras
coming on the horizon.
Yo!
Yo, okay, hang on.
All right, all right,
I got this, I got this.
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Can I outrun it?
Can I outrun it right now?
Oh, it's lost, see it's gone.
Oh, no, no-no!
(funky, bass-thumping beat)
Yo, it's ...
It's pretty good.
Oh, it's even got the cables.
All right.
All right, you got me, you got me.
This is cool.
What is this?
- The first autonomous suitcase in the world.
- (laughs) Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.
- It is the first autonomous-- - Autonomous suitcase?
- Autonomous, autonomous.
- Okay, I got you.
- The wheels were tracked
so that way it
doesn't like drag on the floor (laugh).
- [Austin] Dude, all right, all right,
this is cool.
So this is a prototype
or is this something you could actually buy now?
- This is about 80% complete.
We're funded on Indiegogo.
We started about two months ago.
- You never know what you find at CES
or more specifically,
you never know what finds you at CES.
What was your favorite thing that you saw at the show?
Definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below.
If you missed it,
I did a video on the super cool BMW Sculpture Interior
which you guys can go check out here.
Anyway, thank you so much for watching
and I will catch on the next one.