- Hey guys, this is Austin.
I'm today I'm here with the very best tech
of CES 2018.
One of the first things that jumped out
to me is the In Win Winbot case.
Now, normally PC cases, not all that exciting,
but here at CES, things get a little bit
more interesting.
One look at this and you're gonna get some
Death Star vibes.
So it is a clear case that is going
to actually be able to house
some pretty serious components,
but what really makes it cool
is the fact that it is going
to be completely motorized,
so not only can you open
and close the case like Pac-Man,
but the entire thing will spin around
like a robot.
Now, at 3,500 dollars,
the best doesn't necessarily mean the most practical,
but I've got to say, it's actually
a lot cooler than I thought.
Something else cool is --
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The pigeon declined to be interviewed.
Continuing on the gaming train,
we have the Razer Project Linda.
Now this is one of my favorite things
from the show this year.
So much so that we actually already did
an entire video about it,
but the idea is that this takes the Razer phone
and turns it into a laptop.
So you plug it via USB-C,
it functions as the track pad,
as the speakers, and the guts of the phone
are enough to run the entire laptop.
So if you guys want more about that,
definitely be sure to go check out
our full video on Razer Project Linda.
Speaking of Razer, they are also showing
off their Synapse support for Phillips Hue.
So you guys probably know that Razer is all
about RGB literally everything
and they're taking that up a notch
by letting you add your Hue lights
to their Synapse software.
The way this works is that inside their Synapse software,
you can control your Hue lights
alongside all of your accessories.
So say you want to get a super cool rave going,
you can hit a key and the entire Wave will come
all the way around your room.
It's kind of ridiculous,
but I mean,
actually, I thought it's pretty cool, so, you know.
Something I think everyone will think is cool
is Sony's 8K TV.
Now 8K is slowly been showing up
at CES, even though you can't really buy them
in stores just yet.
However, Sony upped the game
with not only a full HDR-compatible TV
but it goes up to 10,000 nits.
How bright is 10,000 nits?
- It's really bright.
- You heard it here first.
It's really bright.
Almost as bright as the light
that's in my face right now.
(laughs)
To put this in context, most standard TVs,
even our HDR-compatible,
might top at around 500 nits,
whereas this guy can go all the way
up to 10,000.
Now what's cool about this is
that especially for some games,
like Gran Turismo for example,
which have been designed with some proper HDR support
in mind, you can have incredibly bright
specific sources.
So say that you see the headlights of a car
or a bright sunset.
That can be way, way brighter than the rest
of the scene, giving actually a really impressive
bit of contrast.
Of course, that's to say nothing
about the idea that it is
that it is an 85-inch 8K TV,
which looks ridiculous, but it's actually the HDR stuff
that really sort of blew me away.
It looks so, so good.
Samsung were also showing off The Wall.
Now this is a new type of display technology
called Micro LED.
The idea here is that it actually is going
to be modular to a degree,
so while they were showing off a 146-inch version,
you could, at least in theory, build pretty much
as big of a TV as you wanted,
assuming you have a lot of money.
LG was also showing off a pair of new displays,
so they have not only a 4K option
but they also have a 5K ultra-wide.
So we've been using their ultra-fine 5K displays
to edit on for a little while,
and they're really nice.
However, what they're adding
with these new displays is HDR.
At least kind of.
They're using HDR-600, which is brighter
than standard displays.
However, because neither Windows or Mac
actually support HDR yet, it's still kind of
a little bit in the middle right now.
What's cool is the 4K option support Thunderbolt Three
as well as daisy chaining.
So off of a single Thunderbolt Three port,
you can actually run two of these 4K displays.
So what I think a lot of people
are going to be interested in
is the new 5K Ultra-wide.
So with a resolution of 5120 by 2160,
this is basically like a super-wide 4K display
and especially for gaming,
if you have some crazy, over-the-top system,
it's gonna look nice.
Moving to the audio side of things,
we have the new Sennheiser HD-820 headphones.
Now the HD-800s are regarded as some
of the best-sounding headphones pretty much anywhere
and the 820s add a glass back to the headphones.
This might sound weird.
However, the 800s, they leak like crazy,
so if you're in the same room, you can hear
exactly what someone's listening to,
whereas with the 820s, that glass helps to give it
a little bit more of a closed sound
while still sounding absolutely incredible.
Seriously, either these things are gonna be
probably well over 2,000 dollars,
they're some of the best-sounded headphones
I've ever tried.
Moving to laptops, there's the 2018 LG Gram.
So you guys'll probably know that I love
the original Gram.
I've done a couple of videos on it.
It's one of my favorite laptops of last year,
but for 2018, not only are they going
to be bumping it up to quad core processors
but it has an almost ridiculously large
72 watt-hour battery.
There are also some nice additions,
including the option of adding a Thunderbolt Three
port instead of USBC, which is especially nice
for those LG displays.
You also now get dual SSD slots, so you can actually
open this guy up and not only add some more memory
but also another SSD.
This is definitely a laptop I wanna check out
as soon as it comes out in the next few months.
Something I found surprisingly cool
at this year's show is the Casio Mofrel 2.5d printer.
So you guys are probably familiar with 3D printers
that will print full 3D objects
and especially when you get up higher
in the budgets, you can do some really cool stuff
with that.
However, with the Mofrel, you're actually printing
textures, so with our demo, they printed a mesh material,
but in about five minutes, you can do all kinds
of different textiles, you can do fake leather,
you can even do things like stone.
Now, of course, this is going to be more
on the manufacturing side, so say you wanna build
like a prototype really quickly, it's cool,
and they're 50,000 dollars.
It will not come cheap.
But it is really cool to be able
to print stuff that looks and feels
surprising real in just a few minutes.
Ken, are we done?
Is this is it for CES?
Can we go home now?
I don't have a voice anymore.
I've been looking at tech all week.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed our best of CES.
If you missed any of the videos,
check 'em out over here.
Or over here.
I don't know.
No, no, not there.
There's no videos up there, Ken.