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2017 this is the pre-show the real fun starts tomorrow, but we're at pep comm tonight
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So what we're doing today is just going to be roaming around pep comm I'm gonna look for some
obscure stuff to show you in this video
But what I'll be also doing is collecting footage of different product categories that I'll compile
When I get back to talk about some trends
we're seeing in PCs and
home theater devices and everything else so stay tuned we got a lot of stuff to come and we're gonna take a look around the
Show floor now all right, so we're here with John at Gorilla Glass, and if you have a mobile phone
There's a good chance you probably have gorilla glass on it now. There's a new Gorilla Glass that you're gonna show us here, right?
That's correct. Yes, and what which one is this this is Corning Gorilla Glass 5
This is better than four this is better than four better than three
Yes, what are we gonna? Do here? We've got we've got some sandpaper and then
We've done with Corning Gorilla Glass five has improved the damage resistance even further and we're trying to drive drop-light
survivability up to selphie levels and
So what we have is a demonstration here to simulate that drop event where will impact on 180 grit silicon carbide sandpaper and that really
Replicates those sharp contact surfaces, so you see like concrete and asphalt things
So we're gonna start with another piece of glass first all right. Here's an alternative alumina silicate material
We're gonna simulate a drop inside of this pendulum that really simulates the impact energy of about a 1 meter drop or about waist height
And so I'm gonna go ahead and drop this sample
And what you can see is that that sample is broken and that's about that waist height kind of drop in you notice you bent
The glass there, I guess that's to replicate what happens with the phone before it's completely right
Yes, when you've dropped the phone actually will flex and so we're stimulating the flexure by pre bending the glass
All right
So now we got the Gorilla Glass 5 so we rode last five and this is also bent, right
This is also bent the same way, and we're gonna take this all the way up to the max
Which is four times more impact energy than what we saw with a previous drop
Go ahead and let that one go
Say it's still intact and not broken this and this gets up near that set selfie height around 1.6 1.7
Meters might get a little scuffed up, but you're not gonna have a break. I got a break
Very cool and which phones are these in now so currently we have public announcements with Samsung Oppo HTC Asus and Acer
Very cool, and what makes what how do you strengthen glass?
Let's is it obviously the materials that go into the glass that make that happen. How do you strengthen it?
Yeah, so it's actually the glass composition itself. It's an alkali containing aluminum silicate goes through an ion exchange process
Which helps to put compression in the glass and that compression helps keeps applause?
From basically breaking and carrying forward and that actually helps prevent damage from propagating in the glass and fracture eventually very cool
So we could be more careless with our phones, then thank your time all right
So we're looking now at the SOL pad
This is a self-contained solar panel inverter and battery and they say it's got a 600 watt hour battery
Which should be enough to power a TV or a computer or something you probably get a couple of hours out of it
Maybe you know some good usage at night with it you can hook them up in line with each other as well
When I just found interesting about it is that it just has everything in one unit so if you ever
Tried to hook up solar before you have to buy all the pieces the battery the inverter and everything else this one has it all
Built in and the starting price on this one is going to be thirteen ninety nine pre-orders in May all right
So we're taking a look now at something called the SID and this is a little 3d camera
They got it on a gimbal right now
It's gonna shoot at 2k, and I took a look at it with the cardboard in a little while ago
It actually looks pretty decent it's got a nice sharp image
And I was pretty impressed with the image call you want to take a closer look at it in the next?
Couple of weeks when it comes out. This is a Kickstarter right so
It's gonna be 299 bucks, but on Kickstarter in a month
We're gonna sell that below 200 bucks because we have any 199 bucks. I guess what they're shooting for with
This is to have a Wi-Fi
streaming capability on it so you can have it go up to Facebook live and a few other services as well and
Get 3d imagery, so it's not gonna be a VR camera. It's 3d, and what's nice. Is that as these sensors get better
I think the 3d is going to look a lot better than the VR is going to look like so I'm gonna try this out
When when one is available so let me well do a Kickstarter
And I'll let you know what I think of it when it comes out alright
So we're gonna take a look now at some
Wireless charging and a few viewers wrote in to me about where's wireless charging going
so we're looking at the air/fuel alliance right now what they've got here is a
Essentially a bench and you can see that
There is a unit underneath here, so what's happening is is that when this phone is play slips on top of the bench
It will begin charging so it's able to charge
Through a surface like this and they've also said to me them up to test this of course
But there's no limit to the amount of power that they can transmit, so they have in their suite
Maybe we'll check out their suite later this week
They apparently have the ability to charge cars with this technology also
So there's a lot more flexibility than traditional wireless charging and maybe if it's adopted your laptop could do that too
but I thought that was pretty cool that you could I have this much distance between the
Charger and the phone and still have that phone charge. Here's another cool thing. I found that the Lenovo booth
This is called the multimedia controller. It's gonna cost about 55 bucks in the spring now check this out
It looks like a little keyboard which it is, but I can take my fingers here
You could use it like a mouse
But it's also a little multimedia keyboard so if you wanted to wait you know way to control your home theater
It's a nice little small keyboard that has mouse functionality built into the keys which is really nice and compact
I can't wait to try this one out - all right so driver checking out the air bar me put my bag down here and
What this does is it turns your non touchscreen laptop into a touchscreen, so we've got a looks like a MacBook Air here
there's got a 13.3 inch touch bar on here, and I can just touch the screen and
Draw on the screen even though. This is not a touchscreen
MacBook, which is pretty cool so that's a neat little feature there that this device adds, I guess this one costs about
99 dollars for the Mac
$69 for Windows they said it's a little harder to get the Mac version working like you're seeing here
So they charge a little extra for it
But really it's just this bar here that you put down in front of your screen
and you can start using it as a touchscreen and it seems to be working pretty decently as I
Click through this if you really wanted to add touch functionality to your non touch laptop
Might be one way to do it just make sure you take it out of the laptop before you close the lid and you know
I love docks because I need them because I'm a Mac user so this is their new Thunderbolt 3 doctors price on this one yet
But what's unique about it? Is that it does power delivery and it can do?
170 wants and one of the things that I've seen with a lot of these Doc's in the past is that they've they're good for
those smaller laptops, but not the big ones so
170 watts to power the doc and the laptop is enough to really power like those big Dells that I have in the
MacBook Pro as well which I thought was pretty cool. So that was interesting and then this thing look pretty cool also
This is so I'm an Apple watch user
I always forget to bring the cable with me when I'm out and about so they've got a little battery
with a USB port and an Apple watch charger built in which I thought was pretty cool, so
Neat little stuff from Belkin they've always got these cool things that
solve problems
Here and another thing that's kind of neat here because as you know my biggest complaint with the iPhone 7 was that I can't listen
And charge at the same time. This is a dual lightning cable
That will allow you to put your headphones in and charge the phone at the same time
It's not a standard headphone jack so you have to use the earbuds that have the lightning connector
But it does kind of solve our problem there, so
Lots of neat little little gadgets here at the Belkin booth and HP also showed us their sprocket printer
Which is a little instant photo printer that prints out these little stickers and what's cool about it
Is that it's it's all thermals
There's no ink involved it actually uses a thermal process to
Take photos off your phone and get them printed out onto these stickers pretty cool stuff $129 for the printer
then you got to buy the
Pity the sticker packs over time so that's just a few of the things that I felt
We're kind of interesting here at
Pep comm there's a lot of stuff here are so many things that we can never get to all of it and keep you
Awake for it also
I tried to dis curate a few things that I know all of you found interesting
And this is a kind of approach
I want to take to CES so I'd love to get your feedback as to
What you thought of this video and whether or not?
I should do it this way, or do a mix of interviews and some other stuff also, so give me some feedback down below
That'll help me over the next three days give you some content from CES that you might find of interest. This is Lon Seidman
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