-Hello from Las Vegas. -I am Geoff Fowler.
-And I'm Heather Kelly. -And we are at CES 2020.
-It is the world's largest consumer electronics show.
-And we are here to find the coolest --
-The weirdest -- -Gadgets of the future.
And to ask each of their makers
the most important question of all.
-Why? -Why did you make that?
Ready to hit the show floor?
-Let's do it. -Okay.
-Sorry.
-Here's one you got to see to believe.
Samsung invented a TV that rotates.
It's called the Sero.
-This is the first TV that allows you
to look at things in portrait or landscape.
-Video in portrait?
You can thank all those social-media mavens taking video
with their phones held upright instead of wide.
-It's really mobile-centric, so as you can see,
I'm screen mirroring from my phone to the TV.
So YouTube or web browsing no longer has to be
a thing I can do by myself. -Why do you need this?
If you want to look at something on your phone,
don't you just look at it on your phone?
-When I get home, I'm gonna want to share all my pictures
with my friends and family,
and I don't want to be passing around the phone,
and my couch only holds, like, three people.
-So, blame the millennials. This is the millennial TV.
-It's more than just millennials using their phones
for pictures and shooting videos.
There are more than millennials just using YouTube.
-Have a dream of getting a tattoo,
but you're afraid of the commitment or maybe the needles?
Could we put some tattoos on me maybe?
Some brand awareness for The Washington Post?
-Sure. It would be my pleasure.
-The Prinker is a portable device for printing tattoos
right onto your skin.
All right, so we're gonna get a picture, I believe,
of Marty Baron, our fearless leader.
Let's see if it works.
Don't worry, they're temporary.
-Every year at CES, companies keep trying
to make smart glasses a thing.
Here's one for 500 bucks called the Nreal.
It plugs into an Android phone, has some very advanced cameras,
and looks like this.
How do I look?
So, the idea is these glasses bring you mixed reality.
You can run apps and look at video
layered on top of the real world around you.
-For example, you can open up the YouTube,
and it's like you take a 200-inch
TV with you everywhere.
-So, I have YouTube playing in one eye,
and over here I'm watching TikTok.
-Yeah. -Living the dream.
Or you can fight zombies.
The view from inside the Nreal glasses
is actually good enough that it's kind of terrifying.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, geez.
Oh, oh, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
After all that, I sure could use some emotional support.
What's your name? -Bocco.
-In case you missed that, its name is Bocco Emo.
It listens and understands what you're saying to it
and responds in its own gibberish language.
-How are you feeling today? -[speaks gibberish]
-Turn the light on. -[speaks gibberish]
-But why do we need an Emo robot?
-Maybe in some situations, you would want a robot
which you can easily include in your family,
which you can establish a sort of emotional connection with,
and that's why we established Bocco Emo,
which does provide some sort of emotional reaction
to your statements, to your emotions, as well.
-So he's like your little buddy. -Yeah, your little friend.
-The Atmos is a new kind of air filter
for the busy person living in a polluted area
who also wants to look good.
-So, the moment that you put on the product,
the device turns on, it cleans that air,
and it gives you a fresh breath of clean air.
-The clear, battery-powered device filters air in two stages
and can be used for daily commutes
or even smoke from wildfires.
-Of course, tech wants into your bedroom, too.
This is Restore, a bedside lamp and white noise machine in one.
-It's designed to help people fall asleep,
stay asleep, and wake up gently.
-You program in your nightly routine,
including reading and maybe a little meditation.
-What happens when I'm doing my reading routine
is you'll see that the light will fade,
and I breathe out when the light fades down.
I breathe in when the light gets bright.
-And it's connected to an app so you can customize your ritual.
-By the time it gets to 7:00 AM, it's full brightness.
I don't know if you can hear it, but now you hear chirping birds,
which is what I choose to wake up to.
-Do you have any heavy metal it can wake you up to?
-That's a great question. We'll have to look into that.
-For the first time, sex tech
is being embraced by the conference.
Lora DiCarlo is one of a dozen sex tech companies at CES 2020
after being excluded in the past.
-There is a lot of innovation that comes out of sex tech,
so I think, you know, trying to squander it off in a corner
and putting a veil over the top,
it doesn't do anybody any favors.
All it does is just --
it makes something seem like it's taboo when it shouldn't be.
There's nothing wrong with human sexuality.
-If turning on the faucet ever feels like a lot of work,
then meet the U by Moen smart faucet.
It takes voice commands.
You can ask for specific temperatures
and amounts of water.
-So, it's a voice-activated kitchen faucet
using your favorite voice assistant like Google or Amazon
to use your voice to get precise measurements
or precise temperature or a combination of both.
-Hey, Google, ask Moen to dispense two cups of water.
-Getting Moen.
Wave over sensor to dispense two cups now.
Let's see if it does it right.
Is it two cups?
But wait. Why?
-It simplifies your life, you know, when you're cooking
or a busy parent, stuff like that.
This talking faucet will run you 450 bucks.
Not much more than other high-end models.
I'm thinking busy parents.
Can I say, "Moen, dispense two cups of wine"?
-Not yet, but that is something
we're looking into in the future for sure.
-And that's a wrap. This has been CES 2020.
-We explored the halls, we found cool gadgets,
and we asked the big question, "Why?"
-And the answer is why not? That's tech.
-We'll see you next year at CES 2021.