The Engadget team is on the ground in Las Vegas covering CES 2024, ready to catch all your print tech news. Since you may not have time to read every story on our site, we’ll round up the most exciting stories into daily live blogs to keep you informed.
The show doesn’t officially start until Tuesday, but the first day begins this evening with the CES reveal, where a group of companies gather in a crowded room to show off a small sample of their new products. We’ll be bringing you all the news live from the sad ballroom at Mandalay Bay Casino starting at 8pm ET.
We’ll be live again tomorrow for a busy Monday schedule. First up tomorrow is AMD’s press conference at 10am ET, then we have competing press conferences at 11am – NVIDIA and LG. There are plenty of other shows in between, but the next big press show after that is Samsung’s show at 5pm ET. So what do we expect from all these conferences? Well, AI of course, but beyond the obvious, you can probably look forward to some new graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA, and a host of new home entertainment gadgets from the two Korean giants.
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Samsung launches the world’s first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024
At its First Look event during CES 2024, Samsung showed off three variations of the world’s first transparent Micro LED display. (Photo by Sam Rutherford/Engadget) During the First Look event, Samsung teased the world’s first transparent MicroLED display.
Although there’s no word yet on how much this technology will cost or when this technology will find its way to retail devices, Samsung showed off not one but three different transparent LED displays with slightly different designs. Two of the demo units featured tinted glass making it easy to ignore any potential partition objects behind the panels, while another looked as clear as regular glass while also featuring a frameless design.
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The Flappie AI cat door prevents your pet from offering you dead mice
Flappy cat door (Photo by Nathan Ingraham/Engadget) Well, maybe artificial intelligence He is the future. Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham just checked out an AI-powered cat door that can apparently tell if your cat is trying to bring a dead animal inside and tell it to leave the treat outside.
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Someone made a Peloton-like demo of the world’s most popular rowing machine
Image of the Myrow 22-inch touch tablet screwed onto a ConceptD RowErg (Photo by Daniel Cooper/Engadget) Senior Reporter Daniel Cooper is very excited to show off this rowing machine:
“It was at CES 2024, in a Las Vegas ballroom with a very firm carpet, and I was getting an electric shock every few minutes, until I finally saw one of my long-held dreams come true. You see, I own a Concept2 Model D rowing machine, which is Best rowing machine on the market. But the company has always refused to build a display that didn’t look like it was from the early 1980s. When the PM5 launched, it looked dated, but in a world where Hydrow and Peloton could offer great touchscreen displays and live classes, it looked dated . That’s why I’m thrilled to have found Myrow and his modified 22-inch monitor for Concept2 rowing machines.”
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Govee’s chatbot programs your smart lights for you
Govee Lighting at CES 2024 (Engadget) Even smart lighting manufacturer Govee has a dedicated AI chatbot. Although it wasn’t available for testing at CES Unveild, Govee’s AI Lighting Bot will eventually be integrated into the company’s smartphone app, where it will apparently be able to coax it into generating using natural language input.
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Samsung’s 2024 TV lineup at CES 2024 includes lots of AI and a ‘glare-free’ OLED display
Product image of the latest Samsung Neo QLED 8K TV. Blue/purple patterns on TV, showing their accuracy. Orange background. (Samsung) Samsung’s CES 2024 TV launch is here. The company typically reserves more precise product details (including pricing) for later, but it provided Engadget with a quick summary of its new TV lineup ahead of its press conference on Monday. The new 8K TVs feature new AI-powered features, including upscaling technology (to help with the scarcity of native 8K content), and claim that the “glare-free” OLED model looks equally sharp in bright and dark rooms.
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Samsung debuts a Music Frame speaker to pair with your Frame TV at CES 2024
Samsung music frame (Samsung) Samsung’s The Frame TV has been a staple part of its home entertainment lineup since the product debuted in 2017. The company has upgraded it several times over the years, but at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled a new audio accessory to accompany the TV. . A TV that can also be used as a showcase for art and photos. The company calls it the “Music Frame” (HW-LS60D): a wireless speaker that once did double duty as home decor, just like its TV counterpart. However, this unit does not have a screen, but instead has printed images or artwork that you will need to swap out manually. However, the basic idea is the same: a piece of home theater equipment with the appearance of a picture frame.
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Samsung has debuted Premiere projectors that turn any surface into an interactive home theater screen
Samsung Premier 5 (Samsung) To keep up with the new TVs and speakers in Las Vegas, Samsung also announced new projectors to fill out its home theater lineup. At CES 2024, the company has four new Premiere models to choose from, and while Premiere 8K and Premiere 5 are the most interesting, this year’s entire lineup is getting a feature called Lightwarp that turns any object or surface into an interactive object. an offer.
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LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 hands-on: Lightweight convertible gets a better, faster OLED display
LG Gram 2 in 1 (Sherlene Lu for Engadget) In recent years, LG has entered every CES with an update to its Gram series of ultra-thin and light laptops. And every time, I’m thrilled to see how difficult (or easy) it is to do a quick arm workout in the gym with the latest version. This year at CES 2024, the company is launching a pair of Pro models that feature upgraded OLED panels that support touch input and variable refresh rates. It also comes with Intel’s Meteor Lake processors and up to NVIDIA RTX 3070 graphics cards.
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Mui’s exotic wooden smart home controller hits Kickstarter tomorrow
Moi second generation council (Photo by Nathan Ingraham/Engadget) Mui is no stranger to CES, as the company’s first wooden smart home console was shown off in 2019, and the company has been working on a second-generation model for at least a year. But, finally, it looks like the new Mui Pad will be something you can order and hopefully get your hands on before the end of 2024.
Like the original, the new Mui Board is a touch-sensitive wooden surface that lets you control smart devices throughout your home. When not in use, it looks like a small wooden ledge, but when you tap it, the screen lights up. It’s a bit like a higher-end, less annoying version of the Nest Hub.
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The Kohler Voice-Controlled Bidet Seat turns your dumb toilet into a luxurious smart throne
Kohler Some companies are taking AI-powered monitors, TVs, or laptops to CES. Others bring a toilet seat that you can talk to. Kohler, a 151-year-old bathroom appliance company, will introduce the PureWash E930 Bidet Seat in Las Vegas next week. This accessory fits most tall toilets, turning the dumb caddy into an Alexa or Google Assistant-powered smart toilet. The PureWash E930 Bidet Seat “brings you the freshness of personal cleaning in a slim, low-profile design,” Kohler says. One sticking point? Its price is $2149.
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The Xreal Air 2 Ultra appears to be an affordable alternative to the Apple Vision Pro
Excelial Air 2 Ultra (Exreal) With Apple’s Vision Pro headset arriving in the coming months (or maybe weeks), you can bet we’ll be hearing from a lot of companies looking to either enter or reassert their place in the mixed reality space. Xreal’s lightweight augmented reality glasses have been a huge hit – especially among gamers – but as chief correspondent Richard Lai explains, they have even bigger ambitions. The company’s new Air 2 Ultra has 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) for spatial and hand tracking, along with a wide 52-degree field of view and 42 pixels per degree resolution within an 80-gram titanium package. . The company says these specs make the $699 Air 2 Ultra a compelling alternative to the $3,499 Vision Pro.
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The Withings BeamO is an all-in-one thermometer, ECG, and stethoscope
Withings BeamO concept, a rectangular device held in the hands. (Withings) Our first story from CES Unveiled is about the BeamO, which, from its name, should be a cool robotic companion, but is actually a new health tech gadget from Withings. According to senior correspondent Danielle Cooper, it’s a comprehensive diagnostic tool that follows in the footsteps of the company’s existing thermometer. The $250 device, called a “multoscope,” will tell you how warm (or not) you feel, measure blood oxygen, run a one-way electrocardiogram (ECG), and even function as a digital stethoscope. Place this on your chest and you can listen to the sounds your chest makes, or send the file to your doctor for further analysis.
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We’re reporting live from CES 2024 in Las Vegas from January 6-12. Keep up with all the latest news from the show here.