Another CES in the books. The Country's biggest consumer electronics show featured sine 3,900 exhibitors spread out over 2.75 million square feet, making it the largets floor in the show's history, according to CTA.
The coolest gadgets we saw at CES 2018.
First, no matter how much TVs are the center of the modern living room, some find them be eyesores against their living room's decor. Those who don't like the look of their TV when it's off will find value in LG's rollable TV that can roll itself into its rectangular home until it's needed again.
Of course, the giant, rectangular case might not be to everyone's taste, especially those who favor a classical or antique aesthetic.
Secondly, you can adjust the height of the TV for certain types of content – mostly movies – that aren't filmed in the typical 16:9 aspect ratio of most TVs. For example, you've surely come across something called "letterboxing." It's when a movie is sandwiched between two black bars above and below the picture. It happens because many movies aren't filmed in the typical 16:9 TV aspect ratio.
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2.This is an $8,000 robotic umbrella. The Sunflower Shadecraft moves with the sun. It has a built-in entertainment system. It comes equipped with its own security camera.
Shadecraft is billing Sunflower as a whole lot more than a fancy beach umbrella. It can connect to your home network via Wi-Fi and allow you to interact with your smart-home devices using Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. You can listen to music via its built-in Harmon Kardon speakers, and it can help monitor your house with the camera that's built into its pole.
It can also charge your phone and can act as a Wi-Fi hotspot when you're at the beach, if you activate its cellular service.
Sunflower is available for presale beginning Tuesday and will cost $5,220 until January 15. After that, the device will cost around $8,000.
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3.Razer's "Project Linda" concept turns your smartphone into a laptop. It has a laptop-shaped dock for Razer's phone. This becomes the touchpad you'd normally have on a laptop. It will automatically display what is on your phone to the laptop screen.
The phone fits in an enclosure where you'd usually find a laptop's trackpad.
Once in the enclosure, a simple button press extends a USB-C connector into the Razer Phone's USB-C port — and just like that, you have a laptop.
I've seen a dock that lets you connect a smartphone to a monitor and run apps as you would on a computer.
But with Project Linda, the dock, like a laptop, has everything you need in one portable package.
This has been done before — but the Palm Foleo in 2007 never shipped, and 2011's Motorola Atrix, which had a laptop dock as well, was a total failure.
The phone acts as a trackpad unlike with the Palm Foleo and the Motorola Atrix, the Razer Phone's screen acts as the trackpad in Project Linda, and it worked well when I tried it at CES 2018.
It's incredibly responsive to your finger movements and feels just like your laptop's trackpad, albeit much smoother because of the phone's glass display.
4.Google's Lenovo Mirage Solo is a smartphone in VR headset form. It's their first standalone VR headset with high-tech hardware. It doesn't require a smartphone, PC, or video game console to render VR graphics.
Google unveiled the Lenovo Mirage Solo, its first standalone VR headset at CES on Tuesday.
The Lenovo Mirage Solo has many features commonly found in smartphones.
Because of its high-tech hardware, the headset does not require a smartphone, PC or video game console to render virtual reality graphics. The Mirage Solo, made by Chinese hardware maker Lenovo, will go on sale sometime between April and June for less than $400. The forthcoming headset, which allows users to step into virtual worlds without connecting to a PC or a smartphone, comes as Google races Facebook's Oculus to bring a standalone VR headset to market.
The Mirage Solo packs many of the same hardware specs as a high-end smartphone, including a processing chip, a high-resolution display, memory, internal storage, external storage, cameras and a massive battery. It even includes a headphone jack.
5.This is Toyota's self-driving e-Palette concept vehicle. It will serve as a multi-purpose delivery vehicle, mobile office, or storefront. With Toyota's recent partnership with Pizza Hut, the vehicle could be used to deliver pizzas.
Toyota revealed a self-driving concept vehicle, the e-Palette, at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday.
The vehicle will come in three sizes and is designed to be used for a variety of purposes, including freight and package delivery, ride-sharing, and mobile offices and storefronts.
Toyota hopes to start testing the vehicle in the early 2020s.
Toyota revealed a self-driving concept vehicle, the e-Palette, at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday.
The electric, box-shaped vehicle will come in three sizes. The largest will be around the size of a bus and be able to haul freight and make large deliveries, while the smallest will be compact enough to travel on sidewalks. Toyota envisions the e-Palette will serve a variety of potential uses, allowing businesses to deliver goods, transport people, or use the vehicle as a mobile storefront or office.
Toyota will design the vehicle with input from companies like Amazon, Didi, Mazda, Pizza Hut, and Uber. Toyota hopes to start testing it during the early 2020s and integrate the e-Palette into the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
"The automobile industry is clearly amidst its most dramatic period of change as technologies like electrification, connected and automated driving are making significant progress," Toyota president Akio Toyoda said in a statement. "This announcement marks a major step forward in our evolution towards sustainable mobility, demonstrating our continued expansion beyond traditional cars and trucks to the creation of new values including services for customers."
What will be in store for 2019?
