CES 2019: Buzzword Bingo
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| CES 2019: Buzzword Bingo | |
| Number | 3442 |
| Broadcast Date | JANUARY 7, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 35:43 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Allison Sheridan |
It’s Monday at the Las Vegas Convention Center and we’re bringing all the latest buzz from CES 2019.
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Quick Hits
- Spotify will allow companies to sponsor the entire Discover weekly playlist instead of just running ads in it for free tier users. Discover Weekly listeners supposedly stream twice as much as music as others. Microsoft will be the first taker with an ad campaign around AI. Maybe with Common who does the equivalent TV ads?
- HP launched its first Chromebook running on an AMD processor with integrated Radeon graphics. The HP Chromebook 14 arrives later this month for $269. Acer will follow with its forst AMD-powered Chromebook 315 in February. HP also announced the 65-inch Omen X Emperium gaming monitor certified as one of Nvidia's Big Format Gaming Displays with G-Sync HDR. It also has HP's Quantum Dot tech and a resolve rate of 144Hz. And it comes with a soundbar Shield TV software built-in. It's $5,000 and arrives in February.
- Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder of clothing retailer Zozo promised to share 100 million yen (almost a million dollars) between 100 random people selected out of everyone who retweets him. The tweet has been retweeted more than 4 million times. This unseats Carter Wilkinson's 3.5 million 2017 retweets of his request of a year's supply of chicken nuggets from Wendy's.
- Huawei announced the 13-inch MateBook 13 a mid-range laptop between the MateBook D and MateBook X Pro. It's 14.9 mm thick making it thinner than the MacBook Air. Both models have 8GB of RAM and a fingerprint reader on the power button. The core i5 model is $999 and the Core i7 with a discrete Nvidia MX150 GPU is $1299. Both go on sale in the US January 29.
- Standard Cognition acquired Explorer.ai to help it develop scanless payment technology -- similar to Amazon Go-- for large stores. Amazon is doing 2,000 square foot stores, Standard Cognition wants to do 20,000 square foot stores. Explorer.ai will bring its machine vision mapping expertise developed for autonomous cars, to ceiling mounted cameras for scanless stores. -- In a related note, Kroger announced a partnership with Microsoft to make two stores, in Monroe, Ohio and Redmond, Washington into "connected" grocery stores. It's not scanless but it guides shoppers through the store to find the things on their list.
- TCL announced a 75-inch version of its 4K HDR Roku TV with Dolby Vision HDR10with preorders beginning today for less than $1700, shipping in the coming weeks. TCL also introduced his first Alto soundbars either standalone or bundled with a wireless subwoofer and its first headphones. 4 models will come out starting with wired in-ear and earbud models February 1. TCL announced a Roku soundbar last year at CES but never brought it to market. TCL and Roku also announced a partnership to make--- get ready folks-- 8K TVs coming later this year with some having built-in far-field mic arrays for voice control. The 8-Series as it will be called will offer Quantum Contrast, a new backlight technology based on mini-LEDs, and QLED.
- Tile is partnering with Bluetooth Low Energy chipmakers like Qualcomm, Dialog Semiconductor, Silicon Labs and Toshiba to build Tile's tracking tech into chips. This will make it as easy as checking a box for a device manufacturer to include tracking tech in stuff.
Top Stories
- Samsung announced it will offer iTunes Movies and TV shows and support Airplay 2 and HomeKit on its 2019 TV sets starting this spring. It will also come to 2018 Samsung TVs through a firmware update. The iTunes app will support Samsung's Universal Guide, search features and Bixby though Apple told The Verge that Samsung will not be able track usage inside the iTunes app. iTunes will be available in more than 100 countries and airplay in 190 countries. In a related note, Vizio and LG also announced AirPlay 2 and this HomeKit coming to its TVs this year as well.
- Last year at CES, Samsung's Wall TV with modular MicroLED panels got a lot of attention, and this year there's a see-through version called The Window'... but more importantly for actual consumers is a version of The Wall that might actually work in your home, a 4K rez, 75-inch version which Samsung hasn't offered a price on yet, but says is coming soon. Samsung’s Creative Lab (C-Lab) an incubator the company launched in 2012, has announced 8 new projects including Tisplay, an “in-video virtual ad service.” aiMo, a smartphone app and cover case to record audio that triggers (in some people) a static-like tingling sensation on the skin for better “spatial directivity” for sounds, Medeo, a tool for video creators using AI to auto-detect scenes and context, and finally, the Girin Monitor Stand infused with AI which Samsung says will help “correct … posture” by detecting how you’re sitting and adjusting you gradually.
- LG showed off its rollable OLED screen again at CES but this time it promises to ship the model. The LG OLED TV R is a 65-inch TV that rolls down into a base with a 100-watt Dolby sound bar. It can also not quite roll all the way down for something LG calls line mode that lets you see just enough for things like music titles and the time and such. LG claims it will last for 50,000 rolls. No price but its promised for the second half of the year.
- Amazon Key, the system that lets couriers unlock your door to leave packages inside, is now called Key by Amazon. It's also adding Key by Garage so they can leave your Amazon deliveries in the garage rather than your house or car. There's also Key for Business which lets building managers control hours and entry for deliveries. There's also the Schlage Encode Smart WiFi Deadbolt coming Q1. Ring Doorbells are also getting Key access so you can look at your Ring monitor and unlock the door if you verify it's someone who should have access.
Buzz Word Bingo
- Lots of wearable tech at CES this year beyond glasses and watches Bra company Soma debuted its smart bra here at CES, a Bluetooth-connected bra that takes four body measurements for fit and a companion app that suggests bra styles and sizes that'll fit best. The user then orders those bras through Soma's website, app, or physical store. The Somainnofit can be bought online starting January 8th for $25 for a limited time, then $59 regularly after that. Soma stores will begin using it as part of their fit service later in the month. Oh, but that's not all in boobland. There's also Elvie, a silent wireless hands-free smart breast pump fits inside a nursing bra. The Elvie app tracks pumping history and volume. Price is a bit steep at $499 for the double which includes two pump units and $279 for the single.
- Let's talk about some Home Stuff. Whirlpool showed off its Connected Hub Wall Oven with a 27-inch transparent LCD interface that can show recipes from Whirlpool's Yummly and a live view of what you're cooking that you can zoom in on. In addition to its immersive toilet, Kohler showed off a faucet with Amazon Voice so you can tell it exactly how much water to dispense.
- Apple held a press conference at CES to announced third party products that work with HomeKit now that it works with software authentication as well as the MFi chipset making it easier for products to adopt Homekit. Among the devices are WeMo light switches for $40 that work with Siri or the Home app coming spring or summer. A smart light strip from Eve. An in-wall smart outlet from ConnectSense with energy monitoring coming by June. Touchscreen smart locks from Kwikset and ultrasecure smart locks from Avia. A modular smart lighting system from Nanoleaf Canvas starting at $248 and a smart video doorbell and Indoor Air Quality Monitor from Netatmo.
- A couple Car announcements that caught our eye, Audi is working with Holoride and Marvel for an early demo of backseat VR that uses the cars motion to inform the game, so your spaceship in the Rocket Rescue Game speeds up and corners along with the car. It promises low latency so you won't puke. The platform will be open to developers. And the automaker-owned Here navigation company is building Here Navigation on Demand with Amazon Voice for Cars. It's software as a service that can work with your infotainment system so you can ask for optimal routes, points of interest and traffic info. You can do all that in the car or through another Amazon Voice device. Qualcomm announced three new levels of car computing platforms, from entry-level to expensive: Performance, Premiere and Paramount and said it is working with Amazon to offer voice services in cars.
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- Ford Will Equip All New U.S. Vehicles With 5G Technology Starting in 2022
- We won't try to cover all the products touting 5G but here's a couple. Sprint plans to offer 5G-capable smartphones from Samsung this summer. Verizon announced similar plans for the first half of the year last month. Meanwhile, Ford said it will outfit all new US models with 5G starting in 2022. It will use it for the C-V2X standard to talk to other cars and things like stoplights. US regulators have not greenlighted C-V2X and is backing dedicated short-range WiFi or DSRC which GM and Toyota use. Yay. Format war!
- A self-driving Tesla Model S hit and destroyed an autonomous Promobot the robot model v4 in Las Vegas in a car accident. The incident took place at 3000 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas. At 7pm, the Promobot’s engineers transported robots to the Vegas’s Congress Hall to prepare their booth at the CES-2019. All the robots were moving in a line. But one of them missed its way and drove to the roadway of the street parking lot. At that moment it was hit by a self driving Tesla car.
Nvidia Keynote
- Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 2060 to be available for $349. The RTX 2060 features 240 tensor cores with 52 teraflops of deep learning, 6GB of GDDR6 RAM and 5 giga-rays of real-time ray tracing performance. Nvidia claims it is faster than the 1070 Ti and 60% more powerful than the 1060. It's coming out January 15 in multiple systems. Nvidia also announced RTX 2080 through to RTX 2060 GPUs coming to 40 laptops starting January 29.
- Among gaming laptops with RTX processors in them are the Samsung Odyssey with an RTX 2080 and 8th Gen hexacore Intel Core i7 processor with user-replaceable 256 GB NVMe SSD and 1 TB HDD coming to the US in early 2019. The $4,000 Acer Predator Triton900 2-in-1 convertible with a 17-inch 4K touchscreen up to Intel’s hexacore 8th Gen Core i7 processors, Nvidia’s new RTX 2080 GPU, NVMe PCIe SSDs, and up to 32GB DDR4 memory coming in March. The Asus ROG Mothership a 17.3-inch 10 pound laptop with a kickstand and a keyboard that can be removed and used wirelessly and runs on RTX 2080 GPU and Intel’s top-of-the-line Core i9-8950HK processor and up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, coming later in Q1. And literally at the other end of the scale is Alienware's 17-inc m17 laptop with RTX 2060, 2070 Max-Q or 2080 Max-Q GPUs and Intel's eighth-generation processors up to the six-core i9-8950HK at 5.79 pounds. The Alienware m17 is available January 29 starting at $1,650.
Mailbag
- In episode 3440, there was a discussion about the new Vuzix glasses. Sarah mentioned how popular watches are now as wearables, allowing for someone to keep their phone in their purse, insinuating that someone might not necessarily need that information projected on glasses because they have it on their wrist.
She could not be more wrong, IMHO!
I challenge you to put on a long sleeve shirt or a coat and tell me how convenient it is to glance at a watch! Or, better yet, tell me how convenient it is to look at a watch when you are carrying stuff and pulling stuff through an airport!
HEADS-UP display - truly hands-free, and arms-free, is the differentiator!
Granted, there are benefits to having a device strapped to your arm, but I will take a display that I can glance at without having to touch a thing (or raise my arms) any day of the week! My Google Glass is getting very long in the tooth, so I no longer use them, but I eagerly await a new version, which looks better than those god-awful ugly Vuzix glasses that are being sold today! 😉
When they are available, the watch is coming off my wrist! - Sent by Matt in Louisville
- In episode 3440, there was a discussion about the new Vuzix glasses. Sarah mentioned how popular watches are now as wearables, allowing for someone to keep their phone in their purse, insinuating that someone might not necessarily need that information projected on glasses because they have it on their wrist.
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