This story will be updated as more announcements are made throughout the course of the week.
2024 marks the 64th year of the Consumer Electronics Show more commonly known as CES, the annual event where the tech industry spotlights all the most cutting edge products.
The event launches today with upcoming keynotes from Nvidia, LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, and more. Naturally, AI is a huge focus at this year's event, but there's also plenty of other cool gadgets for those who aren't quite ready to embrace our robotic overlords just yet.
Here are a few of the items that have been shown off at the event so far.
Transparent screens
Ready for your computer monitor to look like it came right out of 2022's "Minority Report"? Good news – that's exactly what Samsung (SSNLF) -) has to offer with its new Transparent MicroLED screens. First seen at The Wall during CES several years back, these prototypes are not ready for a price tag yet, but you can bet when they get one it will be sky-high.
LG also showed off a wireless transparent OLED built with LG's new Alpha 11 AI processor, which is four times as powerful as the chip before it. All this spells one thing: the trend of transparent screen offerings is probably going to get bigger.
Speakers as art
Samsung did a very cool thing by debuting the Frame TV some years back, which hung on the wall and looked very much like a piece of art. Now, the company's latest innovation takes that idea a step further: the Music Frame, which is a Bluetooth speaker that doubles as art on your wall and uses two mid-woofers to produce sound that properly fills a room. And it's just part of a line-up designed to help you enjoy media more deeply than ever before.
Even more AI
AI announcements saturated the back half of 2023, and you can expect more of that this year. Nvidia's press conference was jam-packed with AI innovations, from improving the appearance and performance of video games to partnering with Getty Images for a new offering: Generative AI, which can create the exact images a user wants even if they do not currently exist in the Getty library.
AI will also be all over TV tech this year. Samsung announced AI Customization Mode, which will read whatever you're watching and, based on your specifications, automatically adjust the settings. Now only is this extremely cool, but it also means the days of your husband blocking the first five minutes of the movie adjusting the settings could finally come to an end.
The death of the housekey
In 2023, Amazon added palm-scanning technology to its Whole Foods stores, allowing customers to pay with a hand wave instead of fumbling for a card or their phones. Now Phillips has announced a home lock that uses similar technology. Called the Wi-Fi Palm Recognition Smart Deadbolt, it retails for $359.99 and will be out in the first quarter of 2024. It's also Alexa and Google-enabled, so you can manage it with your voice too.
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