More than 100,000 people headed to Las Vegas in January 2023 to see what was new in tech at CES and it’s about to happen all over again with CES 2024.
Lots of the biggest names in tech now reserve announcements of their own gadgets for standalone shows but we do expect to see lots of new shiny stuff revealed later this month.
CES 2024 takes place between January 9 and January 12, with a couple of “media days before” when some of the biggest announcements will be made.
However, a few of the tastiest new gadgets have been either heavily rumoured or flat-out officially teased or previewed by their makers. Here are some of the highlights.
AI robot vacuums and fridges
CES is always packed with smart home devices, and this year you can be sure many of them will be labelled as having “AI”. Samsung has already announced it will show fridges with “AI Vision” and robot vacuum cleaners with “upgraded AI Object Recognition”.
In the fridges, AI is used to work out what’s inside. A camera can “identify up to 33 different fresh food items” and let the companion app track your kitchen stock levels without even opening the door. This tech, and the object recognition of the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo robot vac/mop, isn’t brand new. But is emblematic of what is likely to be the biggest theme of the show: AI.
Graphics cards from Nvidia
Nvidia is holding whole series of presentations, in which it will talk about its AI and robotics tech in gaming, VR, movie-making and more. However, it’s also expected to announce a handful of new graphics cards for desktop gaming PCs.
These are the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super, the RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4070 Super. If you’re not a gaming fan, that may sound like a string of meaningless codenames. But anyone looking to buy or build a gaming PC should take notice.
The highlight appears to the the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super, which should provide excellent performance at a much lower cost than the RTX 4080.
LG's new 98-inch TV
We’ll see LG’s 2024 TV range at CES 2024 and it is headed by an absolutely mammoth set, the 98-inch QNED TV. LG says it “addresses the growing demand for larger TVs”. Not much use in the average London home but those Americans sure love their big sets.
LG is a contender for provider of the most new CES gear this year and it has already teased a bunch of interesting gadgets. For example, there’s the LG DukeBox, a valve-based music system with a translucent OLED screen that can display album art and track information as you listen.
Or there’s the LG CineBeam Qube, a tiny 4K portable projector that weighs 1.5kg and measures 14cm tall by 8cm wide. Sure, at that size you’re not going to see incredible brightness but the claimed 500 lumens should do the trick for a dark room.
Hisense's ultra-bright 110-inch TV
Right at the opposite end from LG’s portable projectors, Hisense has teased a massive TV more than 50 times brighter. It’s a 110-inch set that claims to reach 10,000-nit brightness.
For a bit of context, the high-end LG G3 OLED TV can reach peaks of around 2000 nits. This Hisense is up to five times brighter, using mini LED display technology, and it’s almost double the brightness of Hisense’s own 6000-nit UXN, teased in September.
It’s called the Hisense 110UX. We have no idea how much it will cost or if it will go on sale in the UK. But we still want to behold this thing in person.
Displace wireless TVs
Fully wireless TVs were one of the highlights of CES 2023. The company that made this splash, Displace, is returning this year with some new models.
First up is the Displace Flex, a 55-inch wireless TV that delivers up to a “month of battery life” when watching six hours a day – seems a lot to us. It will also be available with a magnetic charger that wirelessly fills up the battery when in place.
The Displace Mini sounds more useful for the average person. It’s a 27-inch set with, again, up to a month of battery life. At this scale, it starts to seem almost like a TV/tablet hybrid.
