CES, the world’s biggest technology exhibition, has kicked into full gear, with a number of big companies showcasing the latest products aimed at shaping the future.
The Las Vegas showpiece, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, has become a platform for major announcements, innovations and, at times, the unveiling of some of the tech industry’s weird and wonderful stuff.
We take a look at some of the highlights from the first day of CES 2024.
South Korea’s LG Electronics, one of the world’s biggest appliance manufacturers, unveiled what it called the world’s first transparent OLED television, the LG Signature OLED T.
How does it work? The TV’s Zero Connect Box wirelessly transmits 4K images and sound to the OLED T. The TV also doubles as a piece of furniture that blends in with its environment thanks to its transparency, or as some sort of digital aquarium.
This isn’t the first time LG has introduced a unique TV. In 2021, it rolled out – pun definitely intended – the Signature OLED R, which has a rollable display and is priced at a whopping $100,000. LG has yet to announce the Signature OLED T’s availability and price – which we’re quite sure is also “up” there.
Samsung is further leaning into the artificial intelligence game with a revamped version of its Ballie robot. The rolling machine, which resembles a tennis ball and was first introduced at CES 2020, can now act as a projector while following you around.
Aside from communicating with it and issuing commands, Ballie can interact with other smart home devices and, apparently, check on your pet and even “feed” it.
On the hardware side, Samsung announced new visual display products and digital appliances, the Galaxy Book4 laptop and the new Spatial AI service to boost interaction between users and its devices – all underpinned by, you guessed it, AI.
Samsung, the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer, is scheduled to introduce its next flagship smartphone line-up on January 17 in San Francisco, expected to be the Galaxy S24 series, with more AI on the tab.
In addition, the Seoul-based company gave a sneak peek of new concept displays that are bigger, rollable and more foldable, dubbing the last one as In&Out Flip, because it “can be folded inward and outward”.
Samsung is expected to unveil these new-generation displays on Tuesday at CES.
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