Deep Sound Original · The author | Chen Wenqi
Color-changing BMW cars, self-driving tractors, rings that detect diabetes and high blood pressure, smart bird feeders....... Perhaps the only place in the world that can see these cool technology products at once is CES.
On January 5, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) finally returned to Las Vegas after two years. In 2021, due to the impact of the epidemic, the exhibition was cancelled, and CES changed to an online event for the first time in more than 50 years, and the number of exhibitors shrank sharply, only a quarter of that of previous years.
This year, the organizer CTA (Consumer Technology Association) insisted on re-holding offline activities, but due to the proliferation of cases caused by the spread of the Semickon variant, CES regulars including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Amazon, Meta and other CES regulars said that they had withdrawn or not participated in the exhibition offline, and there were many fewer media reporters at the venue. CES, which was scheduled to close on January 8, was shortened by one day and ended on January 7. This is a big blow to the economy of the CTA and Las Vegas, and many manufacturers have lost an opportunity to display products and negotiate business.
The venue is not as bustling as before, but the consumer electronics demand has exploded during the epidemic, and CES is still the world's most cutting-edge electronics show, a guide to future technology trends. "We all need to take some risks, and without risk, there is no innovation." CTA President Gary Shapiro wrote in an article in the Las Vegas Review.
Steve Koening, vice president of market research at CTA, identifies four areas of technology to watch:
Transportation: electric vehicles, micro-mobility solutions, smart logistics
Space technology: business opportunities, communication technology, tourism
Green technology: new energy, food technology, smart city, smart home
Digital Health: Wearables, Mental Health, Tech Healthcare, Service Solutions
In addition, concepts such as NFT and metaverse also appear frequently at cess.
Consume hardware
notebook
Every year CES, is a big scuffle of new laptop products, this year, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, HP, Acer, Razer, LG and so on have new products.
Lenovo released new products such as yoga series laptops, dual-screen notebook ThinkBook Plus Gen3, ThinkPad Z series, and the new Rescuer game Book Legion 5, and updated the full range of commercial PCs. ASUS launched the "Fearless" 2-in-1 OLED touchscreen notebook, which uses a keyboard and fuselage separation design. Dell released a new XPS 13 Plus notebook, and its alien ALIENWARE has also upgraded its laptop family and peripheral ecosystem, including 4 to 17-inch AMD high-performance game books, 34 curved quantum dot OLED esports monitors AW3423DW, and so on. Even TCL released its first laptop, the TCL BOOK 14 Go, with a 14.4-inch IPS screen and an ARM-built Qualcomm Snapdragon 7C processor.
Dell XPS 13 Plus
Razer released razer spirit blade 14, razer spirit blade 15 and razer spirit blade 17 professional game book. What's even more interesting is the peripherals: the Razer Enki Pro HyperSense Professional Super Sense Esports Chair has a complex mechanical mechanism designed in the chassis section to allow it to swing with the movements that occur in games and movies, providing an immersive feeling.
Razer's Project Sophia is a highly customizable gaming table that supports 13 separate modules for a variety of personalizations, allowing each module to be specifically configured with components for a specific set of use scenarios, such as auxiliary screens, displays, tablets, mixers, external capture cards, etc., and can be switched in seconds.
Razer Enki Pro HyperSense Super Sense Edition gaming chair
VR/AR/XR devices
TCL has partnered with Thunderbird to release two AR eyewear products, TCL NXTWEAR AIR and TCL LEINIAO AR. The former is a consumer-grade XR glasses weighing only 75 grams, while the latter is the industry's first binocular full-color MicroLED holographic optical waveguide AR glasses. Panasonic's subsidiary Shiftall has released VR headsets with resolutions in excess of 4K, which are expected to go on sale in the spring of 2022. Sony has finally revealed more details about the next VR gaming device, the PlayStation VR2, which will be equipped with eye tracking, a 4K HDR display and a 110° FOV, but the release time, price and so on have not yet been announced. AR contact lens company Mojo Vision announced new financing and identified the sports scene as the first stop of application, establishing cooperation with sports brands including Adidas, Trailforks, Wearable X and so on.
Qualcomm and Microsoft announced a collaboration to develop a new customized Snapdragon AR chip.
AR contact lenses from Mojo Vision
Mind control headsets
French startup Wisear has built a mind-controlled headset that allows you to cut a song or answer a phone call with your brain. Tiny electrodes in headphones can record brain and facial activity while using AI to convert signals into control. Wisear aims to export the technology to headphone manufacturers as well as AR/VR designs.
"Red, green, blue" three semiconductors gathered
Red Factory AMD issued a number of CPU products and 10 new graphics cards in one go, from the Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor, to the latest Ryzen 6000 series mobile processors with GPU performance soaring by 100% and allowing laptops to charge for more than 24 hours. There's also an entry-level graphics card, the RX 6500XT, which costs $199.
Green Factory Nvidia officially announced 4 graphics cards, including the strongest performance graphics card for the C-side, RTX 3090 Ti, and officially launched omniverse, a meta-universe creation tool.
Blue Factory Intel announced the 12th generation of Core high-performance mobile processor H series based on Intel 7 process, and is expected to launch more than 100 related devices from partners such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Razer. In addition, Intel announced that it will ship Intel Iris Graphics with the code name "Alchemist" to OEM customers, which covers several discrete graphics platforms that are fully designed by Intel.
Smart home
Samsung entered the metaverse era
Samsung teamed up with South Korean internet company Naver (LINE's parent company) to create a virtual booth "My House." Users can enter through the Zepeto APP and experience 18 Samsung products, custom furniture and home appliances, and personalize the design space in the metaverse.
Virtual booth My House
Of course, in the real world, Samsung has also released a series of new products from mobile phones and home appliances to monitors. In terms of mobile phones, the Galaxy S21 FE is available and will be available on January 11, priced from $699. In terms of television, Samsung launched three series of TVs: MICRO LED, Neo QLED and "Free Home" Samsung Lifestyle. Among them, MICRO LED, as Samsung's most advanced display, has a screen ratio of 99.99%, and generates light and color through 25 million micron-sized LEDs, showing the depth of color, clarity and contrast of the picture. Samsung has equipped smart TVs with an upgraded smart center that allows users to quickly enter games and display, buy, and trade NFT digital artwork.
MICRO LED
Samsung also released the BESPOKE series of vacuum cleaners, washers/dryers and laundry care machines, portable projectors, Odyssey Neo G8, Smaryt Monitor M8, UHD Monitor S8 displays, and the home control center Home Hub.
L'Oréal home hair dye sticks
L'Oréal launches Coloronic, a handheld home hair coloring stick that allows users to choose their favorite color from 40 shades on the site, and equipment and hair dye kits can be delivered to their homes. Load the color box into the device, comb from the root of the hair to the ends of the hair, after evenly coloring, wait thirty minutes, you can rinse, complete the hair coloring. L'Oréal plans to officially launch Colorsonic to U.S. consumers starting in early 2023.
Intelligent bird feeder
A company called Bird Buddy focuses on smart bird feeders. Not only can you remotely control the feeding, but you can also observe the birds in real time through the camera. In order to add fun to the use, the app will also intelligently identify birds and let observers know about the encyclopedia of a certain bird.
AI smart bed care sleep
Sleep Number's smart beds, built-in sensors, use AI to better respond to the user's body, monitor a person's overall health, sleep health behavior, chronic sleep problems, and provide real-time insights and recommendations for sleepers, their caregivers, and doctors. The headboard also has ambient lights and recessed white noise speakers, and users can manually set the wake-up time, and the bedside lights up to simulate the dawn.
Car traffic
BMW "color-changing car"
BMW exhibited the iX Flow, a color-changing concept car using "E-ink" technology. The "e-ink" of the coating contains millions of transparent microcapsules as thin as a hair strand. Each microcapsule contains negatively charged white pigment and positively charged black pigment. Depending on the setting chosen, electric field stimulation causes white or black pigments to accumulate on the surface of the microcapsules, giving the body the desired color. E-ink technology has also been applied to e-readers such as the Kindle, but the current paint can only change the gray level, turning the car into black, white, gray three colors can not be colorful.
According to BMW, iX Flow allows owners to change the body color according to mood and scene, and can improve the running efficiency of the car, such as in winter, dark color helps the car absorb more sunlight. The model was not mass-produced.
Sony announced the construction of cars
Sony showcased a new all-wheel-drive seven-seat electric SUV prototype, the VISION-S 02, an upgraded version of the 2020 concept model. 40 sensors are installed on the vehicle, and the goal is to achieve L4 level autonomous driving. At the same time, Sony President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida announced that he would establish Sony Mobility Inc. in the spring to commercialize Sony's electric vehicles. Is "Sony Dafa" still good in the car manufacturing industry?
Sony electric SUV
Hyundai X Boston Dynamics plans to "electrify" everything
Hyundai has come up with a concept of "Mobility of Things (MoT)", which is to increase mobility for inanimate objects. To this end, Hyundai has launched a product, Plug & Drive (PnD) robot module, which can realize platform manufacturing robots. The goal is to create an all-in-one integrated mobility solution that provides intelligent braking, steering, in-wheel electric drive and suspension hardware in a single module. The system is designed so that the single-wheel unit has a steering drive that rotates the wheels 360 degrees so the vehicle can move in any direction. PnD also integrates LiDAR and camera sensors for autonomous movement. Hyundai showcased 4 conceptual models including Personal Mobility, Service Mobility, Logistic Mobility and L7.
One-person mobile cabin based on PnD
Chevrolet electric pickup
GM unveils an electric version of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup to take on Ford's F-150 Lightning. The new car will feature a dual-motor layout with a combined maximum power of 673 hp and a peak torque of 1063 Nm. 0-96km/h acceleration takes just 4.5 seconds, and the low-end model will reach a maximum power of 517 hp and a peak torque of 833 Nm.
The new car will offer four-wheel steering technology and support 350kW of fast charging technology with a maximum cruising range of 643km. The pickup, which starts at $39,900, will be officially put into production in 2023 and is now open for pre-order in the U.S. market. In the next few years, the competition in the field of electric pickup trucks will be very interesting.
Autonomous driving into farmland
In terms of autonomous driving technology, agricultural equipment manufacturing giant John Deere is not to be outdone.
John Deere introduced an autonomous driving system on its 8R series tractors, where farmers can remotely monitor and control the tractor manually or using a mobile app, allowing the machine to complete tasks such as sowing, spraying fertilizer and harvesting crops autonomously. The autonomous driving system is equipped with six pairs of stereo cameras, three in front and three in the rear, providing a 360-degree view of the tractor's surroundings. After the image is fed back to the on-board computer, the system can identify objects in the tractor's path and determine whether the tractor should maintain its direction of travel, or bypass obstacles, or stop running. The company plans to start selling the tractor this fall.
3D hovering instrument cluster
Japanese startup Imuzak has developed a display system that allows information to become a floating image in 3D. Automakers could embed a 2.8-inch screen on the steering wheel, above which Imuzak's microlens are located, to make holographic displays. In the future, if sensors are installed on the lens, these hovering pictures will become touchable and have a wide range of application scenarios.