The electronics show to beat all industry shows, CES 2024, owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association, opened its doors at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 9 to 4,000 exhibiting companies from across the globe and up to 130,000 attendees.
Editors from Future publications, Residential Systems, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, and TWICE cover the CES show floor from every angle. Throughout the week, I'll gather some top stories I think will spark the interest of our commercial, Pro AV readers (and myself).
Our own AVNetwork senior editor, Wayne Cavadi got a special tour of the Vegas Sphere. He had a ball!
SCN Finally Goes Inside the Vegas Sphere ... and We Had a Ball
"After nearly half a year of covering the Vegas Sphere from afar, I finally got to go inside what is being dubbed as "the world’s largest, high-resolution LED screen which wraps up, over, and around the audience to create a fully immersive visual environment." Let me tell you folks, I had a ball (and no, I do not feel one bit sorry for the dad joke)."
CES 2024: How Tony Stark Can Save Pro AV (and Other Trends) from SCN's Wayne Cavadi
"CES 2024 is in the books. Every year, I travel to Las Vegas as part of Future's Show Daily team, covering press conferences and cool new products," said Cavadi. "While the show is still largely about the consumer—no one is installing the Spider-Verse EV I saw on display in the Pro AV world—you may be surprised how much the show has evolved toward enterprise and commercial AV."
20 best gadgets of CES 2024: the top TVs, smart home tech, laptops and more we saw at the show
Once TWICE had seen as much as we could, we got everyone together to discuss the absolute best gadgets of CES 2024, ranging from new products that are being released imminently, to fantastic (but very real) prototypes that show a vision of the future that gets us excited about tech all over again.
The Resi Weekly Top 10 – 01.12.24
Welcome to the Resi Weekly Top 10, where we recognize the most visited stories on residentialsystems.com over the past 7 days and count them from 10 down to 1.
Friday, January 12 - it has been a wild ride
Residential Systems, TWICE, and TechRadar Pro Announce Picks Awards Winners for CES 2024
Residential Systems, TWICE, and TechRadar Pro are proud to announce the winners of this year’s Picks Awards, the brands’ annual program honoring the best and most influential consumer technology that was at CES 2024.
The staff selected winners based on the impact they’re expected to have on the CT and custom installation industries.
Samsung Promises AI for All
“This connected world is about to become even better,” said Jong-Hee (JH) Han, vice chairman, CEO and head of Samsung’s Device eXperience (DX) Division. “AI has the power to make life easier, more inclusive for all, and smarter, better experiences will redefine how we live. Samsung’s broad portfolio of powerful devices, along with the pursuit of open collaboration, will help bring AI and hyper-connectivity to all.”
Kohler's new smart shower technology nearly made me indecently expose myself at CES
The Anthem+ digital showering system offers a luxurious multi-sensory showering experience, with users able to customize the lighting, sound, and even steam output, as well as the water temperature and flow. I was so smitten that I nearly hopped right in, throngs of onlookers be damned.
I just saw the next generation of LG Display OLED TVs at CES 2024 — and they blow away Mini-LED TVs
It's all thanks to LG Display's 3rd Generation META 2.0 technology. LG Electronics might be the one making waves with its newly unveiled brighter LG G4 and M4 OLED TVs, but most of those improvements inside of those TVs are due to the hard work that LG Display has put into this year's OLED panels.
Coolest TVs at CES - the Video
The LG Signature OLED T, aka LG's transparent OLED TV, just made its surprise debut at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. The see-through screen is a total show-stopper, switching between a normal-looking OLED TV to a transparent display with a separated contrast layer that rolls away with the press of a button. Is the best TV at CES 2024? We'll have to see, but it's certainly made a strong first impression at our hands-on demonstration at the show.
Sonus Faber's Suprema speaker system costs the same as 16 new Tesla Model 3s
If you're serious about music and happen to have $750,000 burning a hole in your pocket, Sonos Faber may have just the speakers for you. The Sonos Faber Suprema promise to push the boundaries of "audio excellence", and each system will be built to order; if you have three quarters of a million dollars handy, you can order yours today, because they've just been unveiled at the huge consumer electronic show, CES 2024.
Check out the full article here.
The best smart home tech of CES 2024: fresh ideas from Philips, Samsung and more
Smart home tech has long been a mainstay of the Consumer Electronics Show – and that's proven to be the case again at CES 2024. From sci-fi smart locks to more eccentric ideas like AI pillows, the show offers a glimpse of some of the tech flourishes that could be heading to your home this year.
Too Fun to Not Share
I haven't met TechRadar's, US editor-in-chief, Lance Ulanoff, but I want to thank him for today's entertainment. "I just had a demo of the world's first wearable oven, and I was dumb enough to stick my hand inside."
"A backpack burned me at CES 2024, but only to prove a point [he's okay!]. I was handling Willtex's new Willcook, which may be the world's first wearable oven.
You read that right. The Willcook is a backpack that can cook food inside of it. Why would you want this?" Read the full story here!
Check out more of Lance's escapades from CES here.
JBL Live 3 Earbuds Case Sports a 1.45-inch LED Touch Display
JBL has announced a new range of earbuds at CES 2024, called JBL Live 3. They come in three different designs, but they've all got one really big new feature in common: JBL's touchscreen Smart Charging Case, which is designed to make it much easier and faster to access your audio playback and your earbuds' various features. Think of it as like having a smartwatch screen right on the case.
Read the full review by TechRadar's Carrie Marshall
From Tom's Guide: Best of CES 2024: The 23 top gadgets
We all knew going into CES 2024 that AI was going to be a huge theme, but artificial intelligence was so prevalent at this year’s show it became dizzying. It seemed that every single product had AI inside, from AI bird feeders and snore-tracking pillows to TVs and even NPCs within games.
So which gadgets actually lived up to the hype? Tom’s Guide’s editors met with dozens of companies and went hands-on with lots of new products to bring you our Best of CES 2024 list. LG’s transparent OLED was all the buzz for its stunning design, and our editors loved the new Weber Summit Smart Grill. But smaller companies impressed, too, such as Rabbit R1 AI handheld that can automate all sorts of tasks.
AI With Heart: LG’s “Affectionate Intelligence”
LG started CES off strong Monday morning at its press conference, revealing the company’s roadmap for 2024 and beyond. The most notable announcements focused on responsible AI, including LG’s vision for integrating AI into its TVs, electric vehicles, smart home ecosystem, and more. Read the full article here.
Sony CEO at CES 2024: “Creators Are at the Heart of our Business”
Kenichiro Yoshida, chairman and CEO of Sony Group, said that Sony has always placed people at the heart of creativity, and that “the company has always been committed to being a force for good by empowering creators to turn their creative sparks into stories…creators are at the heart of our business.” Read the full article here.
Sennheiser launches new high-end wireless earbuds crammed with next-gen tech, and a surprise pair of headphones
As much as we love the Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3 earbuds, time has moved on and many of the best wireless earbuds at the premium end are now better. But Sennheiser has updated its Momentum buds to make them even better. And there are new Accentum headphones and Momentum fitness buds too. Read the full article here.
Samsung just revealed a transparent microLED TV at CES 2024, and I saw it up close
Samsung just took the wraps off its entire 2024 TV lineup, but had a surprise in store for CES 2024. Though the company's microLED TVs haven't earned major headlines in recent years of the annual tech trade show, Samsung showed it's still all-in on the category with a new transparent version of the display. Read the full article here.
AI Pioneers Insist That It Is ‘Here To Stay’
People’s opinions of AI vary widely from the possibility of creating a utopian machine-assisted world or precipitate a dystopic machine-dominated future á la SkyNet from the Terminator movie series, with millions of possibilities and potential in between. But two AI pioneers made one thing clear at the “Great Minds, Bold Visions: What’s Next for AI” conference session moderated by Rajeev Chand, partner and head of research at Wing Venture Capital: AI is here to stay and will only become what humans make of it. Read the full article here.
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