The CES 2022 innovation fair, or Consumer Electronics Show, is now more than 50 years old in the United States and has faced the setback of a new wave of Covid-19, which has caused companies such as Amazon, Meta and Microsoft to cancel their in-person presentations. But their products were already up their sleeve, they were presented and gained repercussion. DINHEIRO selected some of them for their curiosity, comments and real innovation. Many projects are still in the funding stage, such as a digital bird feeder, or others still looking to the future, such as Sony entering the electric car market. The desire to make our entire home interactive and digital continues, but it comes up against the impossibility of interconnecting different brands — although the smart sink and faucet from Kohler, which synchronize water and drainage, for US$ 2,700, are very interesting. It was three days in Las Vegas, with 2,300 exhibitors and more than 800 startups. Check out…
BMW: what color do you want?
Up close, you can see geometric triangles lightly printed on the bodywork, like strands of hair, but being able to have a car that one day is white, and the next, when the owner’s mood is somber, more towards black, is priceless. . By the way, the BMW IX Flow will be priced, yes, and clearly high. One of the most talked about attractions at CES 2022 was precisely the vehicle with microcapsules with pigments negatively charged with white, and positively charged with black. With a push of a button it goes from darkest to lightest (and in between) and even changes designs as you drive. A carnival in B&W. There is even the ecological excuse that the color change helps to regulate the air conditioning, according to the outside temperature.
ROBOT TRACTOR
Even those who do not live on a farm, but know the brand, would like to have a green and yellow tractor from the traditional American company John Deere. Even if it’s just to watch him do the work on the farm alone. Yes, that’s the company’s goal: you to monitor these huge machines sitting in the shadows, with your cell phone. The 8R drives itself, using stereo cameras (i.e. left and right), with the already infamous Artificial Intelligence in the software, and a fully functioning map and GPS. Like many vehicles, after repeating the route, your AI learns and optimizes functions, whether it’s plowing or seeding. The prototype will have commercial “brothers” at the end of the year.
SAMSUNG’S GUITAR: FOLLOW THE POLLS!
Samsung is not reinventing the wheel, or rather the guitar. It already exists and even in the form that presented its Samsung ZamString, an instrument that has the neck and the scale with luminous markings under each string and fret and that light up according to a song, or a solo, facilitating the immediate recognition of chords and phrases. The “re-innovation” is part of the South Korean’s creative laboratory, which will have a digital platform to share music, re-edit and improve recorded parts and make life easier for both beginners and professionals. Traditionalists may turn up their noses, but that helps, helps.
SONY FLIRTS WITH THE ELECTRIC MARKET
One of the few companies that attended the fair in person was Sony. The electric car market is one of the most effervescent and a certain future – and Sony, after presenting its Vision-S electric concept car in 2020, came with a seven-passenger SUV and talk that they are evaluating the possibility of going further. of the conceptual. The whole car, 360 degrees, is monitored by its systems and sensors, allowing autonomous lane change, parking alone. Since all the crazy things are allowed in a concept car, it even reads lips for voice commands when the internal noise is too loud and the sensors don’t hear anything.
GPS COLLAR + FINGER SUCKER DOG
It’s one thing for your dog to run away, another for him to have a tracker — and another for him to be embedded in a collar that has algorithms created by Artificial Intelligence and that monitor your pet’s vital signs. The charming Invoxia has it, it uses a GPS and everything can be seen on your cell phone. Another pet curiosity presented at CES 2022, but plush, and absolutely “disruptive”, is the kitten-puppy Amagami Ham Ham. It only does one thing: you put your finger in its mouth and it sucks. According to the Japanese who invented it, this gives comfort and helps the “owners” psychologically. OK then…
REFINED SMART-WATCH
We also have watches at CES 2022. The Falster Gen 6, from Skagen (sub-brand of Fossil), has gained a new version, improving its already beautiful and award-winning smart-design. It uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform, has a more efficient battery and is faster to charge, and with Google Assistant it becomes more than just a watch, monitoring your functions, schedule and showing — without you asking — self-help phrases to improve your day. For $295.
A TREMENDOUS 4K PROJECTOR
Projectors are definitely not dead as many companies are releasing products with 4K resolution and more. The refined and discreet PXI Pro Hisense sits under the screen and projects in this way, unlike those that hang or sit on a table in the middle of the room. You can put a screen to receive the images or simply point to the wall and get an image of up to 3 meters wide, in such 4K and with a speed of 60Hz, for game fanatics who don’t like to see fast scenes blurred. The price is his size: $4,000.
BEAUTIFUL HEADPHONES, IN BEAUTIFUL COLORS
The idea of JLab Go Air Tones wireless headphones is to offer various skin tones, from light beige, through other nuances, to dark brown, so that they disappear in your ear. They last eight hours on their battery and have an IPX4 resistance against water and sweat like the most expensive AirPod from Apple, but much cheaper: it costs only US$ 20.
DIGITAL EATER FOR BIRDS
Hummingbirds and other birds will love it — and your porch will be enchanted with the Bird Buddy, a smart eater that comes in yellow and blue. It warns you when food is running out, but what makes it smart is the fact that it warns you when the visitor arrives, has an audible and visual recognition of the bird among thousands of species — and clicks a photo, in case you missed the warning on your cell phone. With a small upgrade, you can connect a roof with solar panels. For $200.
RUN, YOU’RE OUTDOORS, BELIEVE IT!
The idea was for LG to show its flexible OLED screens — and what flexibility! If exercising in front of a TV or tablet is already more enjoyable, how about putting three screens in front of an exercise bike up to the top of your head? The radius is 500mm, or 500R, in technical language — the most radical curvature on the market, according to the inventor. With the continuous image, the feeling is of greater immersion, at least in theory. But it will not be enough to have made the screens: own films in this format will need to be produced. Depending on LG, she bets that this will catch on and well.
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE TO HAVE A SMART EYES?
While some are after eyeglasses, whether they encompass your entire head or just your front, Mojo Vision continues to develop smart contact lenses. Science fiction is still in an evolutionary stage – if glasses mess with the human being’s sensory capacity, imagine something already built into vision. With more than two years of experimentation, the company is now aiming for the fitness sector, with partnerships with Adidas, for example. The idea is for the athlete to see real-time data while playing the sport, without having to look at a watch or something.
AUTONOMOUS DRONE
Everything has Artificial Intelligence. Even the American Skydio drone, called 2+. He
it can be piloted autonomously, but the idea is not exactly that, because one of the pilot’s graces is precisely to guide the quadcopter through the sky. The assistant is called KeyFrame and it exists more to facilitate the flight while the person below focuses on filming what they want. Thus, complex strokes are made smoother and the images come out more interesting. Everything is adapted from technologies already used militarily, of course.
The price will be close to $1,000.
FOLDING NOTEBOOK
It’s a bit scary to break, but bending the screen of a notebook has the feeling of being in a scene from the movie Blade Runner (1982), which advanced many inventions. Asus and its Zenbook 17 Fold have a screen of this size, 17 inches, touchscreen with Windows and 2.5K display. It can serve as a tablet, folded up with a keyboard on the bottom, or stand up as a monitor. The object of desire is yet to be priced and is expected to be released in the second half of 2022.
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