Gadgetory

okay welcome to CES in depth coming to you live from the cnet stage at CES 2016 I'm Brian Cooley Abele joined by mr. Scott Stein and we're going to recap the major news and announcements from today the official first day of CES 2016 might fool some folks cuz we were really jamming yesterday yeah this feels like it's been the 19th day yes I see yes I was gonna go there is yeah it's amazing we'll see we've talked about so much already and we went some of us even been briefing about some of these things so yeah it does feel like we've known about some of these for a while but everyone's getting to see it experience yes this is interesting yesterday was the press events day that we brought to you exhaustively lots of blog posts and videos and slideshows and are anchored coverage of the press conferences and then CES opens up kind of like for the industry to come in here it's not like it's it's really opening today it's opening the floor today but CES officially started jamming first thing yesterday morning so it's so kind of a split open anyway let's jump right into it a virtual reality something that we're both really interested in VR is big here at the show no surprise there but surprising news came out here today from oculus that just announced finally some specifics right the rift headset the most celebrated of all the VR high-performance headsets will go for six hundred dollars and will ship in April we've got something official we can hang our hat on so yeah it's uh oh yeah I know good feeling about that I mean yeah it was like 600 bucks what do you think oh you're watching you're watching your videos I it's a high price because first of all the development kit cost less and you know but but I else is saying they want to get this people's hands they're saying they're not you know they're trying to cut it as affordable as possible but we solve your headsets last year that were mobile gear VR hundred dollars you snap it into your samjhe phone yeah google cardboard is free it's nothing like this but six hundred dollars sounds high plus the coolest part of oculus are those touch controllers those are not included in this package but they are coming out they're coming out they delay it until later this year so who knows how much those cost then you have to buy the gaming PC oculus that you can get a whole package minus the controllers for fifteen hundred dollars are going to bundle it so they're still standing by that but it's a lot we're in the serious gamer price realm we offer the whole kit once you get a machine that's powerful enough if you don't already have one controllers headset accessory something I'm sure yeah and then who knows how much the htc's will be because I feel like that will be even higher Oh interesting I think so because it's including more HTC vive the other PC platform they want to include everything in that bundle which they have not priced yet you get to lighthouse sensors which shul A's errs around your room sensors that monitor your movements right then you get the two wireless controllers and the headset so you got a thing well that seems certainly closer to a grand yeah I think it could be a grand and that really gets into a high territory yeah very specialized who's going to go in for that but I did look at vibe here the coolest thing about I've is that camera the camera does something that VR should do more often it lets you see the real world yeah when you got that crazy goggle on your head it goes into some sort of almost feels like that vision and which means that you can you can see everything almost like a heat map the the room furniture people so if you get too close to a wall you won't hit the wall and also you'll be able to find the sofa not without having to take that thing off all the time more VR needs that huh and they tweak the hardware it feels better I look ridiculous wearing this everyone does everyone does everyone does you send it being these weird postures looking at strange places yeah it's absurd the controller's it very similar in some ways to oculus touch it's it's amazing to experience but again oh wow I should no one should ever watch themselves on VR VR fertile teta it'll retail bring you right on down all right send the same category vaguely we saw something that's a very different take on AR yes which is the Intel daiquiri helmet this is meant for enterprise use here's an example of it this is an example of let's say a person working in a power plant or a nuclear factory or something and they have the helmet that has a forward-looking realsense 3d camera an Intel product and it's got an AR of display ability on the visor so it can see what you're looking at make sense of it and then animate it in front of you it's definitely you know in the AR camp but so rich and it reaches to the cloud to figure out what it's looking at and then to pull in augmentation in real time that is about the current state of what it's looking at as opposed to stale pre-existing information that may be a lesser headset would do this is it looks amazing I know demo looks great it's similar in a lot of ways to have microsoft hololens has been explored except this is shipping now so they're getting a leg up on that but it's also showing that hollow lens they've already said it's for enterprise for now and that's where it's going to be targeted and other smart glass manufacturers seem to be leaning on that google glass the next version has been settled the enterprise so it sounds like for now smart glasses are going on a price interesting yes has moved away from consumer they don't know what to do with the yet but companies like Carl Zeiss optics actually developing trying to make a class nice reference design idea today yeah I saw it looks like my glasses and they're carving out a space where you can put electronics so it's like they want to if build it they will come maybe they're getting ready for that idea yeah it's still a while off I think before we're putting smart things to see a company that's going into the electronics business without doing anything electronic I means ice is giving you a plastic and glass and sculpted reference frame but they're not doing any the guts yeah it's a start that was funded by Carl Carl Zeiss fully independent company and they're doing this exactly is it's all classic optics they're just carving out the pot I thought that was kind of cool Tesla this apiece me because tech companies don't know how to do that no don't style you need that help they need that help big time so they're doing that ok let's go to well let's switch to the automotive front which would be a whole different haul that be the north hall which is here at the Las Vegas Convention Center the faraday future is probably the most talked about car here this is a long-expected chinese backed electric hyper car that has a single seat that has obviously extreme performance very exotic provocative lines as you can see high connectivity of course what's interesting about this car though a canopy over it but what's interesting bout this car in terms of the auto industry strategy is not that it's electric or anything of that other stuff but the fact that they've made it on what's called a modular platform a truly modular platform they can literally in the manufacturing they can reduce or extend the size and length of this thing in modular slices which is more so than what other car makers do that sounds a little bit in the weeds and it is kind of inside baseball but that's that's a really big topic in the car industry I'm a little disappointed because this is a super pie in the sky hypercar for nobody I like to see you know I get more excited about a Hyundai Sonata than a Lamborghini all day long I'm weird that way I like cars that real people can appreciate and buy and really get use out of you know I dig the supercars but this isn't that category and it's like okay talk to me when you guys have brought this down two or three models to what real people are gonna buy yeah when I was a kid and I was one of the dad to car shows like it was really like things like that I would be excited it's like it about beautiful view is thing it's like a glimpse of the future but yeah this is the total weird taste of somebody out there totally bizarre but it is a huge buzz topic and they've got a big big plant their opening here in Nevada kind of like you know who over the Tesla side another car that came out was the Volkswagen buddy electric concept that flashes back to the old VW classic microbus now to me it looks like a toyota sienna but supposedly I'm supposed to see microbus in that I really don't aside from the badge that's not agree better than the classic beetle our beetle bus no no one took that the Woodstock no I don't think so right it's like a giant Hot Wheels car kind of does San design yeah but an electric effort by Volkswagen it's always interesting to see a German car company do pure electric because they were banging away at diesel for so long as a national industry a lot of them are coming to the electric table the other pure electric of course being detailed here not completely unveiled is available for is a Chevy Volt this is the craziest naming story in the auto industry bolt and volt sound almost exactly the same over a phone connection unless you're in person and then someone says you mean bolt or volt and you say bolt or volt again they still didn't hear it right so then you tell them the first letter you say it with a V well the V sounds like a bee so you still can't tell what they're talking about V&B sound the same volt and bolt soundless and did anybody check this out before they went to market with this I think I'd been secretly confusing them for years 20 a lot of people were not your yeah anyway so let's talk about appliances what do we got there well the one we were talking about yesterday that ridiculously crazy samsung fridge it's okay get it out of my mind I don't you like it yeah it has it as ideas I'm going to like it really what two things I like the most the cameras that are built in that's cool answers a real neat how many times do you go to the grocery store you're gonna buy something extra if you already have it and you don't know what's in the fridge but the cameras will let you log in remotely and see what's in the fridge snapshots not video ah the other thing that I thought was interesting is the the relay or the mirroring of what's on your TV so the TV's on in both places kitchen and dining room whatever because how many times we sitting there cooking and doing this looking through the doorway at the TV because we hear we hear the scene just got interesting and we do this and I still really like the idea I'd oh you could do this some other way but but some sort of central hub where people could have a little white board well family community and I'm on the fence on that still I know it's you guys do another way but I feel like there's still something in that maybe not on a fridge yeah but I still need to put something like that in in the kitchen it's quite a few the family hug our families in it yeah yeah but it's gonna be quite Mele Hubbard I forgot about that it's all right well speaking of cool we've got a very cool announcement that came from LG in the area of refrigerators for this one our own BTW is standing by at the LG booth to tell us about it BTW what's up alright Brian and Scott I'm a one-up you right now you're talking about refrigerators frigerator frigerators I got a refrigerator right here I got my man Matt Matt what's up man what's up how's it going say hi to your mom your dad to love one mom dad what's up he famous he famous you know so this is LG's signature section of their booth and it's really a lot of products at our proof of concepts things we might see in the future but really collect name in the future yep he said definitely know how many times we've seen things here that are not definitely oh man take my word for it so um I want to see that this is supposed to be like one of the coolest frigerators here on the show can you kind of show us some of the things this thing done yeah let's do it man so check it out this is going to be tempered glass here on the front if you double tap it's gonna light up and show you a display just so you can kind of see what's here for easy grabbing this is called a door within a door okay so you're gonna have obviously your beard here and your hard ciders all your stuff that you drink a lot is gonna be here for easy access mine are like orange sodas me too man me too hahaha no and then they moved the display over here so you can control your refrigerator in your freezer temperature right here okay question can I do the little knock knock no one's watching do it knock knock who's there boom you can't do that with your refrigerator alright think so alright check it out you see this little door open light I'm gonna step right here I'm just gonna automatically open for you did you see that Brian and Scott you saw that right that's what I thought they saw let's do it again oh la la it's like magic Matt told me one time but wait there's more but wait there's more check it out open the freezer drawers and they're gonna automatically slide out for you but say you have this one open you're unloading like some things that need to be frozen you give it a few seconds the other ones are gonna slide back flush no can your frigerator do that that just happened it just happened all right hey thanks for your time all right appreciate good guy later bro all right Matt that's one of the things you can find at the LG Signature Series all right we're gonna keep on walking around showing off another concept their dual view curved OLED right it's kind of smooth curves smooth it out we don't I don't think you gonna be using this at home or anything but you can see it probably used in like corporate displays or cool buildings and then we also have over here another LG signature their washer and dryer double loads we're gonna maybe visit this back in a little bit but let's just keep on going this way cuz I got I got one thing I got to show you okay let's come over here so smart appliances big thing here but what about the smartest smartest styla sila Bonet come here just really quickly tell us what this is this is the LG styler and what does it do why is it shaking like a salt shaker well you're watching it shake shake shake shake shake away and I'm gonna do that again shake shake shake all right so it's teams and shakes the clothes all just like this right yeah you're watching it basically it will shake 220 times in a minute in conjunction with using a very powerful true steam generator so with that steam is coming up and it's literally shaking though usually shake together with a curry we're silent are a fine day so much my name you guys stick it here cnet com for everything more CES 2016 we'll see you guys okay welcome back to CES in-depth live at the scene that stage at CES 2016 with the Jolly Neapolitans Brian Cooley and Scott's done recapping the news of the show so far next up a topic near and dear to your wrist yes wearables wearables and it's it's it's hard for one person to cover we got a lot of people out there looking at stuff at this show the big one that everybody was following was Fitbit Fitbit made their announcement there's a market leader in wearables yep and and they announced a watch and I think the reaction was a little mixed it's called the Fitbit blaze okay two hundred dollars this does a lot of what the Fitbit surge did last year the the Obama SmartWatch the one that he uses it to get fit does not have GPS but it pops out it has a variety of accessories is almost Apple watch like in the sense that it's competing for style steal the other and that's a trend throughout the show materials are big at the watch category this year gets notifications it gets just some of them by design it also has some coaching a little bit fitstar which was acquired by them they put a couple of coaching routines and maybe we'll see a little more of that that's the thing that's missing in wearables but you know some people wonder what am I going to do with this why is it trying to keep you with watches other people think well I don't really want a fancy SmartWatch I want to watch it does fitness in just a bit more just a little more notification yeah so might actually do quite well it's interesting yeah maybe we're trying too hard with SmartWatch too rich too complex too many different use cases is trying to map to as opposed to just give me a little bit that we can all relate to yes and the fitness piece and a fashion piece and I think we're a little a little bit away from the super connected watch it's a remote maybe wireless networking that's all of the discussion yeah it's like early smartphones right now that stuff could be great later when homes get more connected yeah now you're out in front of its out in front of its skis potentially at this point the other trend is more brands getting into wearables it's all about fitness at this show under armour huge brand yeah announced a ton of fitness tech health box and connected running shoes you had the shoes on yes I wear shoes yesterday these are these have a chip inside you do not charge them you do not replace the battery you can't replace the battery they last the life of the shoe which for a running shoe it's also about 450 miles these checks tried under armour has a new app that launched this week that is meant to be more of a complete hub interestingly it allows a lot of other hardware to connect with ings and Fitbit in apple health that's a scale the health box is a scale heart rate strap fitness band and they also have heart rate headphones coming out so they're just throwing the ball you've got a pretty complete array right now of a fitness platform not just products and they're going a little bit after apple health kit they're trying to unify the fitness pieces in one platform yeah and after Fitbit and they're trying i think it's reminiscent of what nike had done before the question is you know is it all going to work people do people want all that stuff is it too specialized or two it's all you know they're really just covering all the bases bye I think some of the ideas are interesting some of them you wonder like the fitness band while it has a lot of stuff they're just so many fitness bands so many that aren't terribly differentiated know and at some point you just want to say I'm going with a popular platform which is why I think Fitbit is doing right very well there's a well-known highly regarded brand it's not an upstart so they don't need to do that on the other hand when you've got a well we got regarded Brandt you have to reposition it now under armour is known for soft goods for fabric products yes all of a sudden its electronics brand surprisingly no smart clothing that would be the thing i would think on doing a viper bait leave no smart fiber excess skin and others do that yeah they are out of that mean that's interesting yeah maybe in the future it's time to get back to that okay um let's talk about a little bit of drone activity now the most interesting drone was the parrot disco because the parrot disco is not a helicopter style model it is a fixed-wing airplane style model so this is a it's about three feet wingspan kind of big boy yeah it's big big old foam wings just slide on rear pusher propeller and does up to 50 miles an hour which is absolutely terrifying for something that is consumer grade that's not all right I'm sure it'll be fine you control it as usual with you know with a mobile device and they have an optional dedicated joystick thing you can latch on to that it'll go two kilometers in range and then it will hunt its way back so it can't fall out of range and if it does somehow get out of range it knows to come back to your GPS position which had always timestamps when it starts to go on a flight you launched by just throwing it in the air it's it's pretty cool because the main differentiator from this and the various roto copters is that you get angles which roto copters don't do they're always flat right this guy can get swooping angles and and you can easily track I love this you can easily track a car and shoot video of it so this could be the best thing for shooting scene that auto videos is actually a plane as opposed to a drone we can easily out drive I'll be cool it's got 45 minutes I think a battery minutes is a lot so it could it could hang in there yeah so look at that one tell you right now okay let's talk about one a couple wacky things sensor wake is the smell alarm clock that's what I want that's what I've been that's what I was looking for the question is what smell do you want to wake up to right people need I want to reveal that or other might very personal I hope they don't hey this is so what looks bad enough yeah good old CS for these types of things like we look forward to this these are the sink cartridges you put in there smell crystals one of them's coffee um one of those money I love that one is the smell of money so you're like you know you're like you're like a big baller like BTW that's what you want to wake up to in the morning is money here goes which ones that one this is gonna be that's the coffee and it puts out the the scent no sense gonna wake me up i don't get that all right there's no powerful smell respond maybe both and if it may be a smoke would nice yeah yeah give me a give me the house burning cartridge that's the one I want yeah I want that one terraforming wake up you're a flatulent dog can I put that one in there you know I love ozone I don't feel does it also buzz does it also do other no one I bet it doesn't wouldn't it be great yeah all it does is admit Smith does a condition to you I feel like there be a strange conditioning effect if admit if it fails it does yes ah clever pet either the coolest or the cruelest technology we've seen yet a game console to make your dog infuriated has to push a button to get fed I'm getting the HSUS on this so fast yeah this is not going to market so let's see look at this hamster I mean this is like a strong enough experimented to get fed he's gotta play some idiotic game where you kiddies a game console feed the dog I don't know who what is the valley like who wins with them know exactly it's actually kind of cool because if you know dogs and cats old to play games with things that light up and move around open up the feeding and it can mod it can modulate their feeding a lot of animals eat super fast when they're left alone because they have anxiety and they've been they they puke it all up because they eat too fast this is a nice way to modulate their intake we just saw any kid people could do it too if Raja your human feedings are you kidding there's no way they're not having these at the staff dinner on Friday oh yeah we're all gonna have one each check the only way to get also drunk by then we cave and operate the thing it's only three buttons and we're still starving right it's been test here's cooling wait there's a third button oh that's the problem dimensionally alright so that about covers the highlights and the lowlights yeah of the best of tech on take what we call that the best wow it's the selection it's alexa defenses luncheon that's right it was a it was a little sense of tang i come back at nine a.m. pacific tomorrow we crank things back up again well I'll see also I seem a live demo of that smell alarm clock ashley askin is going to be up here as I believe she's got the demo of that will also have the CTO of an adult video company talking about that and how that industry is trying to penetrate a tight market and sees the low-hanging fruit why is that written in there plus we'll see it from me printer that prints circuit boards and if you're just jumping into our CES coverage there's a lot more to see at CES cnet com goodnight Scott we'll see you tomorrow