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TVs are getting twisted I'm Bridget Carey and this is your see net update happy 2013 update is back from winter break and it's time to gear up for the biggest tech show on earth the Consumer Electronics Show our coverage begins Sunday on cnet.com but there's some news already coming out about a few products Samsung is teasing that it'll show off a television with a new design at the show and on its blog it posted this photo of a TV sitting vertically instead of horizontally and this photo is either implying that it's a picture quality is very lifelike or Samsung is hinting at a transparent display where you can see what's behind it we saw Samsung showing off see-through screens last year with a 22 inch transparent LCD panel that was for retail stores expect to also hear more about 4k TVs it's an ultra high-definition resolution that only makes sense if you have a really huge TV screen and that's why Westinghouse will be showing off 110 inch 4k LED TV now LG and Sony also have 84 inch TVs with 4k and they start at 20 grand don't count on this replacing your current 1080p TV in stores anytime soon the same goes with OLED screens on TVs we'll see more of them but those price tags will be high say around ten thousand dollars LG also unveiled some news about its televisions at the show the company said LED backlights will be standard across all LCD TVs so it will no longer make TVs with florescent back lights and there will be more smart TV add-ons like an upgraded remote that has natural voice recognition and some TVs we'll have a camera expect something twisted from Samsung there will be demos of a bendable smartphone screen and a bendable television screen these flexible screens will have a higher resolution than the ones we saw at last year's CES but Samsung is not the only one working on this concept LG enoki I have recently demonstrated prototypes of bendable screens today's app to watch is a new iPhone app from Facebook that parents should be aware of it's called poke those who have the app can send a short message photo or video to another user and it and ten seconds after seeing it an app like this might encourage users to send inappropriate or embarrassing photos without fear or as a way for teens to hide sexy from their parents since the messages quickly vanish but this isn't mission impossible these messages do not really self-destruct anyone can take a screenshot of the image you sent and the video messages are stored in folders in the phone's internal storage so it could come back to haunt you later the same goes with a similar app called snapchat that's your tech news update you can get links to all the stories I've mentioned on our blog cnet.com slash for our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey