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welcome to the scene that live stage at CES and our countdown of the top 10 our cell products from CES 2016 i'm brian coulis joined by ambassador scott steiner ambassador from czech lambier yes nice to have you here and thanks to spend another day here translator who can translate our languages to each other sir a small creature that can that's the next CES we've been in Vegas for five long days as you can probably tell and today we revealed our top picks for the best products of the show this is what won us over all of us the 90 editors - these two here at CES after wandering through all these halls taking so many briefings in strange hotel rooms and out in parking lots and all up and down the halls we distill it down right here Scott we start with drones we do it's a popular topic and we have we actually have two on this list we're gonna get to the one that like the crazy pic don't we this is the crazy yeah the crazy another one big weird CES pic yang which was that personal quadcopter that you would actually go inside personal quadcopter you ride in yes it's an air it's an aircraft yeah it's meant to be sort of a future of aircraft and this should have what are like 23 minute battery life that's right yeah be careful where you fly and and this is uh you know meant to have safety features in terms of being automatic piloting yeah ashley is scattered they're looking at the inside of the cabin yesterday it's a single seater now as you pointed out there's a sort of a very worrisome combination here a 23-minute battery life which is fairly compact and be 11,000 foot maximum height yes that seems to like if those two could collide badly where you get to the top and you don't have enough battery to get back down to the ground yeah you want an active warning system or a parachute yes or the next version right far out wait wait for yes Version three it does look like a Blade Runner car though so I like that it also looks like vaporware if you want my opinion yeah yeah it's it's a holy haul it ain't gonna happen not the US FAA is never approve that thing but nice try big CES ideas Wow year from now it'll be the best-selling private aircraft in the world exactly it's hoverboards who will buy them so in terms of thing you might actually buy the unique typhoon hh4 hexacopter yes so this is this is got six rotors in it and our drone entered rush Goldman was saying this is the one that you really liked it's it's well-designed it's compact fit into your backpack you can attach a camera easily can also it's compatible with intel realsense 4 for automatic navigation and piloting and to avoid collisions by waving a really good view of other things objects and other drones in the area you know real sense is that 3d camera technology from Intel that gives you a much it gives a machine a much better ability to sort of figure out what it's looking at not that there's an object there and no more detail that's a future not just in drones but in robots the ability to have these cameras and in cars to scan around you that technology is is becoming very very real and it will enable with with artificial intelligence these things to really navigate very easily on their own with or without us we hear a lot about DJI and parrot they seem to get all the headlines around drones one on the lower end one on the upper end but this is an important name to watch they're a serious credible maker they're not some new startup that doesn't have any you know any market share it's it's one of the big makers out there now in the TVs they're in later on today at 4 o'clock Pacific I'll be up here with David Katz Myer our TV guru and we're gonna do a special dive into TVs themselves but we asked cats one TV you gotta pick what's it gonna be and it is the LG G six OLED TV now we have recently and they've been putting it in all their advertising lately called the LG OLED that was already on the market the best TV we've ever seen in picture quality period so this is gonna be the follow-on product on that now of course this is OLED in 2030 2016 we're talking pricey stuff many thousands of dollars still very pricey and this is OLED that that's layered onto a pane of glass so you really can't get much thinner than this nope and it's a it's an ongoing train at this show to say OLED is extremely flexible you put on glass you're seeing curving ones rolling ones sets we saw rolled-up we talked about yesterday like a portable thin-film panel the see-through one is ether one and you feel like maybe these could be sort of just eventually be posters you put on your wall you know like the TV yeah the spray on TVs Fanta that's great idea right spray on TV way to man that's cool TV in the can you get that and a can of Cheez Whiz perfect weekend you could totally do that is there now a larger TVs are always kind of the you know the the easy sloppy cell here at CES everyone loves to see a TV as big as your car and we had one here as well a hundred and seventy inch television from Samsung but it's not one screen it's a modular set of docked screens that are amazing because you can't see the lines where they dock now we have a big by giant dock screen here in our stage and if you look carefully you can see where the modules click together it's uh you know it's a retail display but this looks like one TV but it's several screens put together that's amazing this is basically like the sort of stuff you might see outside more stores or stadiums or outside or CNET booth and if X number of years or plastering hotels future of display tech or if you're extremely wealthy we just recover your home back to your home you've got a bigger and bigger wall so I've had some TV real estate what's interesting about this though is that it goes to a sweet spot if I understand it right in the TV business is really hard because of what they call yield panel yield they basically grow silicon LCD panels and if they have a little bad spot that's it you can't fix it you have to limit your cut size to a 65 or whatever making one 70s the yield is almost impossible that's why there's so much money but here you can take a bunch of easy to make smaller panels the yields on those are very high and just click them together now they can make giant TVs in theory much lower cost not dirt cheap but this is actually a cost savings not just a size growth you could tile your entire home in televisions you can tell you it's our floor in television your floor your ceiling your baby everything your bed your family our room the entire room floor ceiling and all walls is all screen that would be cool imagine we get to Ray Bradbury's you know the belt you can actually create your Hall Dec or your your fantasy room we think so anyway yeah we think it's fantastic tell me about wearables we had the Fitbit blaze yeah wearables kind of had a I think a bit of an off year at the show nothing that exciting it's probably cuz a lot of smartwatches are in a kind of an in-between period they're selling but you're waiting for the next Apple watch or the next version of Android where a lot of those backed off but Fitbit biggest player in wearables yeah announced a watch now the reaction was mixed but still Fitbit is the dominant force here and what they're showing is that a its fashionable or more fashionable they're trying to make something you might want to wear all the time and not just have it be a fitness tracker and it's also a little more like a watch and you're seeing smartwatches get more fitness regular watches try to get Fitness from big watch companies and fitbit's going in here with a five-day battery life yeah so if it's simple and something you might want to wear all the time that's what they're going after for 200 dollars by simplifying the the function they were able to lower the horsepower a little and get that long battery life because they've been a battery breakthrough this has got to be about pulling down the performance a little yeah but doing just what it needs to do exactly and with a couple of notifications you know this has some phone notifications but did by design they said not too many and it's got some coaching they acquired fitstar so there's some coaching workouts that's something people are talking about how does that actually work does it feel comfortable we haven't used it yet sometimes it's you know like the Microsoft band just tells you to do push-ups now now do this and you know it's like so it's like someone just yelling at me on my on my wrist a really dumb drill sergeant I love the bus just buzzing and saying right now you want saying that there are ones that will see how you move so I hope that it's a little more intelligent in terms of the wave okay I'm not trying too hard though and another interesting wearable kind of we know where else to put it so we'll go on to wearable are the here h ER e air buds our Eric Franklin was really into these these are smart adaptive audio contouring earbuds now we all know about noise-reduction headphones most of us have them as we flying all that first of all these are very tiny obviously cordless and wireless inside is powerful DSP and micro amplifiers that can make changes to the incoming sound coming into your ears to do either noise reduction or selective noise reduction they can say I'll take out jet engine hum I'll also take out voice I can learn and take out crying baby I can take out the sound of a bus when you're on it versus just having one single noise reduction slice all the time which is pretty dumb at this point in history it is I got to try these and they were really cool and I think these are like the future tech of what you will bring to CES yeah to 2017 and onwards saying the block out the noise maybe you build these into headphones and you start having something a little like I said a little smarter yeah then the noise canceling that you have something more I could equalizer we're smart equalizer for that it's adaptive and constantly learns and not some graphic EQ you're sliding up sliders all the time because we don't know what to do with that the the DSP should figure that out now they're doing 10,000 beta users before they then open up to another tranche of something closer to production which I believe you're on the list for I'll be nice Oh Franklin you get to play around with you know also how you hear things and hear Bulls people are talking about hear Bulls here at the show yeah the movie her was a couple of years ago but people are still talking about that maybe the ear is the place to go not just for noise cancelling and that but for audio cues maybe for smarter notifications cuz again how many times you want your wrist to buzz so it's on your track yeah and to be honest I mean here we are every broadcaster in the world we're still wearing we got these things in our ears the go down to where's mine here we go they go down a wire to a totally annoying and heavy pack like this is called an IFB everybody who's on the air wears an IFB it's an interactive feedback our fold-back queue so people in the booth can talk to us this is 1970s technology heavy clunky disastrous I just want that little thing we just saw everything Wireless put it in the ear and all this dreck goes away I mean that's so it's got vertical applications perhaps as well as you know for the average consumer now let's talk about pcs the Lenovo ThinkPad yoga line has been extremely popular the last couple years it's one of the hottest right after you know that all the mac books now we have them with an OLED screen yeah and this is something again Olleh Olleh we're hearing this everywhere but OLED in a laptop I know it sounds like a buzzword Dan Ackerman or PC editor was really excited about this it just looks better it's really crisp it could even potentially help down the road with design power Metro and who knows what but right now you're talking about putting this in the already very popular design of the yoga and it's a ThinkPad so it's maybe a little more business design it's super crisp it just again what can you do in a laptop that's interesting there's still room to improve the screens I mean you can just tell the quo we're showing it here you know on a non OLED screen and you're watching it at home on a non OLED screen you can almost tell how good it is especially here's an a/b I think with a with an LCD and an OLED and like you say thinner lower power consumption oh that has some native advantages that laptops like to have in them and then this is the one that you introduced me to that I am totally excited by if there's anything on this list that I want to buy yeah it's this one the razor blade stealth gaming laptop but also ultra portable depending where you take it well it's a 12 inch laptop and so it kind of feels like it's super portable yeah and then you plug this into its own graphics tower and this works via USB see the sort of thing that we were talking about with with possibility and Thunderbolt a while ago that's a Sean Hollister CNET trying it out and people don't want carry the glop top around but you still want to play games there's the thing you dock it to the giant graphics engine that you have when you need it when you need it when you want to play games there's still games you can play without it yeah but you know it looks big but that's the whole idea it's meant to be a serious gaming PC right but you don't to take all that around with you and razer has a lot of crazy pie-in-the-sky concepts but their PC business has created some great stuff great laptops oh yeah because gaming is also good at doing video editing and editing and video rendering and that sort of thing more or less so assuming you can get one of this with a pretty good process for a pretty good SSD storage and then dock it when you need to go do heavy horsepower gaming or video work which is a very common model in lots of people's lives they want to have a lightweight for traveling and then when they get back to their desk together you know work on a video this is a really cool idea and I think how small can you go will be where you go from here because we're already seeing the ideas of like Microsoft and continuum you know the phone becomes your computer wirelessly but we start seeing the trend will be super small computers you take home very easily connect at home maybe it's a hub maybe it's not but another way of putting the power the horsepower somewhere else that were you actually need it so the cloud is one form of offshoring horsepower this is another way of interpreting the concept of offshoring horsepower so it's there when you need it but not cumbersome right like Docs you just assume you keep on your desk and that won't be annoying hopefully yeah very cool let's go to smart home now in the appliance the smart home category I think we were all pretty unanimous that Samsung may have cracked the code on one of the toughest products to make which is the smart refrigerator not making what is it hard I'm making one that makes any sense has been hard for like a decade and a half the industry's kept trying this one kind of worked out pretty well 21 and a half inch screen on the door giant screen but it doesn't try to really be an all-encompassing computer which never made any sense it has some logical ideas like being able to mirror content that you're playing somewhere else in the home have it mirrored on to either audio or video on to the fridge so it follows you around that way messaging and photo sharing I'm not quite as cogent on that cameras like you see right there inside the fridge will take photos of all of its contents every time you open and close the door so you constantly have a latest snapshot so when you're at the store you're not sure if you need carrots or not just log into the fridge and look and see if there's any in the crisper and then buying a second bag that way because I don't really like carrots a whole lot but sometimes you need them so I want to buy as few as I have to that's the thing is to get the dream of the carrot and you really yeah I like the cameras on the fridge it sounds crazy I like it looking in the back of the fridge I want to see yeah I want to see what's in there that's my that's my dream is to know what's in the back that might be so much about your home just sitting here with you 350 thousand miles from it what's in the back the back of your fridge it's where things go - yeah it is there's some stuff right mine no different there's yeah there's strange bad a mystery bags I want the fridge to help me help me out be fair better person I don't know about the front part of it you know the screen and the ordering and everything else but everybody's been excited about this everyone it's seen it's been excited about it groceries by MasterCard was the other thing in the screen where you can shop right there as you look in the dorms they are out of that close the door and go buy it for deliveries for grocery delivery service and mastercards powering it it's a trial in New York City so the idea here is what they call contextual commerce you can do anything on his phone obviously and that's been the big trend lately it's just buy it on your phone while you're right there but sometimes it makes sense to build the commerce into the device or location where it first occurs to you like buying groceries at your fridge door like paying for gasoline from your car key fob things of this nature and so all of a sudden I think we're kind of splitting away from doing everything on the phone not leaving that but saying sometimes it makes sense to have commerce embedded in the place where it occurs this is like Amazon's button they released a year or so ago where you could mount it by your dishwasher hit it to order more dish water Landro new detergent same basic idea I want like machine learning where this is gonna tell me what other people have in their fridge like the average I tell you you know you're not ordering the healthy foods or you know this is what Kanye has you know in his oh yes you can kind of have you know cribs refrigerator addition right you want to order food like peyton manning just do that create the the pro the pro health set like hit like a profile and have it have it outfitted it's kind like a pandora thing that's kind of weird yeah like that all right let's go to cars now cars and car technology I think the CNET car team I think it's pretty much agreed the Chevy bolt not the Volt bolt with Abby was the belle of the ball not audacious but a real car that's doing really good things pure electric unlike the Volt which is of course the extra range extender hybrid so pure battery electric 200 miles of range $30,000 after federal tax credits as long as they keep offering though which is a big question mark down the road flat floor because the battery is a flat pan so there is no transmission hump front or back so you can slide back or forth across this Tim Stevens made an interesting point about that he goes GM just invested heavily in lyft and they have a car here that's easy to enter an exit from either side makes it great for picking people up and dropping them off in case you pick them up on the right side the street and drop them off on the Left neoclassic New York City well you want me left or right there's no hump to kind of clamber over to get to the other door it's a small thing but it's a nice livable everyday detail so we're gonna see more about the bolt as well at the Detroit Auto Show next week but this is about we know about it's a pre-production sample and those ugly headlights you see are not gonna be in the final car I'm happy to report now VR and AR what did you love in this space uh again at this show it was kind of a whole bunch of stuff a lot of announcements especially in VR as you heard oculus rift AR is around it's hanging in there it's going to enterprise and they're they're looking to smart glasses and you know trying to explore that I think they know that for the average person right now even getting people interested in virtual reality is gonna be more of a challenge no matter how great it looks and we thought then anybody fails so going to AR for a moment Intel announced this daiquiri smart helmet which looks like it's not meant for the average person industrial yeah it's got a visor that gives you a vision of what you see and it's got real sense cameras that look forward to see what you're seeing and interpreting and that's again the use of the realsense camera des Craig has something create something also for now because microsoft hololens also intended for enterprise is still isn't gonna be here yet this is going to come before the end of March according to Intel and it's designed again for an industrial-grade and design and environments that's something that other companies like Epson and those who have made these helmets are trying to keep an eye on it's not necessarily going to look cool but it's got a you got to use it on a site place where you can't use their hands so yeah this could be big for people who need to use that I was I was taking a tour of the entire executive team of one of the largest industrial products companies in the world around the floor yesterday and they said yeah this is the real deal we've been talking to them before CES and we're very interested in deploying this across what may be the largest fleet of engineering industrial technicians in the world so there's something interesting about that there is in Flex when it comes to virtual reality you've heard about the oculus rift now they announced this I think you heard a bit about them for years the it's gonna be shipping there's a $600 price which everybody was going all over the place about truthfully that's not the whole price of the system in the first place you have to buy the PC which has certain level of gaming graphics that even serious PC gamers don't have okay so the total price could be up around fifteen hundred dollars but there's that that's not the only virtual reality platform out there PlayStation VR that's coming and actually I think the best experience of the show was HTC vive and we've seen that that was a collaboration between HTC and valve they've been showing off their stuff since last year they have a new version of the hardware that they had at the show improved visual quality and they said mirror correction so it looks crisper but it's like camera that camera now can see what's going on around you and that it activates when you go to the edge of the room there's a room filling VR that uses light sensors laser arrays and these motion controllers and when you go to the edge of that room it'll show you what's in it it'll show you furniture people not the actual you know video stream but kind of a Batman vision render it and bring it real into VR exactly they say they're doing that to reduce lags that's me wandering around seeing that but that is a unique approach the other guys don't do that camera import do they not at all and they need to I think that's going to be what we see next probably not that far off because you look at again intel realsense cameras and these types of things these cameras are out there and you know project tango Google has so I think it's only a matter of time in a short period of time before a lot of these VR headsets put those in could also help you scan the room and not have to put a sensor up next to your TV out looking way of seeing the room and sensing what's around you as opposed to a sensor in exact like these guys which is a little horsey right now looking out also incorporating the room maybe developing something that feels like augmented reality as well yeah starts to blur the line between the two oh yeah they're all gonna blend and you want to get these things down to glasses size so again even the stuff that you see this year you may see new versions next year and this is definitely great for HTC because I guess I look like I really fight breakout product and because let's face it you're not Samsung or Apple you may not be long for this world in mobile phones it's very--it's and whittling down we're into our third year now where all of the profit and smartphones is going to two companies I think this will be our third calendar year you can't do that forever so HTC and many other makers that did really well on smart phones for a while they need to find their next hit where they really kind of stabbed with something strong and this might be this might be their their strategy for them I think so it's expensive but you're gonna see a lot of everything a long race here it's a marathon for content and everybody just wants to try this out and keep going so I bet it's all going to start to blend yeah very interesting sector there okay so there you've got it those are our 10 or so best products here from CES 2016 total of 12 if you really want to count them thanks for joining us thanks for all of us here at seen that myself and ambassador Stein we're the global leader here at CNN technology news and look forward to seeing you again here at CES 2017 but don't leave there's a lot more going on here today at the CNET stage here at CES 2016 in Las Vegas thanks everyone