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hello and welcome back to cnet's live coverage of CES 2015 I'm Bridget Carey here with Jeff Bakalar and we're coming to you from the cnet stage at the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center this is the second day the show floor is open to the public we're getting more hands-on time with products and I've also seen a few interesting headlines popping up late yesterday headlines that include pom-poms back pop mouth can't stay away from mom lives at CES guys at CES and gets resurrected at CES that's how it works yeah cuz TCL announced that they want to bring back palm in some form or fashion they haven't said what they actually bought the name palm and Unseld yeah I was on sale along with webos LG grabbed the web OS an operating system for their televisions in the checkout aisle it's just right there for the picking and now TCL is saying you know what get ready we're gonna see what we're gonna do with it and we're gonna open it up to people's opinions on what they want to see because palm has a lot of emotional baggage you knows people care a lot about that name and they want to do something with it it's been through a lot that brand and it's interesting that even after all it's been through there's some willing party be like I'll take a bet with that yeah see where that gets me and I like that they're sort of like crowdsourcing its its legacy they're like all right let's see what you want it palm has to be something though in your handheld so after it can't be anything else can't wear anything unless it's on your hand it's got to be some face palm I like that all right well install also had a lot of a crazy weird Tekkit it's an announcement keynote last night among them lots of gesture controls facial recognition software going to a new level and new chips to put in future wearables that are so tiny they have just a small circular battery that can go into rings it's so small so in cells always one if you checked out their booth they always are encouraging people to invent new things with their chips because they've been trying to get into wearables fast because they relate it into the game and now they're just rushing in full speed with all sorts of different things you can wear but I would say at the at the presentation they had they had this jacket that can help the blind sense what's around them because there are cameras on them now they showed a lot of things you can do with these cameras and one of them was put it on a jacket and the jacket is essentially seen that you're near me and it's going to give me a little vibration to know hey someone's getting close to this side of you so that's pretty fascinating it's amazing it's like the first time I've seen something I mean it's there hasn't been a lot of technology in that specific sort of department and it really is potentially game-changing for for that specific use case so it's kind of kind of fantastic yeah they were gonna put this camera in your home so you can get a facial recognition and you can even unlock a door by just approaching the door right it's kind of back to the future well sure home right welcome home Jennifer um also I think to really spend a lot of time talking about you know how their mobile processing is such an important detail to their you know road map ever like we said everything that's wearable uses wants to get a low-powered CPU driving the functionality in a device like that you know the smaller you can make it the less power it demands because that's a big problem with wearables the battery life on these things is usually terrible get that chip small get it powerful and have that voltage be so low it's it's really going to be interesting to see what applications is used yeah if you if you a jacket with cameras on it that but better that sensitive it's definitely going to be something it doesn't last very long but maybe they can get that to be somewhere to a new level smart home another big topic here absolutely cameras we're talking a little about what Intel was doing with being able to have facial recognition software there is one smart home camera that I don't know if they have it right just yet Nedim oh yeah has one that it can sense who was home by I guess you would just sit this by the door somewhere right and it'll see who and your family came home and keep track but it's also supposed to keep track of who left problem is you can't look at at it to see the say you're gone because then it thinks you're here so it just kind of guesses that you're gone because it hasn't seen you for a while right so is and the first time I heard about this is like all right well maybe they like have facial recognition and then back of the head recognition or something like that because you're gonna be walking away from this thing but I don't know any time there is something that is specifically documenting when I'm in my house and out of my house even if it's just information that's supposedly private to me I'm nervous and this sort of stuff is what freaks me out at sea yeah I'm nervous too but then we already can do this pretty well with geofencing on our smartphones and when people are using that with apps already so I think they're trying to solve a problem that is Mick causing a bigger problem right yeah I'm trying to understand where the security label comes into this I don't secure with with camera knowing what i'm watching you at all oh I want to watch my home not the other way around well something a little more peaceful it's probably the new plant sensor from parrots finally how many plants have I killed how many prints a few killed killed a couple actually I'm like it's like plant homicide in my house so check this thing out it's a described you know exactly how this thing works are you legit basically stick it into the soil of whatever plant you tell the planet is so it knows what kind of nutrition it should be getting based on the kind of planet isn't you pop in a water bottle on top here they have a water bottle just screwed on top so when you're away like for a week and see yes you won't kill your plant right and it'll just uh you know give it a little squirt only the best water for those plans smart water of course they have a pot that can do the same thing too but um you know the pots more of an investment they haven't given the price yet for these things or when it's coming out exactly the next version should be you know like there's a lot of people who say you you should talk to your plans you should say like nurturing things I got there gonna be a like video chat with some sort of like constant positive emotional you know speech to a plan I think is the next iteration people are doing that with their dogs and their drop cams why not they're talking to their dogs might as well talk to your absolutely i'm on board and only smart water none of this poland spring nonsense only smart water for these plants what else have you seen Jeff I'm really impressed with well impressed is maybe a generous word I want to talk about the sony walkman oh yeah so I over the last couple years I've become somewhat of an audio file I am very passionate about great sounding music no compression I'm a big black head and I'm taking a look at this zx2 and I'm like wow they they really went kind of nuts OH with this Walkman it's eleven hundred dollars I don't know if even if you love music I just heard exactly to justify spending 11 hundred dollars on a music player seems kind of crazy there's other products on the market that will do similar things like even my g three can play flac you know it's not really something that it struggles with so I wonder where the justification to spend eleven hundred dollars you know I get it it's part of the Sony ecosystem and there's you know let's talk about high definition audio now and all right I think consumers are going wait that's the thing I mean even though people really are into it we're into music should i think in general we're just now getting to the getting to just touch on it right and I mean you know if you value fidelity you're probably familiar with something like flack already and you no doubt realized already you don't need an eleven hundred dollar portable device to do something like that and now there's they're streaming flac services like title they're coming on the scene so it's you know it's one of those weird things like where does an eleven hundred dollar proprietary Sony player coming to all this but they can do it and that's why it's here because they just want to show that alone it's a lot of we're doing it cuz we can I CES for sure for sure but you know got to keep that walkman alive absolutely and also hodes pulls a lot of emotion just like palmed I mean you know that Brits that brand it's that legacy brand that we all grew up with you know it's it just won't go away for better or worse um USB has gotten an update at CES as well it's funny that the small awkward things are so exciting anyways but but it's the most useful so like explain this we were talking about this yesterday and as I as the words were coming out of my mouth I was like you're too excited about usb Jeff but I am because 3.1 is an upgrade to 3.0 and you know you have the faster speed faster read right but what's really fantastic is the aesthetic no more but you have to fumble around in your USB port because 3.1 has no prejudice against up or down left or right just plug that in there it does your fine whatever direction you're facing because you like I was telling Donald bail yesterday it doesn't matter which side it's always going to be the wrong one when you plug that thing in so now you don't have to worry about any of that 3.1 is here to save your computing convenience I embrace it with open arms it's a great thing when you have an Apple product now all the chargers they just work both ways right so I guess it's coming to USB people would catch on to that USB 3.2 magnetize that and then we're done just just just walk away that's it what plug it in walk away you know um this whole day has been pretty interesting with a lot of the quirky gadgets being shown off yeah I got I got to take a walk around there what washing machines are the big thing again to which is which is a awkward because it's CES you don't typically think of a big washing machine to be the big thing for sure people are still buzzing about that it's the LG dual washer right where the bottom wash within a wash a dual load wash inception yes right you can um actually buy the bottom washer separately you don't have to buy the two-in-one right and you can attach it to other different types of LG washers when it comes out later this year but they didn't say the price but it sounds like it could be like just three hundred dollars for that bottom one you should want it to I mean you're gonna wash your bottom you should wash your top also I think should come together like that's hip check let's see how it's handy CES tip and then Samsung has a sink inside of its washer everyone's putting something in the washer so they have like a sink on top that just sits there to hand wash things you know not seeing a lot of screens and the washers or screens in the fridges anymore I think we're walking away from that tech for the sake of tech right and maybe now it's just a little bit more useful for I always thought though that there was there was a platform for using a screen in refrigerator where you can have this sort of display that tells you all the food in you fridge like if everything just had RFID tags like your baloney no yes first of all yes that goes without saying never but I really wish there was a way to like tag all my food and then the refrigerator says I'll Jeff you don't here's all your ingredients here's what you can make you make some chicken parm you can make like a lasagna situation he's gonna do that Amazon's gonna do that I'm sorry I'm gonna figure out a way already my refrigerator gonna figure out a way like we will order it for you thank you for all your information don't you think this is the year that maybe perhaps all of these smart appliances will break through in a way that has just sort of you know maybe gone from this little niche sort of enthusiasts consumer profile to something that I think a lot of people are now interested in because it's broken into the mainstream yeah and they're also talking with more main hubs in the home with Google's nest a lot of products came out saying that they talked with nest and Ness is that smart thermostat and they also own the the smart smoke detector to but a lot of separate companies are saying you know what we'll be able to talk to nest whether it's your washing machine it's your home security camera it's your door lock so it knows when you come and go that'll change the temperature and now everyone's also talking about Siri because even though apples never at the show they always somehow become a topic of the show where a lot of companies are saying we're going to have our smart home products work with Siri and we see that in a garage door opener we say that in a in a door lock and also what was the other one there's there's always like a couple um ah sounds half of my head but anyways everyone wants some air filtration situation yeah well that's it I think I think we hit a lot of the main job is going on is going on we're gonna be back tomorrow and on Thursday we're going to be coming at nine a.m. pacific noon eastern we're going to keep highlighting the latest buzz of the show so you got to keep watching to here at CES cnet com today and tomorrow for live coverage from our show stage thanks for joining us up next we're going to have the focus motions you