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welcome to CES in-depth this very special edition fit the last edition for CES 2017 it's a good that field I'm Brian Cooley joined again by CNET senior editor my personal physician Scott Stein happens to be an anesthesiologist don't you talk about my life we've been in Las Vegas for fedora the jokes over after this you can go back to normal while I go to sleep five long days and today we revealed our top picks for the best products of the show this is are the ones that want us over here at CES but that have real legs not just G wizna stu them so we can do this a year from now and look at it with you when we come back here next January and say you know what those products all did pretty well now if you're wandering the halls taking briefings and lots of strange and sometimes bad smelling hotel rooms and out in parking lots even we are now here to distill it all for you first up laptop Scott and we have Dan Ackerman here with hi mr. laptop mr. Loftin and you are sitting in front of the most amazing this is not three discreet monitors this is one unit this is one laptop this is the Razer project Valerie and it's a concept piece it's a prototype and it's a big 17 inch gaming laptop and the lid is extra thick because there's two extra monitors inside and the way it would work in a final version is you'd press a button or use a software command and these two screens would come out from the side and arrange themselves and you have a multi monitor display built into a single laptop that's pretty amazing it's pretty wild it's got it's got a video 1080 and it's so high-end graphics I played some games on one of these the other day and it played a game just fine and you just have this gigantic super wide view of what you're playing you know this is I've been to it so far so it's actually really cool to see how the screens work it reminds me very much of the razer laptops but with that added it was funny at the show somebody was mentioning how they immediately thought it made a lot of sense to them and then the first I saw they thought it was crazy but then yeah we're connecting monitors all the time you're connecting tons at the lab and you're doing multi screen gaming there's no setups and maybe it's an alternative to VR my head went on this which is odd being a non gamer I looked at this and thought if they did a little more articulation of those screens so they could also have one of them fold back all the way it becomes a great business tool so you can do a quick PowerPoint at a conference table with will you do an ad hoc meeting with just putting that out there razor it's not your core market by any stretch but you know it's an idea we can put your email on one and the spreadsheet on another thing on another yeah great great machine for not just gaming but everyday use me people think three months three monitors is some huge luxury until you use them and then they become indispensable unfold this on an airplane without the extra legroom so make you buy an excess seat yes believe me yeah I want to see that with like peel off OLED screens that become like the wallpaper see now you're really going up in there all wireless yeah you stick them where you want a sheet of post-it notes see networking for you now here's another one Dan that you brought over and you get this guy back awake this is the Dell Inspiron I 5 7000 it's run 1517 there's a weird space there ok and this was the opposite of that this is this is super you know prototype a concept D high-end this is super practical you can go out and buy it if not now very soon very inexpensive it's it's Dells basically entry level gaming laptop and they added a little bit of game reflet to some red highlights to it and they've got the new Nvidia 1050 graphics card which is the new part its main street if they're kind of less expensive one but still really good and they pack that in there with a new 7th gen Intel Core i5 chip for $7.99 and if you want to go get a gaming laptop that will play pretty much any new game at pretty high detail levels at full 1920 by 1080 and you don't want to spend more than 800 bucks I started around here it looks so badass from the back with these it's pretty much isn't it and they got the cooling outlets here it doesn't look like a budget laptop but it's so much less expensive than that level performance last year would have been then they Vivek what a lot of car designers do these days this looks like the exhaust outlets on a lot of hot cars there's no way that's a coincidence are you of course and they bring up a lot of stuff from the Alienware in the XPS lines the more high-end lines they bleed it into this Inspiron line so it doesn't look like you know your budget mid price laptop yeah nice build quality feels nice ok good laptops were actually pretty exciting at this show yeah a lot of cool gaming stuff which I always like to say I know thank you very much Dan thank you all right good deal all right Dan Ackerman they're getting us excited about laptops in two very credible ways one futuristic prototypical don't know the price yet really want one on the other one a great value or right now and available so it's great and way under four figures love that practical next up TVs LG really wowed us that means him this year as well as me but Scott Stein's but in love with the product we're about to show you now our own brian tong the inimitable bt is standing by at the LG booth in the main hall here at CES to tell us all about the LG w7 for the first time at CES the show is about a thinner TV not just a bigger TV BT you've heard about LG's w7 OLED TV this wallpaper TV right here I'd nauseum here at the show but every time we see it we do not get tired of it this thing is still just amazing it is the most beautiful TV we have ever seen during the entire course of CES and again right this is their wallpaper TV it's 2.5 7 millimeters thin and then to really add a structure to it right they had to get that frame on it that made it three point eight eight millimeters now in a second you'll see it peel off right we have this ribbon there you go huh that is your TV you can put on the wall of magnets and only weight 8 pounds even my scrawny little body could put this up on a wall right you don't have to melt it anymore I've been connecting down to the sound bar on the bottom Dolby Atmos sound bar this television supports 4k HDR do you know Dolby vision HDR 10 this is TV to get and really the standard that we're gonna see it set the bar now for all television manufacturers moving forward this is the hottest thing here at CES I love it so much and again like just look at how beautiful that thing is there's a reason why we have made that we have called this the best thing we saw and again LG dropped this on day one the ferti note of the show so I'm gonna throw it back to you guys you guys can gab a little bit more but one thing that I want to leave the show floor with is this guy VT Thank You Man $8,000 we've learned will be the price now that's for a 65 inch I think and they make several sizes I think it makes a 60 65 and a 70 if I recall they have a few in that large size range not cheap now but actually not I mean in a way not super expensive as some people might expect 8000 is not ultra insane it's just in say normal insane but it's not prototype pricing right no a $30,000 yes real product pricing and I don't know maybe it's just till I hung a TV in my house recently or I didn't I had someone else do it that's right yeah and that so it was like you know 40 pounds and you have that pass-through and you have to deal with it although I deserve someone that will break up box but not as nice as that but you got to find a stud to mount the mount thing on right screws in just right and that's holds why people back from doing a really elegant mount of any TV they buy they end up often using a table Stanga it's just easy or they have to hire someone for a couple hundred bucks right to come in and do all that work which is an impediment this kind of thing here we mean that magnetic background frame route it just clips onto the wall and you from what I can tell you don't need to find a stud you just put this thing onto a sheetrock wall and just click I think we really used to even imagine that in smaller sizes like we didn't talk about that but what do you start making monitors and other things that that used to no stick on walls yeah so then you put something at the office or you're traveling here and you just you know create your little space stick things on an back of an airline seat there's a market for that too yeah and we are oddly enough with all this talk about fairness we're leaving out the image quality which is OLED it's as good as a TV gets this is the son of the best TV we've ever reviewed yeah the curandero are the best TV that we like right now the current LG OLED and this was just more amazing and dramatic so it's coming off of great DNA and great lineage let's catch a freighter bending it I wouldn't I wouldn't struggle and tweak it too hard yeah once you're that little crack sound you go oh there goes eight grams that's true staying with LG for a moment they had a new refrigerator as well the smart insta view fridge a follow-on product to last year's which had a remember this video door that you would knock on and it would suddenly go clear right right they've got they've they've really supercharged the information abilities of what goes on when it's not clear and it's an actual interactive screen and we kind of rolled our eyes a little bit about the fact that they went to make it webOS now yeah you know it just pipes be coming back all the time and we were joking like you know webOS here it doesn't it really now it's gonna be in a family member next you know some sort of robotic dad yeah whoever it might be it's going to get custody or something well so that was really cool but it's also Alexa compatible so that was the really important news like everything here except my left shoe is all become Alexa compatible here at CES and this was another one of the product but that makes absolute sense to make everything at least compatible with Alexa as well as multiple other platforms right and you know I was giving one of the tours here and around showing that off and you know my first thought is I wouldn't want to get one of these fridges and then I got a lot of people who disagreed with me because over a couple at least two were passionate and said that first of all the idea of going shopping and and reordering things which they don't really go so much into but you know that is something that we intriguing and then the if you're going shopping the whole idea of the snapshot inventory of and I for some reason I didn't think about that I thought about going to the fridge and turning it into a screen but it's when you're away from it knowing what's in your fridge and inventory ago I why did I buy more milk that was ridiculous they've added cameras to this one for this year is that right yeah so we can show this they didn't have it last year Samsung beat him with that it has a snapshot of the content okay so it's got the snapshot that's where you can actually see the contents as video on the front door without opening the door but also you can do a translucent white something a magic wind you have two ways to look into the glass door now with your eyes or with a camera view right right so it's a I think is it's intriguing and I think it's like the idea of I mean no not letting our cold a or sure but but but really the idea of it's like a monitor for your the baby monitor for your food I know I'm like now my mind's justify might start to be a little bit gilding the lily but the core features here makes sense and if I understand it right being less compatible doesn't mean you can just drive it through Alexa but it it can form it can operate as an Alexa is that right or as an echo um it's it's it's Alexa connected but I wasn't sure about primarily to control your home sure about the question and I'm not sure it's ever really you know we talked about like connected devices that is an important distinction you know terms like what you know whether it's gonna hook in as a device gonna be a spoke is this an echo right is this my echo echo okay so let's say with you for a minute this this was very understand we were doing the press conference coverage on this the samsung flex wash and flex dry a new washer a new dryer they have large central front loading chambers but as you can see here they both have an auxilary top loading chamber that is the washer that has what is that about a quarter the size of a main chamber maybe a fifth for doing either delicates or doing small loads yeah and we'll see the dryer in a minute which has something on top as well and you can set them separately and so if you have laundry with different you know requirements you can run four things and we were totally joking about this one too because you have to joke about having a washing machine in a washing machine and a dryer in a dryer nested you know but but on the other hand it's an accomplishment because you don't have to set up a separate system and you know it all runs through one you know source for water our hall managers were very impressed with this it's a it's an appliance innovation more than putting smart in you know it seems like it's it's it's an actual physical engineering innovation right tend to see a lot of software innovation here but that's this in the appliance category you see a lot of real heavy iron engineering and this is it looks very well done and it seems to have a practical purpose I think a lot of people would say why do I have a light load knob why isn't there just a light load chamber that's much more efficient than just using a big tub a little bit absolutely and as much as I you might think it's silly I would think if it got to an affordable price where it was a feature on many models I think most people would go for it because if you're doing a load of laundry and then the machine is taken then the first thing you want to do is say well what about a backup yeah what about this thing I have to do this little thing we always have want a luxury thing needs special care you put that at the top do it at the same time save time so it's connected Chrysler's go to the cars now completely different area from the garage where the washer lives to the driveway out front where the car usually sits and this is the Chrysler portal concept this kind of opened the show this went out on Monday early in the week they've one of the earlier press conferences what they've done here is you could say it's minivan like I think it's more kind of large urban utility it's got those doors you see there that split open like an elevator door that's kind of interesting innovation I haven't really seen before they kind of go out and wide that's never gonna make it to production but what you do see interesting here is obviously got full autonomy with all kinds of sensors lidar ultrasound radar the full kit of every sensor made and then inside we'll see in a moment the interface is extremely I think well integrated without being too futuristic that you just don't believe it you're gonna see a big strip of led a LED across what we call the eyebrow display there it is the top of the dash that's one huge long narrow wide eyebrow display of course Chrysler is really big on utility they've they were the ones that invented stow and go there's that OLED eyebrow display another huge one is down in the center sort of Allah Tesla it's electric as well now it's a concept but it shows how we're starting to see a lot of things come together in a mature way and not necessarily in extremely fanciful manners the roadshow team was very impressed by this one give it their nod those doors the way they open make me feel like the men are at airport car you know they give me that feel and don't be caught when they close and there's a software bug all right we're gonna like an elevator gone nuts gotta hold the door me my arm back well I'm always afraid of those at the New York City you know think the cab doors that do that that's slide opens they're automatic sometimes they're not automatic whatever I never know yeah you pull out the driver says stop I've got it and then you go back and forth swipe and check having a cell phone call the Nvidia shield this is interesting you know this is in the category of Roku's and Apple TVs and Amazon fire sticks but it does a whole lot more this is a more powerful box than any of the streaming devices we've got gaming and streaming here right yeah and it plays games locally it streams from your PC also streams from the cloud NVIDIA has a cloud gaming platform so there are three different ways to stream if you have a gaming PC there's a third and it has all these connected streaming video apps and services and it connects with Google assistant now so it connects with smart home meetings and it's a crazy good package it already was our favorite what are our very favorite streaming boxes David Katzenberg has been raving about this I used to use the shield a lot and I just thought it was great and so you add all of that in and I think is that right yeah and you can get you know with extra storage if you want that's right and it really is like a litigator 500 gig I think of the two storage levels and you get Eckstein has a whole 16 gig it's almost like you know almost just like a basic no storage you standard like Apple TV or saying Roku and then you go for the larger one for storing lots okay so one has almost no storage one has that's the fact that I have a terabyte yeah okay gamer you get the other one and it has I understand of smartthings dongle to make it a smart things compatible devices yes it does and the controller now is always listening if you want it to to become a microphone to talk to and they have plugs that will go throughout your home they're gonna sell later that will add listening capability so they'll make a smart home network around the Nvidia shield so you really that would be all you need it made me smile it's vibrant it's misting hybrid of a lot of functions that we haven't really ever seen mash together in one think from a credible company right and it also does 4k HDR so oh yeah and it supports a lot of apps like Plex that was an exciting one so it's it's a really great ones coming out right now and I think of existing shield owners get a lot of these updates too so yes some of the hardware upgrades obviously exactly push it out when this goes live the software update will go live for those of you who have the existing shield to get almost all these functions yeah which is which is a nice thing that's good corporate citizenship awesome upcoming real pay let's go put something in our ears doppler labs yes stuck it in beat easier they have something called the here one which you see here that's the case it comes in there's one of the earpieces they're they're cool i got to try these two and I'm excited about this get this product because these go in your ear and what they do is they don't just give you the ability to have wireless high fidelity earbuds that's nothing new but they also digitize the world around you so that normal pass through hearing becomes part of a manipulable digital stack of signals yeah so they can also do a mix of the real world which would otherwise be really hard if you left that analog but they redid you ties it on the fly and say now I can mix I can do anything I can mix game streaming alerts and me talking to you yes and they want to create some sort of like ambient augmented reality for audio but I don't know what is that really level it's yeah and so but and in the now there's an array of microphone so there's spatial you know it's like an array of micros around it so I can listen behind in front and all around and you could start listening behind you if you want to and start listening people it's actually a little bit yeah exactly you can and it works you could listen forward you could create different sound effects they had a one that was just audio filtering is last year now they mixed in music and they they're like air pods and the says you put them in a pack and charge them music battery life left the test a bit you know a little bit less but and they cost more but they do so much more what do we hear about a price do you recall that powerful and doing that much work and appears to be very nicely made looks like there's really good build quality they they feel good they're good quality I tried a prototype so we make sure they look like when you'd better when they come out they're coming out soon and and that idea is going to be echoed a lot of different places it's smart hearing and an enhanced hearing and the idea about a building I mean you're gonna see Apple do that eventually in things like the air pause you're gonna start seeing more intelligent noise cancelling and filtering yeah and I think they're leading the way in where we were calm Hiro bowls or headphones are going next and that's an exciting trend yeah bring us some really multimode DSP to things as opposed to just plain noise cancellation we've had that for years in headphones now let's do some more creative things that can also involve mixing signals having signals pop up with certain priority the AR for audio like your talked about a very good way to describe you mix it with AR and that could get really interesting oh yeah 3d audio is important for that stuff interesting okay that's that that one was very very interested a lot of folks would say ah what's the interesting about an earbud those have a lot going for them here's one that we have never seen I don't think ever on our show stage before a hi-tech breast pump from a company called willow now neither of us know a whole lot about this directly anyway but it's our it is our one wearable peg this is the wearable take yeah so the big win here the mothers tell me is that is very quiet it doesn't have that loud motor going and notice what you see right there on the right that is an integral reservoir for the breast milk so you don't have this separate reservoir with a tube going on and all this stuff you have to do and it's worn underneath a nursing bra so people might not even know that a new mother is wearing this thing and as I was walking around they have some of those some of those lactation chambers here we can go and get some privacy and do though and do the breast milk and I thought this no one's ever gonna know that you're even doing this process if this product takes off and does well and it's able and it's able to sense and and when you need to pop and and I think what's really interesting is wearables returned about with that need to push and work health directions medical dry that's the wearables and find other use cases beyond your SmartWatch banter fitness tracker which we don't have in our lineup because it's been a really quiet year tonight well not a year for that but a week for that yeah it was kind of the spring I'm told 429 dollars to be the MSRP on that one one of the most lovable products here we don't often have lovable products at CES this one was was a robot called curry not the only robot part of a major trend of humanoid esque robots now it doesn't even have arms it doesn't talk it does hear you though with excellent quality it has very interesting personality limited functionality even though it's still coming out a year from now but right now it's basically an audio-video home patrol robot to run around and recognize what's going on alert you to it which is interesting as it doesn't talk but it makes little bleeps and bloops r2d2 esque that gives you a lot of indications of what it's trying to tell you it's kind of like when you watch an old lassie episode and the dog barks and somehow they know what the dog means Oh lassie someone so is in the well I'll follow you it's it looks like those little patrol robots in the first Star Wars movie ran around the Death Star the little the little things that's that's Skinner ground I'm not a Star Wars encyclopedia guy you people know the names are but it's like that it's um it's suggesting how you could communicate beyond voice and we're talking about this before like I think there are other payoffs there Alexa and others are voice controlled but I think you need more than that maybe yours are developing ambient ways of recognition I think so you could put in other technology maybe it's not a head that blinks or eyes that blink but ways that could L incorporate that waking headlights or who knows what that nigga feel developing minor ways to talk to you without literally talking to you if you're like a pedestrian let's say the car will signal to you and as we were talking earlier sometimes that makes more sense to try to be literally human if that goes bad it goes bad wrongly yes whereas something like this it's a little more nuanced and a little more pulled back it's it's got its own domain so who says it's doing it well or not it does as opposed to I'll use not gonna diat when you're talking right now you yeah I'm losing the illusion right your attention words you don't expect it to respond to you and with your family all does yeah interesting yeah we were really blown it sounds probably underwhelming unless you get up close to and actually interact with it a little bit so I won't blame you if you're thinking while these guys are idiots if you get a chance to check out curie i think could be impressed part of a trend here a little humanoid helper robots ok that was uh that was a good run down i think we had as good a meaty show we had a big show not to interfere err we didn't talk about that b know what that is gonna come tons of stuff and how much I was truly exciting here sorry those people that shows up but they know this stuff is coming later and it's all gonna integrate so that to come soon this is not I don't think this is the show for that but it's a show for a lot of other technologies at this point that will begin to all dovetail together we turn out to have a pretty good shopping bag coming out of Las Vegas so there are our top 10 products for CES 2017 thanks for joining me and my personal physician dr. Scott's done you'll never to listen to that stupid line again ok him she's very for mrs. Stein we'll see you again next time at CES 2018 thanks everybody