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hey what is up guys I'm Kip EHD here coming back at you from Las Vegas and who would have thought the coolest booth at CES 2015 would be a car company so obviously there's tons of stuff at CES that's really cool obviously to check out and there are more videos on that stuff to come but when you think of hi-tech you rarely think of the ancient hundred-year-old car industry and I've talked about stuff that I guess Tesla's done in the past year or so but BMW this year had a legitimately awesome booth at CES worth checking out so starting with the BMW i8 totally dope looking car if you couldn't already tell if you haven't seen it I have some more stuff with that coming up soon but if you don't already know the i8 is one of the most badass hybrid cars in the world with a combination of an engine that has the gas tank and an electric motor with batteries that need to be charged now I've showed off wireless charging of phones in the past but leave it to BMW to introduce inductive wireless charging in their car so they're working on basically driving up onto an inductive wireless charging mat in your garage and you're charging the battery at almost the same rate as if you were physically plugged in and here's another thing the BMW m4 so this is their flagship sports car right now essentially and they had a showing with these concept lights on the car oh LED tail lights and laser headlights which seemed a little bit weird but there are a ton of things that this can become useful for the olla taillights could theoretically be any color you want and create any pattern or any color and any frame rate which is crazier basically using your tail lights as a display on the back of your car but they looked really sharp the only thing I'd be hesitant about is if olee tail lights would be bright enough obviously they're doing this demo in a dark demo showroom where everything's supposed to be dark already but I would hope that they're also light and visible outdoors and regular light but still they looked pretty dope and then there's the laser headlights they turn on automatically at night and they're on all the time to eliminate 650 yards in front of you now you don't think you want your headlights on full high-beam all the time seems like a bad idea but there is intelligent lighting involved sensors decide where to highlight dark areas on the road in front of you and it'll also intelligently cut out a patch of the laser headlights to not blind the car on the other side of the road in front of you or an oncoming traffic so this is basically the way headlights should be disclaimer Laser headlights aren't exactly legal in the United States right now but they would totally should be so this is just a concept that's basically a year out for BMW over in Europe still awesome they also showed gesture controls from a sensor in the car roof for the BMW idrive system they have a backseat tablet that's meant to be able to control the heating in the car or other features before you even get in or after they have a new key fob for the i8 hybrid that will remotely let you check on how that Wireless charge doing or will check on another car status stuff like your door locks all of these things are future plans that are down the road for them pun intended but the best-looking demos of this booth for them were from the pretty tame looking BMW i3 I know you see the i8 and it looked super sharp and their m4 is such a sporty car but the i3 has a lot of tricks up its sleeve first there was a crash avoidance demo where the car literally stops itself before an obstacle even if you're stopping on the gas and then there was a final trick that just kind of blew everyone's mind summoning the thing from a SmartWatch so there you go guys it was pretty surreal sitting in the backseat of a car that was driving itself with no one else in it but it was a lot of fun to check out what BMW had at the booth this year and I got my eye on them especially with that i8 and look out for the future i8 video I have coming later on this channel either way thanks for watching stay tuned for more videos and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace