CES 2023's Wildest Highlights: Stunning Cars, 3D Laptops and Shape Shifting Screens - CNET

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CES means 3 things: A batch of hype, a batch of sound and a batch of dazzling caller tech. The world's biggest user electronics amusement is officially on, with media time kicking disconnected successful Las Vegas connected Wednesday. We're live connected the CES amusement floor trying it all, sifting done it each to bring you the coolest, wackiest, astir innovative caller tech we spot.

So far, we've gotten a glimpse into what companies similar Samsung, LG, Intel, Nvidia and Dell person successful store for 2023: beautiful TVs, beastly gaming rigs, an 8K projector and even a futuristic conception instrumentality oregon two. Beyond this year, we've gotten the large quality that Sony is making its ain car, scheduled to deed the roads successful 2026.

We're conscionable getting started. CES rolls connected until Sunday, truthful there's plentifulness of weird and wonderful tech to beryllium discovered yet. Consider this your tl;dr for CES 2023 -- if you work lone 1 CES recap (but wherefore halt there?), marque it this one.

Sony's archetypal car is coming successful 2026

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EVs are large business, and Sony wants in. The electronics elephantine is teaming up with Honda connected a caller marque of electrical vehicle called Afeela. The Afeela logo appeared connected a constrictive surface oregon "media bar" connected the vehicle's beforehand bumper that tin besides interact and stock accusation with radical extracurricular the vehice oregon passersby specified arsenic the upwind oregon the car's authorities of charge.

Unlike the car Sony showed disconnected astatine CES 2020, each those years ago, this 1 is really hitting the market. No connection yet connected pricing, but Sony said its Afeela car volition deed North American roads successful 2026. Japan and Europe volition follow.

BMW's conception car doubles arsenic your buddy

BMW's one Vision Dee conception car.

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Technology tin beryllium truthful impersonal. BMW's one Vision Dee hopes to hole that. Using blase AI, this conception car ditches the servant schtick of Siri and Alexa. Instead, it hopes to treble arsenic some your car and your friend. BMW's one Vision Dee is an EV sports car with an exterior of 240 e-ink panels. You tin usage those panels to programme a integer look into the car's grille -- due to the fact that it's an EV, the ventillation grille's typically supply isn't really needed -- oregon alteration the cars colors astatine the click of a button.

The BMW one Vision Dee is for present conscionable a concept, but immoderate of its features volition trickle retired to BMW's existent cars. BMW CEO Oliver Zipse said, for instance, that the AI-powered HUB exertion the institution enactment into one Vision Dee volition travel to existent cars successful 2025.

This foldable besides slides

Samsung's Flex Hybrid conception folded connected 1 side

Samsung gave america a look astatine a tantalizing mobile instrumentality concept, the Flex Hybrid. As the exemplary supra shows, the near broadside of the Flex Hybrid tin fold, similar the Galaxy Fold, portion the close broadside tin descent retired to widen itself.

The conception comes courtesy of Samsung Display, not the Mobile limb of the South Korean megacorporation liable for making and selling phones. But the press release showing disconnected the conception promised it'll bring to CES "innovative OLED products of each sizes, small, mean and large, to supply a glimpse into the aboriginal of displays." Samsung isn't the lone institution tinkering with the aboriginal of phones -- spot TCL's 2020 scrolling display -- truthful ticker this abstraction for much flipping, folding and scrolling devices.

A laptop successful (glasses-free) 3D

Asus glasses-free 3D show astatine CES 2023

Images leap disconnected the surface of this ASUS laptop -- not literally, but close. Its OLED surface produces a 3D acquisition sans glasses, overmuch similar rival Acer's akin IPS version. The OLED surface matters due to the fact that the exertion promises a visibly crisper 3D rendering. Asus's 3D panel, aimed astatine creatives, uses eye-tracking to nutrient the 3D experience.

A TV with nary wires... and nary remote

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CES has TVs -- tons of 'em. But portion the likes of Samsung, LG and TCL combat implicit getting the darkest blacks, the crispest representation oregon the best-value TVs, a startup by the sanction of Displace TV is doing thing different. It's making TVs spell wireless. No much uncovering originative ways to fell your TV chords, the company's 55-inch OLED surface is designed to beryllium stuck to walls oregon windows utilizing suction cups.

Displace TV uses batteries alternatively than a wired transportation for power, and you'll usage question controls to alteration channels and set the measurement alternatively than a remote. Read much astir it here.

Smartwatches privation to cognize if you're OK

Smartwatches to way bosom rate, slumber prime and blood-oxygen levels abound, but Citizen takes it a measurement further with its CZ Smart watch, which besides measures fatigue and alertness levels. It'll adjacent archer you your chronotype -- that is, whether you're a nighttime owl oregon an aboriginal bird. It's different motion that smartwatch makers are focusing much and much connected measuring the mode slumber and accent interaction wide wellbeing.

The thinnest gaming laptop successful the world

The Alienware x14 is the thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop.

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Alienware amazed america with four caller laptops up of CES, including the Alienware x14, which the institution said is the thinnest 14-inch gaming laptop successful the world. Featuring a 2,560x1,600-pixel show with a 165Hz refresh rate, it'll merchantability from $1,799 erstwhile it ships this winter. A bigger version, the Alienware x16, starts astatine $3,099. These laptops are for radical who are consenting to sacrifice immoderate powerfulness for slicker designs.

Invisible laptop touchpads

LG Gram laptop being held successful someone's hands.

LG showed disconnected its new Gram Style laptop, which features a hidden touchpad that presents itself lone erstwhile you interaction the thenar rest. The stealthy haptic touchpad lights up nether your fingers erstwhile touched, showing you wherever to pat and resistance to navigate the screen. It's a neat item we didn't cognize we wanted.

A elephantine leap for PC gamers who besides usage consoles

Dell's Nyx conception controller.

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Dell's Concept Nyx gaming controller looks astatine archetypal glimpse similar conscionable different third-party Xbox controller, albeit with immoderate fancy lights. Alas, it's much than that. The Nyx controller is tricked retired with a clump of hidden inputs, which multiply the functionality of the controller.

The thought seems to beryllium to span the spread betwixt a gamepad and a keyboard. PC gamers are capable to usage hotkey setups to person dozens of inputs, acold much than the emblematic gamepad, which is often constricted to the options presented by a d-pad. That means they tin usage a wider scope of attacks successful an MMO, for instance, oregon rhythm betwixt six oregon 7 guns successful a first-person shooter alternatively than the 2 oregon 3 that console gamers are often constricted to.

A fridge built to party

The LG MoodUp works hard and plays hard.

Keeping your nutrient caller is an important job; the humble fridge deserves a accidental to fto its hairsbreadth down. LG's MoodUp fridge has an exterior of LED panels, which let for 190,000 antithetic colour combinations -- and It features a bluetooth talker via, making the panels pulsate with euphony being played. The MoodUp fridge is astir much than refrigeration. It's astir the vibe.

Those LED panels tin bash applicable things too, similar flash erstwhile you've near a fridge doorway unfastened for excessively long. The precocious close sheet becomes transparent with the nudge of a finger, allowing you to spot what's wrong without letting immoderate acold aerial out. But mostly, it does the vibe thing.

Roku has entered the chat

Roku announced it's expanding into TVs, fundamentally competing with its ain partnerships with much established TV makers specified arsenic TCL, Hisense and Sharp. The determination has agelong been rumored and makes a batch of consciousness for the streaming instrumentality maker. Roku TVs volition travel with the brand's Voice Remotes, which see the fashionable (and ever-useful) "find my remote" feature. Looks similar LG and Samsung person immoderate caller competition.

The TV that puts each others to shame

LG's wireless TV with the transmitter container successful the foreground.

It's the world's largest OLED TV: LG's 97-inch model was really unveiled past year, but successful 2023 it's gone wireless. That means the world's largest surface with the champion representation that exertion allows is present escaped of that disfigured jumble of cords. We've been covering TVs astatine CES for years, and adjacent we were amazed -- CNET TV guru David Katzmaier was truthful impressed, helium says LG is putting each different TVs to shame with this one.

Upgrades coming to your laptop's brains

Illustration of an Intel Core processor dice acceptable successful an illuminated motherboard

Sleek displays and dazzling screens are nice, but often it's the tech you don't spot that matters most. Intel unveiled a boatload of new 13th-generation processors, which volition powerfulness a immense scope of products and amended show connected a wide scope of laptops.

Less abstract than spot show are the upgrades they tin yield. The caller procreation of Intel CPUs bring with them Unison, which lets iPhone and Android devices nonstop and person texts from your PC, arsenic good arsenic Thunderbolt 4, which among different improvements volition acceptable arsenic a modular the quality to tally 2 4K outer displays. Expect to spot these features successful merchandise announcements implicit the adjacent fewer days.

Then determination was AMD's property conference. Much of what the institution touted was its pro-grade tech, similar the AMD chips that were utilized to physique Avatar 2's ocular effects. As acold arsenic products you tin really buy, AMD has partnered with HP for the Dragonfly Pro, a laptop designed for freelancers, and Lenovo for caller Legion Pro gaming laptops. For PC gamers, AMD's high-end Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 7950X3D processors are coming this year.

Cloud gaming, present successful your car

Chief among Nvidia's announcements are improvements to GeForce Now, its unreality gaming service, which allows you to watercourse games connected laptops, phones and more. In short, the powerfulness of Nvidia's GeForce 4080 GPU is coming to the cloud. If you subscribe to the premium tier of GeForce Now -- henceforth known arsenic GeForce Now Ultimate -- you tin present watercourse games astatine 240Hz, utilize ray tracing (which importantly improves however airy is rendered in-game) and DLSS 3 (which uses an algorithm to boost framework complaint portion retaining representation quality).

Plus, GeForce Now is coming to... cars. If your car has a surface connected its dash, you tin play portion the car is successful park. If determination are screens down the operator oregon rider seats, those sitting successful the backmost tin crippled connected the go. For starters, Nvidia is partnering with Hyundai, BYB and Polestar.

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