CES 2022: Highlights and innovations of the technology fair

Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, T-Mobile, Hisense, Waymo, Intel, General Motors and many other industry giants stayed away from the CES this year due to the corona situation or moved their trade fair presence to the Internet. But for the organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the motto was apparently “The Show Must Go On”. Because after the CES had already canceled last year, they probably didn’t want to miss the technology break a second time.

To what extent this will affect the spread of any virus mutations, or whether there will even be an in-house Vegas variant, cannot be said at this point in time. What can be seen from CES so far is definitely good news. Because although the visitor masses this year did not come close to the level of the years before Corona, the number of exciting new products is surprisingly high.

CES 2022: The new televisions

In principle, the relevant TV manufacturers Samsung, LG and Sony also represent the motto “higher, faster, further” this year. Sony announced eight new model series, seven of them 4K and one 8K TV. The highlight among the new models is the A95K, which works with so-called quantum dots. These are small crystals that Sony builds into an OLED panel and thus wants to achieve brighter and more color-intensive images. The screen diagonals range from 43 inches to 85 inches, the exact prices for all new products are still open.

Samsung showed its new Neo-QLED televisions, some of which have innovative wall brackets that rotate the screens by 90 degrees at the push of a button and are therefore ideally positioned for vertical content. In addition, some models offer an “EyeComfort” mode, which, similar to smartphones, is intended to reduce brightness and the proportion of blue light if the environment allows it. The idea of ​​creating a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT), through which Samsung TV owners can buy individual digital pieces of images, is a little wilder. The new remote controls that Samsung are loudly speaking are much more mundane The Verge want to include some devices in the future. With these, changing batteries should be a thing of the past, as the snaps charge themselves via radio waves.

at LG it goes in width, because for the first time the manufacturer brings two models with 42 and 97 inches. The giant called G2 is the world’s first 97-inch OLED panel. Nothing is known about prices so far, but maybe that’s better that way.

CES 2022: computers, laptops and gaming

Gamers and home office enthusiasts will also get their money’s worth with the products of CES 2022. Samsung introduced the Odyssey Neo G8, the world’s first 4K miniled display with 240 Hertz. Asus however, brought 42 and 48 inch gaming screens to Las Vegas.

Razer, Lenovo and Asus will also be showing at CES 2022 that newer generations of laptops are bursting with power. at Razer this is done in the form of extensive product maintenance for the Blade series and Lenovo presented two new Thinkpads with AMD Ryzen 6000 processors.

The Asus ROG Flow Z13 actually looks like a Microsoft Surface Pro, thanks to the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 Ti and Intel’s Alder Lake processors, it offers significantly more performance. Asus even has a price for the power pack that is around 1,900 euros when the device hits the market in the second quarter.

Manufacturers such as AMD and Intel used the CES to present numerous new processors. AMD showed the Ryzen 7000 for the first time, Intel Fresh Alder Lake chips, which can be understood as the answer to Apple’s powerful M processors, especially in the mobile sector.

Meanwhile, gamers who prefer a console should look forward to Sony’s announcement that PlayStation VR 2 is in the starting blocks. There are still no pictures of the virtual reality headset, but initial information was provided about the technology. VR 2 supports haptic feedback, tracking of eye movements, 4K HDR, a field of view of 110 degrees and a display with up to 120 Hertz.

CES 2022: Smartphones, neglected

For fans of new smartphones, the fact that the CES does not address the issue of mobile innovations Mobile World Congress (February 29 – March 3, 2022). So if you are waiting for the big wave of announcements in this segment, you have to be patient until the end of February. At CES this year there is only that Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G and the Oneplus 10 Pro made.

The new upper-class model from Samsung again bears the addition “Fan Edition” and is an extension of the S21 family. It offers a 6.4 inch screen diagonal, Snapdragon 888 processor and Android 12 including Samsung’s new user interface OneUI 4.0. It is priced at 749 euros for 128 gigabytes of storage.

With the 10 Pro, Oneplus is initially only bringing a smartphone for China that works with the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. This is a system-on-a-chip with ARMv9 cores. According to the manufacturer, the performance should have increased by around 20 percent compared to the Snapdragon 888 and at the same time 30 percent less energy is required.

CES 2022: 1000 and 1 concept

At the beginning of CES 2022 it quickly became clear that Mercedes had positioned itself strongly with the EQXX. Aside from the 1000-kilometer concept, there were also other exciting innovations. A few years after the presentation of the first concept vehicle, Sony announced that the group has real ambitions when it comes to electric cars and is now working specifically on a production vehicle.

With the Vision S02 they brought further proof of this and presented a vehicle that should offer space for seven people. The SUV relies on an all-wheel drive with 400 kilowatts of power and offers enough sensors for autonomous driving at level 2+. According to Sony, however, they want to enable level 4, i.e. fully automated driving without human intervention.

CES 2022: It’s still smartest at home

The Consumer Electronic Show wouldn’t be itself if it weren’t for numerous new gadgets for the intelligent home. So posed Sengled a smart lightbulb that is able to recognize the state of health of people.

Withings follows a similar concept with a scale. The Body Scan for around 300 euros is able to identify weight as well as the general state of health of the weighing person and even divide the body into individual zones. Among other things, it shows blood vessel age and heart rate and creates an electrocardiogram. If the going gets tough, the data can be sent to a doctor.

Wants for a clean apartment Roborock with a new vacuum robot that first vacuums and mops the booth and then cleans itself in a station that even cleans the cleaning rag. This is to avoid the need for manual cleaning every time the robot passes through. The Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra costs around 1,400 euros and is therefore a genuine luxury product.

If you prefer to clean your teeth according to all the rules of the art instead of the floors, you will find Procter & Gamble with the Oral-B iO-10 toothbrush not only a cleaning device for your teeth, but also an analysis tool for your own brushing habits.

CES 2022: No trade fair without curiosities

CES would not be itself if it weren’t for numerous solutions to problems at the show that you didn’t know you had before. John Deere shows at the fair, for example, a tractor that can work the field without a farmer.

BMW drives around on site with a vehicle called BMW iX Flow E-Ink, which is able to change colors. They reveal what the vehicle film is all about Traced News on site. What does the TÜV say about it?

There are of course also innovations for the local animals this year. Petnow is able, for example, to recognize dogs by their nose and thus make chips superfluous in the future. For the garden there is the Bird buddy a smart bird house that triggers an alarm every time you visit and allows you to watch pecking birds via webcam.