CES 2024
These trends are in focus at the tech show
CES in Las Vegas takes place from January 9th to 12th.
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At CES in Las Vegas, tech giants and startups will present their latest innovations over four days. These are the biggest eye-catchers.
Like every year, the world’s firsts will be on display at the CES electronics trade fair in Las Vegas at the beginning of 2024. From January 9th to 12th, several hundred manufacturers will present their latest electronic products. From refrigerators to cars to smartphones, monitors and toilet flushers: the digitalization of every conceivable area of life is celebrated at the trade fair. The big trend here? Pairing everything with artificial intelligence (AI). These are the highlights of this year Consumer Electronics Show.
It is no news that artificial intelligence is on the rise in certain tech disciplines. So it seems like a logical step that chip manufacturer AMD announced at CES that it would be installing neural computing units on its processors in the future, which will allow the systems to learn locally instead of having to be connected to large data centers. Some observers also expected AI trendsetter Nvidia to introduce new integrated graphics chips and standalone graphics cards for the world’s largest tech show. In this context, Samsung’s path to AI chips in 8K televisions or its attempt to optimize household robots for even better integration into everyday life are also unsurprising.
But between all these more or less foreseeable developments, real innovations can also be seen at the CES every year, technical world firsts that have not been leaked in advance or already announced. Both Samsung and LG have achieved the biggest coup in this regard. Both companies are presenting transparent screens in Las Vegas that will amaze you with the technical possibilities. While Samsung’s presentation is more like a tech demo that demonstrates the transparency of the glass and the simultaneous color brilliance, LG is already thinking in the direction of “television as a design object” and is announcing a finished product Promotional video which is scheduled to appear later this year.
Robots that can talk to us and call the doctor for us
LG and Samsung are also competing for the attention of the CES audience in another area: both are presenting their idea of a personal home robot that is mobile and is intended to make everyday life easier for its owners. “Ballie” from Samsung and the “LG Smart Home AI Agent” can be connected to existing smart home devices, are equipped with sensors and cameras as well as AI language models and are intended to be nothing less than a robot roommate.
The manufacturers’ idea is that the little companions become the control center of our digital home, making appointments for us and reminding us of them, taking care of our pets or alerting the emergency services when their owners lose consciousness. Nothing is currently known about the price of both robots and the time of market launch is still vague: While LG has not provided any information on this, Samsung has at least set the year 2024.
Smartphone innovation
Traditionally, smartphones play a relatively minor role at CES, but here too, manufacturers always manage to make a name for themselves with brand new technology. So in 2024 you won’t be able to ignore Samsung, which is inviting you to get hands-on with the latest folding display technology. Although the Koreans are already producing the most popular foldable with the Galaxy Z Flip, the further development of the technology seems to be in full swing. As a result, the company is presenting a “Flex In And Out” display in Las Vegas that can not only be opened and closed, but also closed again at a 360 degree angle. A kind of foldable tablet with screens on both sides is conceivable in the future.
“Industrial Metaverse”: Siemens has big plans
In its keynote, Siemens explained that the CES is not just about our homes and their digitalization and presented their vision of an industrial digital space. While Apple and Meta are currently on everyone’s lips when it comes to the Metaverse, the German company also has a concrete idea for its own version of a digital reality: the “Industrial Metaverse”.
It should be nothing less than a digital copy of our reality, in which we can try things out without limits: everything from the safety and efficiency of building a factory to test flights of aircraft to the bubbling behavior of the bubbles in champagne should be able to be simulated – even without it Programming skills, that’s what Siemens promises. In order to implement this project, Sony presented a jointly developed solution during the Siemens presentation still nameless headset before.