New Gadgets at the CES 2018
Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week is a showcase for several new Chinese exhibitors and they increasingly winning with their own products. Shenzhen-based DJI, a leading global producer of Drones.
The Value in Tech with Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have a combined market value of $2.8tn compared to the Chinese internet leaders Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Netease plus and JD.com whose combined valuation of $ 1.2 Tn, with the Chinese companies who are just beginning to look abroad.
Didi the cab riding firm acquired 99 in Brazil, and both Alibaba and Tencent are investing heavily in India. Massive investments in mobile broadband, a lucrative and competitive market top cate to 750m internet users in China and 1 bn internet users in India.
With Trump administration in America, protectionism is getting stricter blocking Huawei from selling phones to AT&T and Alibaba-affiliate Ant Financial form buying money transfer company MoneyGram. It is not as if China needs the US but the US tech companies need China’s scale to help make and launch emerging technologies at home, as the recent deal between Facebook and Xiaomi for Oculus VR headsets proves. The US is slipping down the league of internet speeds and affordability. Google recently announced ab AI lab in Beijing as the US government is restricting visas for qualified researchers.
Acer has reclaimed the position for “world’s thinnest laptop”, with the 8.98mm thin second-generation Acer Swift7, which also features a built-in fingerprint sensor, Zero USB-A ports, only two USB-C ports, one headphone jack and a camera positioned at the bottom of the screen pointing to your nose and optional 4G LTE connectivity.
Lg showed off its 8k concept television, an 88-inch wide OLED behemoth that houses 33 million pixels, enough to make you wonder your 4K television think of the past. LG also showed off a 65-inch television that because of its flexible plastic display, can be unrolled from its fashionable storage container like a huge photograph.
NVIDIA-powered “Big Format Game Display” designed to bring 4K resolution to all your games and you will be able to stream games from your own PC in (4K) using the GeForce NOW streaming service in (1080p). you can play high-end PC games or Android apps using just a controller and Big Format Game Display.
Among the whacky products at the CES 2018 show are lamps that beams internet, a belt that has airbags and a device that let you make your own perfume. Merge VR’s latest product that comes with nerf-gun which supports smartphone games and can revolutionize the way mobile games are played and can reach new quantum. The device supports mixed reality games from a smartphone and is called the “6DoF Blaster” that has a space for a smartphone.
Smart brake light for cyclists created by a French startup called Cosmo Connected., which comes up with a smart light which can be attached to the rear end of your cycle. The smart light has eight LED lights and the feature that makes it smart is that it has “ fall detector” that can alert friends and informs potential injury which can be of great interest bikers and skaters.
Mu Tag is a small device which is tiny security gadget which uses Bluetooth to create a “virtual leash” and can be attached to several of the products like keys, smartphones, wallets, car etc.
Nota Nota perfume maker will help you to make your own perfume and has a smart perfume dispenser.
Bob the dishwasher, the world’s smallest dishwasher, that is perfect for one or two people. The makers claim that their device can clean and dry dishes in 20 minutes using only 3 litres of water per cycle and can be used over the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
L`Oreal’s UV sensor, a small thumb-sized device that can keep a track of your UV consumption. This is a mere sensor that can be attached to a fingernail. The sensor provides information to your smartphone via NFC.
My Li-Fi is a lamp that beams Wi-Fi internet using a lamp and a dongle that plugs into your computer’s USB port. The maximum speed can be at 23mps and only cost $840 and only a single person can use the lamp at a time.