Most of the new TVs I saw last week at CES are actually coming to market in 2017, but some of the coolest won’t be available for sale. Unless you’re an airport, a fast-food restaurant or a jewelry store with a penchant for flashy signage. The epicenter of display coolness was the white-walled, private booth …
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New year, new phone. At least that’s the gist of a recently posted video on LG’s YouTube channel, which teases its next flagship device — you know, the one with everything that people want in a phone (or so says LG). The video ends with the launch month: February 2017. Do we think this is the LG G6 bound for …
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Tall, small, dancing, singing, cleaning, sassy, silly, cute and scary — CES 2017 was awash with robots. While there are the obvious ones like the humanoid “Pepper,” exhibits at the colossal electronics show stretched the definition of a robot to include Amazon Echo-like hubs that featured glowing eyes or that bobbed to music. You can thank Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant …
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LG’s “wallpaper” W7 was the coolest TV that debuted at CES 2017 in my book. Its millimeter-thick screen hugs your wall like another coat of paint and should deliver image quality as good as any of the company’s other world-beating OLED TVs. Unfortunately if you want it to look as seamless as wallpaper, you’ll need a professional to install it. …
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CES 2017 has been a whirlwind of gadgets, cars and Alexa-integrated appliances. If you can’t be in Las Vegas to take it all in — and trust me, it’s a lot to absorb — there’s no better way to experience the tech of today, tomorrow and possibly never than through video. For the armchair attendee, the CNET TV has spent …
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Now playing: Watch this: Robots everywhere at CES 2017 19:07 CES 2017 will always be remembered as the show where we met our future robot overlords — and were foolishly disarmed by how darn cute they were. Even when, back in December, we predicted the robots were coming, we didn’t realize quite how many bots we would encounter. The droids …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Asus ZenFone AR is ahead of the curve 1:35 CES may be lean on phones this year, but the 17 we saw pointed out some trends that will help define handsets through 2017, especially as we head into next month’s Mobile World Congress, the phone world’s best and biggest show. Biggest trends AI will be …
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Now playing: Watch this: The coolest TV tech of CES 2017 17:51 For the last week I’ve been staring into the future of TVs, and it’s hella bright. CES 2017 is over, and now we know all about the year’s newest, biggest sets. I saw many, many inches of screen real estate, all of it in 4K resolution and most …
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LG is backing away from what made its previous top-of-the-line phone unique. The company last year launched the G5, which ventured off the beaten path of phone design: Owners could swap out its bottom “chin” for other parts that added a camera grip or a souped-up speaker. In a sea of similar-looking phones, LG hoped that its unusual approach would …
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The show floor at CES 2017 doesn’t open until Thursday, but Wednesday is arguably the biggest news day of the show. As the second of two Chinese manufacturers announcing today, Hisense’s press conference is scheduled for 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET. While the company is yet to reveal details of its 2017 line you can expect technologies such as HDR, …
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