Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 began with a bang on January 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. The tech fair featured an exuberant display of technology and witnessed big brands like Google and BMW coming together for the creation of future technology.
While the participating brands including tech companies like Dell, Lenovo and HP displayed some really cool laptops, organisations like Google and BMW went high on Artificial Intelligence.
In case you missed out on the developments, check out the updates here:
Lenovo launches series of gaming laptops
Lenovo Legion (Photo: Lenovo/CES 2017)
CES 2017 witnessed Lenovo launching a new series of gaming laptops– Legion. Lenovo Legion Y720 features the latest range of Intel Core processors with discrete graphics and super fast hybrid storage space and an Xbox One Wireless Controller support. The company also launched Yoga Book, which runs on a custom version of Android operating system. Yoga Book also features an innovative Halo keyboard, which appears when you need it and vanishes when you don’t.
LG unveils a super-slim television
LG unveils TV (Photo: LG/CES 2017)
Korean consumer electronics giant unveiled a super-slim television at CES 2017. The smart-TV is a mere 2.57mm thick and features an OLED panel with nano-cell technology. The company would start shipping the TV, that looks like a poster on the wall, from March 2017.
Samsung shows off Odyssey notebook system
Samsung Odyssey (Photo: Windows/CES 2017)
The year 2016 was a year of epic bloopers for Korean electronic giant Samsung. However, the company has a number of devices lined up in 2017 to make a stellar comeback. Starting the year with a bang, the company showed off its latest notebook– Odyssey at the CES in LA. The laptop is power-packed with a number of features including the 7th generation Intel core i7 processor with a wide-view angle display, a 1TB HDD, Dual SSD + HDD and Triple storage space. The company also updated its Notebook 9 series laptop adding an increased battery life, Windows 10, 7th generation Intel Core i7 Processor to it. The company also announced Chromebook and Chromebook Plus, that offer 360-degree rotating touchscreen.
HP launches world’s slimmest convertible
HP Spectre (Photo: HP Spectre/CES 2017)
Ahead of CES 2017, US tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) unveiled the world’s thinnest convertible laptop. EliteBook x360 promises the longest ever battery life of over 16 hours. The laptop is protected by a coating of Corning Gorilla Glass and is powered by the seventh-generation Intel core i7 processor. The company also unveiled EliteBook x360, which features ultra-high display, 16GB DDR4 RAM and Windows Hello support.
Qualcomm display the all-mighty Snapdragon 835 processor
Snapdragon 835 (Photo: Qualcomm/CES 2017)
While CES is all about the big brands bragging their peerless technological advancements, it’s the core products like the processors, VR and graphics that draw maximum attention. In this cases, the show-stealer was Qualcomm that unveiled its all-mighty processor Snapdragon 835 at CES 2017. The company is launching the processor in conjunction with the Power Rangers VR gear.
Nissan and BMW bring Microsoft’s Cortana to cars
BMW integrates Cortana to its dashboard (Photo: BMW/CES 2017)
Remember Cortana? Microsoft’s smartass AI that has been guiding you on your Windows laptops and phones. Well, two of the biggest names in the automotive– Nissan and BMW are bringing Cortana to your car. While BMW plans to use Cortana for a personalised autonomous driving experience, Nissan plans to use the AI in a similar way while adding ‘google maps like’ features to it.
Kingston unveils 2TB flash drive
Kingston (Photo: Facebook)
In this digital era, storage space is of great importance, specially when we’re dealing with the humongous quantity of data every day. To facilitate the process of data storage, Kingston launched world’s first flash drive with the storage space of 2TB at a pre-CES event. The USB drive is completely shock-proof and is compatible with Windows 7 and higher versions, Mac OS v10.9 and above, Linux v2.6 and above and Google Chrome.
Dell launches Alienware and other laptops
Dell laptops (Photo: Windows/CES 2017)
If CES is too big an event, Dell made it even bigger by releasing a series of laptops. Apart from updating its Alienware series, Dell also updated its Canvas, XPS, Precision and UltraSharp series of laptops. The company also added WiTricity magnetic resonance wireless charging technology to its laptops to enable wireless charging in its laptops.
Blackberry launches Mercury
Blackberry Mercury (Photo: Facebook)
TCL, the company that now manufactures smartphones for Blackberry showed-off a teaser of their rumoured smartphone– Mercury. The smartphone will feature a combination of Android-Blackberry keypad and will be launched at Mobile World Congress 2017.
Casio launches WSD-F20 smartwatch
Casio smartwatch (Photo: Facebook)
Japanese consumer electronic giant has updated its smartwatch WSD-F20. The smartwatch runs on Android Wear 2.0 and features GPS functionality and support for online and offline maps. WSD-F20 comes with a rugged look and can slip into the low-power monochrome mode for basic tasks like checking time. Though the prices haven’t been confirmed yet, the smartwatch will be hit the market in April this year.
Nvidia joins forces with Audi and Mercedes-Benz to form ‘super cars’
Audi partners with Nvidia
(Photo: Twitter/Nvidia)
The year 2016 was a big year for artificial intelligence and saw the global tech giants collaborating for the development of AI. Taking the trend a step further are two major partnerships between- Nvidia and Audi; and Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz. While Mercedes-Benz has already been working together for about three years on bringing out AI-driven cars, Audi showed off Q7, a car that is powered by Nvidia’s AI Xavier and is capable of driving itself with just four days of training.
