CES 2024 updates: The most interesting news and gadgets from tech's big show
LAS VEGAS — Welcome to CES 2024. This multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is expected to bring some 130,000 attendees and more than 4,000 exhibitors to Las Vegas. The latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more will be on display, with burgeoning uses of artificial intelligence almost everywhere you look.
The Associated Press will keep a running report of everything we find interesting from the floor of CES, from the latest announcements to most quirky smart gadgets.
Roberta Wilson-Garrett used to be a morning person who would leap out of bed at dawn. Until, that is, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease six years ago.
Now her hands twist and tremor, making the morning time, when her medicine is wearing off, especially difficult. It takes hours for her to get ready for the day. All her coffee mugs have lids on them now.
Boston-based GyroGear, a medical tech startup, debuted a hand-stabilizing glove at CES 2024 that it hopes will help people like Wilson-Garrett regain control of their lives.
“It makes life normal for me again. The things that you take for granted, I don’t take for granted anymore,” Wilson-Garrett told AP on the show floor as her right hand shook. "It gives me back a piece of my old life when I have the glove on."
When Wilsgon-Garrett slipped on the black glove, her right hand relaxed, and she was able to hold a pen and write her name.
The GyroGlove is now available for $5,899.
Can generative AI tell your future? A fortune teller showcased by South Korean manufacturing and IT services giant SK Group at CES this week gives us a glimpse.
SK’s AI Fortune Teller, which is powered by high-bandwidth memory technology, claims that it can tell users’ their fortune by reading their emotions. The machine snaps a photo of your face and, naturally, asks you to select a card from an on-screen deck. Within moments, the AI analyzes facial characteristics and produces an Tarot card-like print with a short, future-looking message or piece of advice.
This AI fortune teller isn’t available to consumers outside of CES. Organizers note that it’s featured in the Las Vegas show to help display SK’s latest tech and sustainability advances -- noting that the HBM3, for example, helps reduce energy use. Other attractions advertised at the “SK Wonderland” interactive exhibit include a fully-electric dancing car and train that’s capable of being powered by hydrogen energy
A new flying taxi concept, dubbed the S-A2 by Hyundai, made its debut at CES 2024.
The South Korean vehicle manufacturer envisions the electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle as a commuter solution for urban areas with heavy traffic.
Hyundai claims the vehicle will be able to cruise at 120 mph (190 kph) at a 1,500-foot (460-meter) altitude while operating as quietly as a dishwasher.
The S-A2 builds on Hyundai's S-A1 concept, which made its debut at CES in 2020. Company officials say they are working to get the vehicle ready to meet flight standards set by nations around the world.
GE Appliances is looking to change the way you smoke food with its new $1,000 indoor smoker.
About the size of a toaster oven or microwave, the GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker can fit a full brisket cut in half, 40 chicken wings or three racks of ribs. It still uses wood pellets to achieve a smokey flavor, but its technology traps the smoke inside, making it “perfect for people who live in urban environments,” like high-rise apartments, said Whitney Welch, a spokesperson for GE Appliances
A focus on accessibility in the gaming industry is on the rise. Just this October, Sony launched the Access controller for Playstation.
To talk the wins so far and the road ahead, CES 2024 featured a panel of four players for “The Evolution of Accessible Gaming”: Mark Barlet, Founder of AbleGamers, Liz Schmidlin, PhD, Lead User Research at PlayStation, Michele Zorrilla, Adv. Sr. UX Researcher at Insomniac Games, moderated by Paul Amadeus Lane, an accessibility consultant and broadcaster.
For Lane, gaming is a lifelong passion, but when he got in a car accident that left him unable to use his fingers, he first thought his gaming days were over.
“It was like I lost a good friend. But then that good friend got reunited when I found out about all these accessibility features,” Lane said during the panel.
Bartlet said people with disabilities are 56% more likely to be socially isolated, and combatting that is what drives his organization. Further, he says it’s smart business.
“20% of the population has some sort of disability and you start looking at game companies competing for eyeballs — all of a sudden, talking about, ‘Hey, would you like to sell more games?’ becomes a really powerful conversation.”
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