CES 2019: More Show Floor Favorites

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Other categories that we have been following include 3D additive manufacturing using 3D printing. This is an area that seems to have matured significantly over the last few years. We have been following 3D printing of printed circuits for the last few years and is an area that has started to become commercial with announcements of the purchase of circuit printers from Nano Dimension released on a regular basis. At CES, we saw 3D printing of real items—not just toys. This is a topic we will continue to follow.

Further, a 1 TB SD card gained our attention. It is expensive, but come on—one full terabyte in an SD card! That will hold thousands of pictures and a number of videos including 4K or even 8K resolution. Also, Intel is pushing the next-generation of advanced laptop computers. This effort is called “Project Athena,” which includes 5G and AI support included in what seems to be Ultrabook version 2. Intel will eventually release the specifications that manufacturers will need to meet to become certified.

Regarding new phones, there is the Royole FlexPai. It is a phone—not a PC—but the format may pave the way for an upcoming generating of micro PC devices that can also make calls. The FlexPai unfolds to a 7.8-inch screen running a version of Android 9, and it also runs Android apps in multiple windows in both its folded phone configuration or in the unfolded tablet.

There were so many more devices. For example, NVIDIA announced a mini version of its amazing new RTX graphics for laptops, so ray tracing on a laptop is coming. The Netgear Nighthawk AX12 was also shown at CES. This is the next generation of networking equipment. It includes eight antennas and uses Wi-Fi 6 and a 2.2-GHz quad-core processor. Additionally, it includes a hybrid virtual private network (VPN) setup, which allows you to use devices on your network (like a PC running a BitTorrent app) to run behind your VPN if you wish.

Let’s not forget the IEEE booth. Besides providing so much assistance to professionals in the industry for many decades, this year, IEEE had an amazing XR setup in their booth. In it, they had two globes where you donned XR gear and entered a globe where you could walk on an extremely realistic virtual surface of the moon.

As you can tell, I could go on. Even with all we have covered in the last few articles, we were only able to see and report on a fraction of what was announced, on exhibit, and discussed at CES 2019. With the advances in AI, ray tracing, machine learning, XR, and the enabling power of 5G, just imagine what we will have available to us in the coming few years. Stay tuned because there is more on the way!

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