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Let’s talk CES 2022 trends
I spent a chunk of yesterday morning rediscovering the big trends of CES 2012. It’s a strange experience, examining so much technology that feels — at once — extremely dated and very recent. With 10 years between you and an event, the macro trends really take shape. Some items are a clear part of a…
Mercedes, BMW, more join list of companies opting-out of an in-person CES
Two more auto giants have added their names to the growing list of big companies opting out of an in-person CES with less than a week remaining before kickoff. Yesterday,…
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The best tech of CES 2012
Consumer electronics are a bad metric for gauging the passage of time. And, frankly, Consumer Electronics Shows are considerably worse. I’ve attended well into the double digits of CES and have largely experienced them in similar manner: as a week-long flurry of news and shiny gadgets, filing news from trailers, press centers, hotel rooms and…
The last few days have been fairly quiet, so far as CES is concerned — no doubt owing to the holiday. The last major dropout came from Microsoft, which confirmed…
Samsung’s C-Lab class features a diaper sensor, smart guitar and modular robot
A number of high-profile exhibitors are opting out of next year’s CES. Samsung is among those big names sticking it out for next week’s show — which always proves a…
My first in-person experience with a fitness ring was back at CES 2017. Four years later, one wonders if they might be having a moment at next week’s show —…
GM, Google, Lenovo, Intel, T-Mobile, AT&T, Meta, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok, Pinterest and now Microsoft. The software giant just became the latest big name to announce that it will no long…
GM is also dropping its CES exhibit, organizers still planning in-person show
Update: CTA head Gary Shapiro has offered TechCrunch the following updated statement, Over 2200 companies are confirmed to participate in person at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. Our focus remains…
Google cancels CES in-person presence, event organizers going ahead with show
Update: CTA head Gary Shapiro has offered TechCrunch the following updated statement, Over 2200 companies are confirmed to participate in person at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. Our focus remains…
Intel becomes the latest company to back away from an in-person CES
Following today’s news that Lenovo and Alphabet-owned Waymo are sitting out the in-person element of CES 2022, Intel just announced that it’s moving to “minimize” its presence at the tech…
Lenovo to ‘suspend’ in-person CES activities as more exhibitors embrace omicron caution
Update: Waymo has officially added its name to the list, become one of the first notable automotive companies to do so. In a blogpost, the Alphabet subsidiary noted, “Based on…
As exhibitors mull attendance amid omicron, CES organizers stand firm
It’s beginning to look a bit like MWC. Of course, things have thus far played out a bit differently than Mobile World Congress’s planned show in Barcelona back in 2020.…
Hyundai’s Mobile Eccentric Droid tries hard to live up to its name
I’m going to hand it to Hyundai. The company is building some weird robotics, and I’m mostly here for it. In addition to the more straightforward car-building fare you’d expect,…
German Bionic debuts a new exoskeleton with upper- and lower-body assistance
Late last year, German Bionic announced a $20 million Series A round led — in part — by Samsung Catalyst Fund. It was a curious alliance, given that Samsung has…
After a year away, we’re less than a month out from the next CES. Seeing as how it’s a hybrid event (as, we assume, most events will be, going forward),…
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Home, star, trucker
Once I was recovered from the initial surrealism of Amazon launching its own home robot, I immediately thought about iRobot. The company cornered the home robotics market a decade ago, and while there are now countless robot vacuums, they’re all more or less riffs on the Roomba. The issue with having a big hit is…
It was, I admit, slightly strange not feeling the extreme anxiety over the holidays at having to return to Las Vegas this past year. But nature is healing. Vaccinations have…