We’ll be talking about the potential of voice recognition with Nuance, the company behind the popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking and features in hardware like Samsung’s Smart TVs. The company’s CTO Vlad Sejnoha will be joining us on the stage.
Check out our full CES 2013 stage schedule here!
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Samsung is known around these here parts as the Fifth Horsemen. The company has risen from a boring mega-conglomerate to Apple’s biggest competitor, the world leader in TVs, and one of the most crucial manufacturers world. The proof of this is in the pudding, or rather the $1 million booth the company has set up to dominate CES.
This booth is rivaled only by Sony’s, and I’d venture to say that of the 1.9 million square feet that makes up CES, Samsung has the largest individual share. And if that weren’t enough, the Korean company name is on the lips of every analyst, buyer, vendor, exhibitor, and reporter across the entire Las Vegas Convention Center.
They’ve got TVs and phones, tablets and audio products. Hell, they even have LCD-equipped Smart Appliances. It’s mind-blowing, although that’s only enhanced by the panoramic booth-encompassing display that runs around the entire area.
We spent quite a while with Samsung during our live roaming coverage of the show. In fact, we kicked off CES coverage with an in-depth tour of their booth.
We’ve split up the videos based on the various products we checked out, so if you’re hungry for some Samsung, look no further.
Samsung Galaxy Note 2
The Galaxy Note is a phablet, if there ever were one. It sports a 5.5-inch 720p display and an Exynos quad-core processor. The S-Pen — arguably the piece that gave this jumbo phone its name — has been updated to be significantly more precise.
with an updated S-Pen stylus
Samsung F8000 LED TV
The F8000 was a central piece of Samsung’s keynote presentation. It has a bezel less than a quarter of an inch thick, and a new wave-inspired stand that makes the TV look like it’s floating on thin air. The LED TV is powered by a quad-core processor, comes with the new HD video codec HDVC, and will range in size from 46 to 75 inches.
Samsung Ultra Hi-Def TV
The UHD TV from Samsung is the F8000′s much more powerful and beautiful big brother. At 85 inches, it brings 4K straight into your living room. In terms of design, it seems inspired by either a soccer goal or an easel, but in either case it’s about as good as it gets. A 110-inch model will be headed to market over the course of the year.
Samsung Evolution Kit
The Samsung Evolution Kit is a bit silly now, but you may be singing a different tune come 2015. It essentially allows you to upgrade your “old” — as in, 2012 — TV to get all the features of the 2013 models, like quad-core processing, the revamped Smart Hub, and S-Recommendation. It’ll debut in March, and at $499, it’s much cheaper than buying a brand new TV.
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Even though Microsoft doesn’t have a booth at CES this year, that doesn’t mean it skipped Vegas altogether. Panos Panay, the general manager for Surface products, is in town, holding meetings with a few members of the media, us included. And he brought some toys with him. Specifically, the forthcoming Surface Pro along with the pressure-sensitive pen that goes with it. We only had a few minutes of hands-on time and in any case, we plan on going into much more detail when we eventually write our review. For now, though, we’ve got a first look waiting for you past the break. Join us.
Gallery: Microsoft Surface Pro hands-on
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Wouldn’t it be grand if you could just plop your smartphone down on a speaker dock and not have to worry about attaching an adapter cable, connecting to a wireless network, or firing up Bluetooth and pairing both devices? RCA has done away with all that hassle with its new SoundFlow alarm clock that simply requires you to place your handset on top for a litte more oomph in the sound department. More »
Microsoft has revealed IllumiRoom, the latest fruit of its virtual reality research, using Kinect and projection systems to turn your living room into a huge, immersive gaming environment. The proof-of-concept, shown off today at CES, uses projected visualizations rendered in real-time to extend gaming from your TV to your whole environment.
“The effects in the video are rendered in real time and are captured live,” Microsoft research says, “not special effects added in post processing.” The system uses a Kinect for Windows camera paired up with a computer-controlled projector, with the sensor bar mapping the geometry of the room and then overlaying the digital graphics on top.
None of the visuals are pre-processed, with the whole IllumiRoom system figuring out the skew of the walls and how the images need to be modified to suit in real-time. “Our system can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new game experiences” Microsoft suggests.
Full details of the system haven’t been revealed yet, with Microsoft saying that it will be detailing the whole system in an upcoming paper. Exactly how the company might leverage the technology into a commercial product isn’t detailed, though we think it might be a while before Xbox gamers can fill their living room with gameplay.
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It’s only the second week of January and it’s already been an eventful year for Lenovo. There’s the newly minted ThinkPad X1 Carbon to talk about — and that whole Lenovo Business Group / ThinkPad Business Group split to talk about. The company’s Executive Director of Worldwide Product Marketing, Jerry Paradise will be on-hand to answer our questions and show off some of the company’s latest laptops.
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It’s only the second week of January and it’s already been an eventful year for Lenovo. There’s the newly minted ThinkPad X1 Carbon to talk about — and that whole Lenovo Business Group / ThinkPad Business Group split to talk about. The company’s Executive Director of Worldwide Product Marketing, Jerry Paradise will be on-hand to answer our questions and show off some of the company’s latest laptops.
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LG’s Smart Activity Watch is FuelBand look-alike—there’s no denying it. And, yes, there are already a lot of new wearable fitness trackers. Well, LG crams the features of all of its competitors into one. And by the time it comes out this summer, the watch might add something everybody wants: A heart rate monitor. More »
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