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computers days are numbered

oh right let's see what they got for us this year the Consumer Electronics Show

in Las Vegas is the place to find out it's where the new products and concepts

are launched for 2018 and some of them might just change the world one of the

highlights of CES for me is always finding out how bendy LG is this year

previously they've been slightly bendy and then they were quite bendy this year

I think they've nailed it it's a 65 inch rollup 4k display and the image quality

really is very very good and it does roll completely up into remitted ly a

fairly chunky box it's an oh le D display the only display

tech that can be fully flexible the circuitry is built on a segmented back

so it's a bit like a retractable garage door you can actually choose how far the

screen rolls out as well as a widescreen TV it can be used as a thin notification

bar a wider format 21 by 9 cinema screen and of course nothing at all the

argument is that you can make use of the space behind it when you're not using it

and of course in South Korea a lot of people live in high-rise blocks of flats

can you imagine lugging a 65 inch TV up the stairs or even getting into the lift

much easier if you can roll it down into a handy tube elsewhere there are plenty

of other things to see and play with here at CES here's a phone from Chinese

company vivo which doesn't have a fingerprint scanner on the back

that's because it has one built into the screen the O LED display shines light

onto your thumb and an optical scanner buried underneath registers what it sees

here's the link flow Fit 360 a necklace with three cameras that together live

stitch to make a 360 video so you can record a true first-person view of your

experience so others can feel like they were truly there to

now it's important to catch the eye at shows like these which is hopefully what

this thing is doing this is the hyper vision display by kee Nomo and it's

capable of projecting life-size images high above the show floor all right sexy

thank you that's enough from you now listen here's the science bit here we've

got 24 rapidly spinning LED strips and as they go around they're flashing

different colors which gives you the illusion of a persistent image and in

the flesh I have to say it does really look rather good

all right don't build up your part old super great okay enough flimsy flimsy

lamb from me let's get Lara lonesome now with some of the big announcements from

this year's show and what a week it's been with news from Tech's biggest

players including the likes of Intel saying it will release software fixes to

repair security issues surrounding its chips we've had press events that have

gone wrong with disobedient robots from LG Khloe is now gonna talk to me Chloe

doesn't like be evidently and Sony's robot dog wasn't that responsive either

a ball was an autonomous robot and will quickly become a member of your family

by table big nor be there meanwhile the lack of female keynote speakers has

caused controversy amongst attendees a situation which has led to raised

eyebrows compounded by the inclusion of robotic pole dancers at a strip club

near the event and on the show floor as usual TVs were everywhere

but this one really stood out Samsung wall is a hundred and forty six inches

wide and can be made even larger by adding modules

and finally Toyota's unveiled its new autonomous a pallet vehicle it can be

used for ride-sharing deliveries or even a moving storefront that comes directly

to you that was Lara now one of the big themes at the moment is wireless

charging that normally means putting your phone on a path but it is also

possible to send power through the air one of the problems with wireless power

is that that power is sent in every direction at the same time so wherever

your device is it only receives a tiny fraction of that power well here's a

system that gets around that by sending focused beams of power to one particular

point the power transmitter can be built into ceiling tiles walls tables or parts

of the furniture all it needs to know is which direction to point the power in

now here's the science bit to work that out

the device needing the power sends out low power signals in all directions most

of which are blocked by nearby objects but the signals that do bounce around

and reach the transmitter come in at particular angles now by sending the

power back at exactly the same angles that power bounces about and eventually

gets back to the device the makers told us that they can achieve

2 watts of power at a distance of one meter which impressively is about half

the power of a smartphone charger I'm using this light to detect the power

beams between the transmitter and the blank box receiver think about your home

where you have smoke detectors think about that smoke detector that starts

beeping at night because it runs out of battery you can power there to remotely

never have to charge the battery again but with high power beams Lansing about

your home you may be wondering easy safe this technology is entirely

safe and we look to get FCC approval for safety that certifies the technology as

safe so if you have accepted Wi-Fi into your home

accepting code the technology wouldn't be the same in the future the power

receivers could be made into any shape including that of a double-a battery and

that means that ordinary devices could be converted to wireless power without

any modification at all for a long time bricks and water shops have been trying

to keep up with online retailers who have the added benefits of being able to

keep track of their customers habits as well as provide very easy ways of paying

well here's one way that we could see some of those features brought into the

real world by retrofitting existing stores I poly just uses off-the-shelf

cameras one up here to track the customers and others underneath here to

take a look at the products and the customers interactions with them but the

real work is happening here in the AI algorithms where it's recognizing all

the products off the shelf and the customers interactions with them but the

AI is using the main camera here to keep track of what customers are doing

throughout the store it can recognize faces identify clothes and follow their

movements through the combination of the customer being recognized and the

products that they're picking up being identified when they get to the checkout

they don't even need to scan the items they just need to pay and if they agree

to being remembered for next time then all they need to do is go and pick

up their products and they can take them away

one thing which isn't making such a big noise this week is virtual reality is VR

in the last chance

billions have been poured into VR but the headsets just aren't selling in the

way the companies had hoped there are multiple problems the setup is too

difficult content is not compelling enough and unless it's treated very

carefully the VR experience can and has made me feel sick the manufacturers are

not going to give up on this though the oculus go will be launched around March

now that's a bit like Samsung's gear VR I mean you don't need a phone for it to

work it's all built in and it will be around $200 HTC announced here that

they're to release the vive Pro later this year it's a 3k headset which will

improve resolution significantly and keep the vibe ahead of the field and

while oculus allows three degrees of movement which is that way that way and

that way HTC has just launched its vive focus in

China which allows six degrees of movement

which is that that and that and also three dimensions of movement in space

and that's using inside out tracking which means there are no sensors or

lighthouses telling you where the headset is the headset itself works out

where it is in the environment now this is the next level for VR

still with magic leap releasing its augmented reality hololens alike later

this year and with tons of AR activity here like this from horizon a cheap flat

pack way of building your own AR headset using a cardboard kit and a phone VR

continues to face a tough battle with AR which just seems a bit more ready to

make its mark if you ask me oh I feel better for that anyway it's time to move

on now here comes Lara with some high-tech ways to stop thieves this

year's show a fair few anti-theft devices have been launched and I've got

my hands on some of them

and this is a prototype burglar prevention system it aims to replicate

what a house looks and sounds like when your home so through the app you can

preset it with the way that you live your life when you're going to be

playing music watching a film talking in the kitchen and when the lights are

going to be going on and off or you could simply wild about what's happening

in the house eventually the plan would be that a group of synchronized devices

could work through the house to make it look like natural movement from room to

room but of course that would add to the cost this is a smart safe now I have to

admit when I received it I did think this is very light very flimsy and how

could it possibly be a safe because you could just steal this if you have

something valuable inside but anyway it seems that the technology here could

actually be used in bigger stronger safes and this particular model is

possibly better for putting medicine in or just something that you want to keep

away from the kids or other people visiting your house so how it works

it of course can x-pyr a smartphone app which means that you can remotely open

the safe should you wish to actually do that and you'll also receive alerts if

anybody tries to tamper with it so let's set it up somewhere that it can remain

in a steady place this particular model has wings that extend to hold it into

place so if I put it here at the back of the shelf

and do this let me put something in here let me try and cancel with it and see

what happens

it's quite firmly attached although a little bit more forcefully pull it out

yeah there we go all right although I'm off with a sesh

Oh looks like it could be quite easy to open as well Omar you've got any ideas

let me try and find something that might be a bit better for security it's not

just about the home though this bag aims to keep your belongings safe when you're

out and about so if you're on a train or a plane and you've had to leave your bag

somewhere else then you might want to activate this tamper alert which uses

this RFID card to turn it on and off so if anybody tries to open your bag and it

sounds like that but if the issue is actually you forgetting things then this

loss prevention device aims to come to the rescue

now you can attach it to any given item and the company's software will learn

your habits so what time and where you take that item and if you do something

that seems out of the ordinary they can send your reminder before you've even

had a chance to forget it eventually they're even hoping to be

able to do things like access travel details through your email so you could

get a reminder to pick up your passport without running the risk of leaving

without it the device does still seem a little bit big right now but they are

trying to get a smaller version ready ahead of launch great if it works which

was generally the theme with most of what I tested that was Lara and this is

the valo copter it's a passenger drone made by a German

company and this one actually has flown but constantly reminded that the future

of transport is going to be amazing here at CES although there's no guarantee

that that is true case in point remember the Faraday future electric car

no show business anyway while Faraday gets its future in

order enter Buyten now this is a startup staffed by some pretty impressive people

who've come up with basically a computer on wheels will this car actually work

well Dave Lee was given exclusive access to it before and during CES

now I'll be honest this wasn't the most thrilling test-drive of my life worried

about being spotted before their big CES unveiling the team behind the bytes and

car only let us drive slowly around an unmarked warehouse just off the Las

Vegas Strip but it was very interesting the company has created what's

essentially a mobile supercomputer they say it has more in common with your

smartphone than it does a typical car and I agree for the first time I've been

impressed by a car not because of its performance on the road but because of

its operating system though the reason behind button is we want to be the

company bringing into the market the first real smart car vehicle has been

designed and created by a suitably qualified team made up of former BMW and

Apple engineers inside you'll see the dashboard has been completely reimagined

the gesture control system does look a bit imprecise and quite fiddly not ideal

when you're driving along a motorway at 70 miles an hour this looks like a

really distracting driving situation so isn't this actually quite dangerous to

have this in front of you so the key is about customization when you are in

drive mode we will actually disable certain features you won't be able to