The Best of CES Unveiled 2019: Sphero's Specdrums, Artemis Smart Mirror, LG 17-Inch Ultralight Laptop and More

[SeaFox]

"In fiscal year 2017, Apple spent $11.58 billion on research and development activities"

Patents are not products.

 

[haruhiko]

Only on new TVs? Not even for 2018 models?

 

[MDF314159265]

"In fiscal year 2017, Apple spent $11.58 billion on research and development activities"

$11.6B poorly spent. What to show for all that? Give me $1M (USD) and I’ll give them 3 years of solid future-thinking innovation.

Isn’t a can of beer already the equivalent of a Keurig cup for beer? I guess I need to read more details on that, must be missing something!

Nope! Find a cup of coffee made weeks/months ago, canned and shipped in a truck subjected to unthinkable vibration and that’s the equivalent to a can of beer. Still, LG is missing something here. Fresh beer is nice, but there’s something to brewing your own beer that can’t be “cheated.” Or the excitement of driving to your favorite local brewery to get a growler full of your favorite IPA - like Disneyland for the finest of adults.

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Yep.

NOBODY TALKING ABOUT LG MICROBREW????

It’ll flop.
[doublepost=1546922848][/doublepost]Samsung has brought absolutely nothing new or unique. Shame. I still have a “6 series” Samsung from 2007 that is still so beautiful and bright. Simple, but stunning.

As for the mirror - LOVE this! It is functional and that “touchless” touch shows they’ve really thought this one through. Get price down to $3k and 1:3 people will have one in their home by 2025 (US estimate).

 

[Solomani]

Remember when Apple was actually the most innovative? Like actually creating new and exciting stuff?
I think they stopped as they felt no need to do anything but iPhones. It was the simplest and cheapest.
Why to invest in new R&D when you can sell 10,000 more iPhones just like that
and earn way more money without spending any?

You don't read the Apple news much, do you? (Just the last couple of years) Apple is spending billions in AI alone (which includes buying out several AI startup companies, costing Apple many hundreds of millions so far).

They might not be the "best" at things right now (e.g. AI), but they are still serious about investing in R&D.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

Also, don't forget to throttle the chipset, ditch all the ports, solder all the parts together to eliminate upgradability, glue the entire thing together into a $5000 disposable blob. As cynical as I feel that is, I also suspect they know they can't get away with all that on such a grand scale, and, that inability to do so is why they don't do a 17".

You forgot that they have to work hard to make the keyboard unreliable

 

[WatchFromAfar]

You don't read the Apple news much, do you? (Just the last couple of years) Apple is spending billions in AI alone (which includes buying out several AI startup companies, costing Apple many hundreds of millions so far).

They might not be the "best" at things right now (e.g. AI), but they are still serious about investing in R&D.

While I agree with what you're trying to say "buying out several AI startup companies" is not spending money doing R&D; it's buying someone else's R&D.

 

[Khedron]

Does it ever get old repeating the same tired script over and over and over again?

Ask Tim.

 

[TheFluffyDuck]

"In fiscal year 2017, Apple spent $11.58 billion on research and development activities"

With great breakthrough innovations like, "Just throttle the CPU". Or, "who needs discreet graphics cards in 2018?", Or my favourite "put USB-C in an iPad". Vision only $11b can buy.

 

[The Cappy]

Hey Apple, how about bringing back the 17-inch MacBook?!

Or a MacRumors article on how to make a hackintosh from that 17" one in the vid.

 

[The Captain]

17 inch MacBook could certainly be lighter and thinner today. But I’m not sure I would want another one, with the power and simplicity of USB-C, and affordable monitors, the large laptop display seems unnecessary. Probably impractical to many business travelers too. Try using that on a plane today, LOL. I think I have come to love the 15 inch display.

I guess it all depends on what you do when you travel. I couldn't care less about it on the plane, that's the only time I can sleep. It's when I get to the client and we're all sitting back stage and I have three different people all crowded around trying to approve things and make changes that I wish to the computer gods I could have a 17inch or bigger laptop.

 

[mellofello]

Missed the coolest part about that monitor. It actually pivots down if you want to get a close look at things.

 

[jimmueller]

The laptop has very thin bezels so it has only a slightly larger footprint than the 15 inch MacBook Pro.

I imagine it would be almost impossible as a first time hackintosh project, but it does make me say "Hmmmm...".
My wife and I have our 2011 17" MacBook Pros on our lap-desks most of the day, so a lighter book sounds very attractive. Only 100Mb Ethernet and that's via a USB-C dongle. Maybe not.

 

[Qu1ckset]

the stand on that Samsung monitor is awesome!

 

[Tech198]

I like the mirror... I don't think you'd wanna leave . i'll probably pass at the suitcase that follows you round..

That looks good, i'd rather my hand being attached to it....