CES Always Has Jewels, Promises, Someing for Everyone

CES Always Has Jewels, Promises, Something for Everyone posted: 15/01/2016

by Andy Marken

The Jewel of the Nile

Dont provoke me, pal! Ive had a tough day here! Im like this with Weinberger! Well be all over you like a cheap suit! - Ralph, The Jewel of the Nile, SLM Productions, 1985

International CES is one of the best AR (alternate reality) events you can attend ever!

Fight your way through the aisles and aisles and aisles and you swear to gawd the world will completely change even beyond Star Wars - The Force Awakens.

I dragged my sorry, beaten behind home knowing exactly what I was going to invest in - electrical power production companies and Musk's gigabattery plant.

Everything will be connected and everything will require power!

Driving Nowhere

The automobile is becoming irrelevant because well, you really don't have to go anywhere to work, buy stuff, order dinner or touch the outside world. But still, the design, the sex appeal gets a guy's motor runnin'.

Faraday Future, the Chinese electric car company, kicked things off by showing their prototype that will probably never be seen on the road.

Super Sleek - China's Faraday Future unveiled their concept car FFZER01 at CES with 1000 HP, a top speed of 200 MPH and the ability to get to 60 MPH in 3 seconds. The all-electric rocket is like most of the auto industry's concepts, something we may not see on the road but at least the auto folks tell you at the outset it is a concept not a thing.

It's totally impractical. Totally powerful. Totally cool. Totally electric.

Car people are rapidly taking over the consumer electronics industry. There's nowhere they don't want to be by 2020.

Your car will be electronically, automatically attuned to you.

Ford says it will also handle things at the house.

Toyota has set up a $1B lab to solve any/all problems, needs.

The car folks know everyone isn't going to have 1-2 cars in the garage, so Ford, Audi, GM, etc. are taking on Uber and Lyft so you can share the car with your neighbors (whom you probably don't talk too).

Ford's Sync is ready to start your car for you, turn the lights on/off in the house, set your thermostat, warm up your entertainment center, check for thieves, start the robot vacuum everything. To them, the house is just an extension of your life so it should be the center of everything.

The Chevy Bolt, which is going to be a long-range, affordable electric car; was unveiled at CES rather than the Detroit Auto Show because well, all the auto folks were there to show off how cool and with it they really are.

Cars aren't your grandpa's iron horse any more.

The concept cars are totally 2020 plus and the models you see on the dealers' show floors next year are moving to autonomous.

To be a part of the event, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, Pioneer infotainment, Panasonic car solutions and others were everywhere.

With more than 72.5M vehicles sold last year, they're investing heavily for the future so you can expect to see brands disappear through consolidation over the next couple of years.

It's no wonder both Nvidia and Intel want a big piece of the underlying technology.

Note: The concept cars were called concepts for a reason.

Today, the companies come up with these wild CASE (connected autonomous shared electric) ideas, then they spend a couple of years doing something weird - they test them with real consumers to see which of the advanced ideas has traction.

If it doesn't cut the mustard, one idea is replaced with another until they (hopefully) get it right five years from now.

Right now, it's all about saving time, money and the environment.

Each manufacturer had great ideas for their solution for me until I returned from Vegas.

Legacy Things - The CE industry (which now includes cars) usually develops a complete solution you'll love but unfortunately, you also have a couple of other great solutions sitting around that don't talk to the new thing so you have a control for each of your things that don't talk to the other things. Great, just freakin' great!

We have three different, fairly new keyless cars. Each has the biggest, blackest, ugliest control unit. Since I don't decide which car I'm going to drive ahead of time, I carry all three with me.

Smart Home

There had to be maybe a thousand different smart home complete, partial, little bit solutions at the show to keep me safe, keep me warm, keep me at home.

They were all so cool it was hard to choose the ones you wanted installed in your home.

Baby monitors, thermostats, kitchen gadgets and other smart devices were all designed to add convenience to your daily life, even if you didn't know you needed em.

Home Sweet Connected Home - All of the major players in the industry put their best home solutions forward at CES, showing how everything worked beautifully together to take care of you. Most folks start with safety and security, and then think about the rest of the smart home.

The big hitters had their own homes - Panasonic, LG, Samsung and others had end-to-end solutions for you from the moment someone walked up to the house to when you tucked yourself into bed at night.

And all of them worked together so easily - at least on the show floor.

Even the little robovacs knew their place!

They made their way around the beer robot mixology center diet handling spoons/forks and well, you name it.

Of course, you had to be amazed at Samsung's refrigerator that kept track of when and how frequently you opened the door and sent the information somewhere.

Then too, there was a remote screen you could write notes to yourself and the family so you wouldn't forget what you were going to talk about when you got home.

Cool Brain - With the kitchen being the cent

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