Business Traveler, February/March 2019
F E B R U A R Y M A R C H 2 0 1 9 b u s i n e s s t r a v e l e r u s a c o m 2 5 C E S 2 0 1 9 T he annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the place to go to find out what the next lifestyle disruptions will be what the next cool must haves will look like and whether there really is a future for driverless cars and Google glass And CES 2019 did not disappoint in delivering the big news Glass is back This time however those spectacles talk to Alexa read the weather provide directions take photos and video and display the news in a stunning 3 D hologram style specter through the lenses for 1000 The Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses made a spectacle at the show with a whole room dedicated to Amazon Alexa connected products that could do everything from talk to your bike to pump breast milk on command Uber too chose the show to announce its latest endeavor beyond driverless cars Pilotless air transportation Yes Uber Air is on course to disrupt the way we get from skyscraper to skyscraper UBTECH Robotics a global leader in intelligent humanoid robotics and AI technologies strutted out its Walker prototype a robot with arms and legs that take this machine from a talking head to almost human on the robot evolutionary scale The bipedal humanoid robot now includes fully functional arms and hands with capabilities for a number of business assisting functions Meanwhile LG always a big name at CES did not disappoint It rolled out its latest concept in redefining the television box the 65 inch OLED display on flexible glass that rolls up and down giving you that state ofthe art 4K screen when you want it and making it all but disappear when you dont Additionally LG threw its hat into the 8K TV ring with some new displays brandishing 33 million pixel clarity And not to be outdone in the AI department LGs 2019 TVs are adding IQ points Its ThinQ brand AI has been integrated to offer users great suggestions for their viewing tastes On top of that it wraps into contextual conversations through Amazon Alexa to let users ask questions make demands and connect into other Alexa enabled devices through their TV TECH FOR THE ROAD For the near term technology hidden in the crowded aisles and booth stuck behind suddenly awake robots and new 8K television screens some travel gadgets emerged that may make days on the road a little more comfortable Business Traveler sifted through some 4500 new fangled tech solutions that were looking for a problem to solve and came up with a dazzling dozen suitable for taking on the road Left UBTECH Robotics Walker Above LG OLED display on flexible glass
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