The advancing world's fair invades Las Vegas. The over 3.500 exhibitors of the Consumer Electronic Show (Ces), the most important consumer electronics fair in the world, have opened the doors of the exhibition which will remain open until January 9, to show us all the hi-tech innovations that, from now on, could change our lives .
The three giants of electronics are missing, i.e. Apple, Microsoft and Google, who prefer to focus attention on their products only in exclusive events for their brands, but it is an absence that makes no noise, a silence covered by presence of Samsung, LG or even Sony, as well as an infinite theory of more or less large companies and startups.
The highlights of the exhibition, the most succulent courses, are foldable smartphones and 3D printers, with their promise of revolution, but also the so-called "internet of things", the system that allows the connection of cars and homes.
It is precisely the automobile that plays the lion's share at CES. In fact, the internet of things has attracted numerous car manufacturers to the hi-tech fair, in search of futuristic innovations that will take us into the future. In the pavilion dedicated to the sector they will see each other more and more cars that drive themselves, therefore equipped with autonomous driving systems, those for V2I and V2V communication, i.e. vehicle to infrastructure and vehicle to vehicle (cars that communicate with the infrastructures or with each other) and again gestural commands, head-up displays with augmented reality.
Among the novelties, still remaining in the automotive sector, there is the vehicle that searches for a parking space by itself, thanks to the Remote Valet Parking Assistant. To throw it is BMW, which has implemented a system based on innovative sensors that allows the driver to use the Smartwatch to activate a system that guides the vehicle in the direction of the first free spot. But also Daimler unveils a prototype capable of communicating with other cars and with the infrastructure while Audi, Toyota, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler have set out to bring the first vehicles on the road by 2020.
Among the consumer electronic products that are candidates to change our lives there are also the smart glass, the augmented reality glasses, which will no longer be branded only by Google, but also Sony and Vuzik, which promised a new pair of lighter and more comfortable “smart glasses”.
The focal point, in any case, remains that of expanding the domain of the connection: as announced by the Co-CEO of Samsung Yoon Boo Keun, for example, the South Korean giant's goal is to connect every Samsung-branded product to the Internet within the next five years.
Lg presented 7 new ones Oled TV flat and curved with system 2.0 WebOs with Netflix and Youtube pre-installed; then there is the GFx 2 flexible smartphone (curvature radius from 400 to 700 mm), the double internal door fridge and, again to save electricity, the new heat pump hybrid dryer, which recovers and recycles 53% of energy. And then the DD micro washing machine and the others with double drums for twin laundry.
More than a revolution, therefore, and more than the birth of something truly new, we are faced with successive steps of an evolutionary path which, also according to the analyst Patrick Moorhead interviewed by Cor.Com, has the connection at its centre: “ There will be no new product categories, or at least none that are truly significant. What I see instead is the emergence of objects connected to the internet and to each other, some at very affordable prices”.
What makes the difference today are the goals, which continue to improve at a pace that remains surprisingly fast.
