The Morning After: OLED, concept cars, Chromebooks and more

It's Thursday, January 05, 2017. Welcome to Thursday! Another busy day at Engadget as CES hits its stride. If you’re interested in the future of TV, there’s a whole lot to take in from LG, Samsung and Sony. We saw ASUS smartphones aimed at photographers and early adopters. Plus, we took a nap in the bed of the future. Our CES live stage broadcasts start today, so expect plenty of interviews as well as a little bit of frivolity along the way. No more charging pads True wireless charging is almost ready Energous’ ambitious wireless charging system is coming closer to reality. The startup, which uses RF to charge gadgets from a distance, is finally showing off actual products instead of just talking about some vague future. While the dream of wireless charging at 15 feet is still a while away, its Chipolo Sticker is the start of it all, offering contactless charging…  albeit from just a few inches away. At least it’s something. Car sculptures, anyone? BMW looks to the future of sitting in cars   Most automotive startups want to be exactly where BMW currently sits. "Act like a startup, deliver like a grown-up," said Klaus Frolich, a member of BMW's board of management, at an event at CES in Las Vegas today. It helps explain its "i Inside Future sculpture" we saw here at CES. Follow the leader Sony and Panasonic have OLEDs too, but LG is still showing the way 4K OLEDs were everywhere yesterday at CES. Panasonic brought a version with deeper calibration settings than ever, while Sony took advantage of new tech that uses an OLED screen as a speaker. Meanwhile, LG is not only building the super sharp panels for everyone, but it also showed off its slimmest version yet, with a “wallpaper thin” W edition that mounts flush to the wall. Sponsored Content by Lima This device can replace the Cloud. Take back control over your privacy today. It’s like a non-sliding Priv TCL “Mercury” prototype features a classic BlackBerry keyboard Now that TCL owns the BlackBerry brand, what’s next? Judging by the prototype Cherlynn Low tried out, it plans to build some of the Android-powered phones we wanted to see from RIM. This prototype model features a familiar-looking physical keyboard that doubles as a touchpad and comes pre-loaded with BlackBerry apps.  The first Chromebooks with Google Play preinstalled Samsung’s Chromebook Pro and Plus are beautiful laptops built with Android in mind So what does it look like when someone takes Chromebooks seriously? Probably a lot like the new Chromebook Pro and Plus, two new 12-inch convertible laptops from Samsung featuring an Intel Core M3 and ARM processor, respectively. Otherwise, they have matching high-res touchscreen displays, 32GB of storage and 4GB of RAM, plus access to Google’s Play Store full of Android apps right out of the box. Pricing on the Plus starts at $449; there’s no word yet on the Pro.   Watching a Let’s Play is cheaper and lasts longer GeForce Now offloads PC gaming to the cloud   NVIDIA Shield owners could already stream PC games for $8 a month, and now gamers on PC and Mac have a similar option. Their version of GeForce Now doesn’t rent games. Instead, users buy the games, then rent access to the server that handles the heavy load of rendering them. At least in the demos, it felt a lot like playing a game locally, except this time it costs the price of the game, plus $25 for 20 hours of playtime. How many hours make up the difference to your next GPU upgrade? But wait, there's more... 1. "Mass Effect: Andromeda" has a new trailer and a release date: March 21st 2. Nikon's D5600 DSLR hits the US this month for $800 3. HDMI 2.1 spec should improve 8K, HDR and gaming 4. The next stop for Google's Assistant AI: Android TV 5. Samsung will explain the cause of those Galaxy Note 7 fires "soon" 6. Toyota's Concept-i vehicle is for people who still love driving 7. ASUS' ZenFone AR handles both virtual and augmented reality The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

Editor's Pick: Snapdragon-Powered AR Smartglasses Are the Real Deal

Snapdragon-Powered AR Smartglasses Are the Real Deal

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	Qualcomm on Tuesday debuted its groundbreaking Snapdragon 835 system on a chip at CES. Following the 835 launch, the company joined Osterhout Design Group in unveiling two new ODG augmented reality headsets, the R- 8 and R-9, which are the first Snapdragon 835-powered devices to be announced. The Snapdragon SoC is the first chip built using the ultra- advanced 10nm FinFET process node. [More...]

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Bitcoin Rides the Uncertainty Wave The price of bitcoin soared to a new three-year high on Monday, surpassing the $1,000 mark for the first time, in response to economic and geopolitical uncertainty in China following the U.S. presidential election. The price of bitcoin stood at more than $1,025 in late trading on Tuesday, after rising to nearly $1,030. The market cap was $16.49 billion, according to the CoinDesk index. [More...]

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The Morning After: CES 2017 begins

It's Wednesday, January 04, 2017. Hey, good morning! Welcome to the start of CES 2017! It’s the morning after the first barrage of CES news, and we’ve seen plenty of laptops, the cars of the future and Intel’s latest chips. How’s that for Day One of CES 2017? Tomorrow it gets really busy: we’ll be liveblogging direct from ASUS, LG, Intel, Samsung and Sony’s huge press events. Plus we’ll have plenty more reporting and hands-ons from the ground in Las Vegas.  This is not a prototype, apparently   Faraday Future unveils an actual car   Faraday Future’s high-tech electric FF 91 SUV has finally been unveiled. What can early adopters expect for putting down a $5,000 deposit? Well they can expect to wait, for one. The car still isn’t expected to ship until sometime in 2018. But when they do finally get behind the wheel, they should expect a staggering 1,050 horsepower to push them at least 378 miles. However, half the appeal of FF’s electric car is the sheer amount of embedded technology. There’s no shortage of displays and cameras inside, and a Lidar puck will pop out of the hood when it’s doing it’s self-driving thing. Read all about it -- even if there’s still no price for the car.   There’s even some love for the desktop faithful Intel’s next generation of PC chips are here Only a few months after debuting its seventh-generation CPUs for ultraportables, Intel is rounding things out with new processors for more powerful machines. There's the "H-series,"  targeted at "performance laptops and mobile workstations," and the "S-series," which are meant for more traditional desktops. They'll complement the two other lines of seventh-generation CPUs, which cover ultra-thin designs and faster ultraportables. However, these new chips are definitely more compelling if you're upgrading from a system that's a few years old. They’re hardly revolutionary when compared with last year’s model. It’s not an OLED TV, but... Samsung's QLED 4K TVs look better thanks to metal Quantum Dots Another CES, another new acronym to attach a TV series. The magic behind Samsung’s new 4K QLED line -- which includes the Q9, Q8 and Q7 sets -- is a refined metal Quantum Dot material. That lets the TVs show off a wider range of color. Samsung says the QLED sets can display 99 percent of the DCI-P3 color space for you image nerds. Plus they can also show off full color volume at any brightness.   Sponsored Content by Belkin The future of charging is here. Download the white paper and get all the facts. Budget bokeh The Honor 6x does the iPhone's portrait trick for $250 Smartphones with dual cameras are about to become the norm now that Apple has jumped aboard the bandwagon. Budget phone maker Honor has just unveiled the $250 Honor 6x, which the company says is the first smartphone "in its price range" to sport two cameras on the rear.  Cherlynn Low is still skeptical that a sub-$300 smartphone can deliver pictures that look as good as those taken with the iPhone 7 Plus, but this at least allows those with tighter budgets to achieve similar effects on their photos.    M-2 may be your go-to Earin's latest wireless earbuds have AirPod-like controls Earin is introducing its second set of wireless earbuds, the M-2, and they promise a taste of AirPod-like control in a more subtle design. You only have to tap an earbud to pause your music or answer a call. They may not be as sophisticated as the AirPods (you won't be talking to Siri as easily), but Earin reckons that simplicity is half of the draw. The new earbuds should hit shelves near the end of the first quarter, although there’s no price tag just yet. No thanks LG's Tone Studio neck speakers aren't as ridiculous as you might think When LG announced its neck-worn earbud/speakers, a collective groan rose from the Engadget team. But when Chris Velazco strapped on a pair to test at CES 2017, he found them a lot less ridiculous than he expected. Important caveat, though: he owns (and regularly wears) Snapchat Spectacles. Please be aware. Your old Lego kits can still be made into robots Lego Boost teaches kids how to bring blocks to life with code If you've ever wished your childhood Lego creations could come to life, your dreams are inching closer to reality. Lego’s Boost promises to do just that. The base set contains a combination of sensors, motors and a unique companion app that teaches kids how to code so that they can program their new robot friends. But wait, there's more... 1. Coming up: Get your CES 2017 liveblogs here! 2. Dell's convertible XPS 13 laptop starts at $1,000 3. Scientists confirm a 'new' human organ The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.