There’s an element of predictability when it comes to what we’ll see every year at the Las Vegas tech bonanza CES. Big TVs? Tick. Home robots that never go on sale? Tick. An unnecessarily overdesigned toothbrush? Tick.
Every CES also brings its standout trends that dominate the big, flashy press conferences, the show floor and the late-night chatter at casino bars. Some of the biggest trends at this week’s CES 2024 were easy to foresee; a massive emphasis on AI, for example. Others, such as transparent screens and new solutions to take your house off the grid, were only discernible once we’d scoured the show floors of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Here are our key takeaways, distilled for you based on everything CNET’s editors have seen, tested and played with.
AI in everything
You have about as much chance of winning at the slot machines as finding a company that doesn’t boast of its AI prowess at CES 2024. This is far from the first time AI-powered products could be found amid the booths, but this is truly the year that AI is dominating the show.
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The way it’s showing up, says Forrester principal analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee, is “a layer of intelligence that sits atop a traditional product or service to enhance the customer experience.” He points to products such as bird feeders to identify birds and pillows that adjust to reduce snoring as key examples.
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What we’re witnessing right now is the integration of major breakthroughs in AI that have occurred in the past year or so — such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT — into devices. “There’s no question that AI — specifically generative AI — is going to be a big driver of new products and services,” says CNET’s AI guru Connie Guglielmo.
Guglielmo highlights Microsoft’s decision to change up the Windows keyboard for the first time in nearly 30 years, adding a button that provides a direct…
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