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We're officially on day two of CES 2022, and despite being hampered somewhat by pandemic-related precautions, exhibitors have already dropped a dizzying amount of awesome new tech on us this year. Here's a quick recap of the highlights so far! |
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Well, here's a surprise. After more than two years of speculation around Samsung's plans to sell a quantum dot-OLED (QD-OLED) TV, it turns out that Sony is going to be the first company to market a TV based on the new hybrid display technology. The Google TV-powered Master Series A95K will come in 55- and 65-inch screen sizes when retail availability and pricing is announced in spring 2022.
QD-OLED is a holy grail of sorts when it comes to TV display technology as it merges the impressive color and brightness characteristics of quantum dots with with the perfect blacks and infinite contrast offered by an OLED TV's self-illuminating pixels. In theory, such a TV should be capable of exceptional brightness — something we normally associate with QLED TVs — while maintaining both the inky blacks and color accuracy that OLED is known for, while avoiding the halo or blooming effect found on non-OLED TVs. Check out our full QD-OLED explainer for more info on this novel display tech.
Does Sony's Master Series A95K deliver on these lofty promises? It's too soon to say as Sony is being tight-lipped when it comes to actual specifications, saying only that its new QD-OLED panel "boosts color brightness by up to 200% compared to conventional TVs." We don't know if Sony means LED TVs, QLED TVs, or OLED TVs when it says "conventional TVs" but it sounds like it's trying to avoid any statements that compare QD-OLED directly to QLED or OLED models.
Instead, the company seems more focused on QD-OLED's color capabilities. It has even given the A95K a new version of its Triluminos technology, called XR Triluminos Max, which "delivers our widest color palette and reproduces naturally beautiful shades and hues," according to Sony. |
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In Disney's 1963 classic The Sword in the Stone, there's a scene where the wizard Merlin has to pack for a trip, but instead of packing light as a normal person might do, he flicks his wand, sings a silly incantation, and shrinks down everything in his house — books, dishes, and even furniture — so that it fits into a small handbag.
Here in the real world, that obviously isn't possible. You can't just shrink large objects and make them fit into smaller spaces. But despite these seemingly inalienable limitations on the physical world, that's exactly what MIT spinoff Brelyon has done with display technology.
The company's Ultra Reality screen (which I got a chance to check out ahead of its debut at CES 2022 this week) essentially shrinks down a 122-inch 3D display into a 32-inch monitor and uses some really clever visual tricks to make it appear as though you're looking at an enormous screen from approximately 5 feet away.
"Combining the latest technical advances in novel physics and computational optics with the company's patented superconic light-field expansion technologies, Ultra Reality offers a massive 120-inch plus curved display that provides panoramic, cinema-scale virtual images with meters of true optical depth that pans across both eyes, all in a small desktop footprint," explains Brelyon founder and CEO Barmak Heshmat. |
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HEALTH SURVEILLANCE BULBS |
You may be familiar with smart rings and watches telling you whether you're getting any deep sleep. Soon, that expertise could extend to a light bulb near you.
In the last few years, advanced medical tools such as ECG monitors, have made their way into all sorts of personal accessories. But if the early days of CES 2022 are any indication, there's much more yet to come. At CES 2022, smart home device maker, Sengled has offered a glimpse into an upcoming light bulb that can track your sleep and heart rate with radar waves.
Sengled's new bulb looks like any traditional lightbulb, but under the hood, it houses a compact radar technology that's designed to measure several vital signs of anyone within range — including sleep quality stats, heart rate, and body temperature. Once the bulb spots any of these vital signs going out of the healthy range, it can update its light's colors to instantly notify the patient or the people around them. |
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