Apple also trains its tentacles on television. In fact, there are growing hints that Apple will start creating TV shows of its own production as early as 2017, with which it would challenge the television company HBO and the video-on-demand provider Netflix, which are rapidly working on content of their own production.
At CES 2017, Asus presented the Asus ZenFone AR smartphone, which boasts a camera with Tango technology (the first to dance it was the Lenovo Phab2 Pro), which allows you to perceive the world around you, move around and navigate even in interior. It also supports Google Daydream virtual reality technology. Engineers have equipped it with as much as 8 GB of system memory, which is another thing that makes it unique. Is this the best smartphone in the world?
How many times have you been reading or studying in the library when you were interrupted by a phone call and had to rush out? Now you won't have to. Meet Hushme, probably one of the most bizarre innovations we've come across recently, but also by far the most useful. The technological mouth mask with headphones allows you to enjoy a private conversation in public without disturbing others. An unusual headset is a silencer.
The ad made by Samsung for the Indian audience is winning the hearts of people all over the world. If it doesn't touch you, you have a stone instead of a heart.
It's hard to make a desktop computer that stands out these days. But it's not impossible. This is demonstrated by Dell, which has equipped its new Dell XPS 27 all-in-one computer with as many as 10 speakers and promises the best sound among computers, which is an often overlooked category.
The Taiwanese tech giant HTC brought its new showpiece to Las Vegas at CES 2017, the HTC U Ultra smartphone, which belongs to the newly formed U family. It has a secondary screen and a personal assistant, but, like the iPhone 7, it was left without the classic headphone jack.
It's been quite some time since movies or TV series were last turned into an 8-bit game where the main character moves alone. Fortunately, Netflix is here to (unexpectedly) fill that void.
While 4K resolution has been well established recently, the development is already a step further. The next logical step is four times as many points, or a format known as 8K. This type of screen was also presented by Dell at CES 2017. The UltraSharp 32 Ultra HD 8K has 33 million dots and is capable of displaying a billion colors.
The legendary Game Boy, the simple 8-bit portable game console that celebrated a quarter of a century in 2014, is making a comeback. His reincarnation goes by the name of Super Retro Boy, which was not made by Nintendo as an original, but by Retro Bit. He presented the replica at CES 2017.
At the consumer technology fair CES 2017, Samsung presented the Samsung Odyssey family of gaming notebooks, which bring plenty of fun to computer game lovers, as they do not 'freeze' even when we start playing the most demanding games.
Ever since Google made it possible to run Android mobile apps on Chromebook OS devices, new devices for the platform have been popping up on the market. Samsung has also added its bell, presenting two Chromebook laptops at the CES 2017 – Samsung Chromebook Plus and Samsung Chromebook Pro, which have much more muscle than classic Chromebook laptops.
HMD Global, the owner of the license to use the Nokia brand, has introduced the Nokia 6 smartphone, the first Nokia to run the Android operating system. However, this will not be the only Nokia that HMD Global will present this year. Can Nokia return to its former glory?