It’s time for the biggest tech conference of the year. Today may not be the first official day of CES 2025, but it is a media day, which means tons of companies holding press conferences to show off their latest products. CES tends to set the stage for the year in tech, and judging by everything that’s already been announced so far, AI will continue to find its way into every possible corner of our lives via the latest gadgets in our pockets and in our homes.
The Engadget team has already landed in LAs Vegas and has begun the hard work of scouring the floral-carpeted show floors to find the most interesting products being shown off here. We’ll be giving out awards for our best things at CES 2025, but before we make those decisions, there’s a lot more to see and touch.
If you want to live vicariously through us, there is no better place to keep up than our liveblog, which will be updated regularly throughout today. You can also tune in for our live coverage of all of the biggest press conferences happening today, including LG, Samsung, Sony and NVIDIA. Keep your browser tab open here, and you might feel like you’re right in Vegas, surrounded by weird robots!
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We’re moving on, and I’m not going to spend any more time trying to figure out what the hell that was. On to laptops!
The focus here appears to be on a new XBOOM speaker, as best I can tell from this word salad.
“Partnering with LG and being part of the LG family is beyond amazing!”
The CEO and founder of FYI.AI!
Oh NO. Will.i.am was just mentioned. It’s not CES without Will.i.am.
LG’s TVs will also work with Xbox Cloud Gaming for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, too. Cool!
LG announced this a few years ago, but they’re rolling it out to a lot more TVs this year at more accessible prices.
OK we’ve now pivoted a bit to the TVs that LG announced over the last few days, including more sets that can use their wireless box. I didn’t quite get the point of this before, but you can plug all your consoles and set-top boxes etc into the wireless box, which then sends the signal to the TV. That makes cord management a lot cleaner and easier to deal with.
Intel CES 2025 press conference livestream
Here’s a better link for the Intel presser, which is starting now.
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Aha, Microsoft Copilot is being used here as an AI background to help people find what they’re looking for. There’s also something pretty cool going on with voice queries here. Assuming you have multiple user profiles, the voice remote can recognize who is talking to it and switch automatically to the appropriate profile.
“Show me the new animated movie with the emotions.” Sure, he didn’t remember the name of Inside Out 2.
Oh snap, beige sweater was told by “babe” that he has to make dinner tomorrow!
Voice queries on TV — “cooking show.” I know when I’m looking for something to watch I ask for the most generic query imaginable rather than a specific show.
“Babe I’m home!” Beige sweater is back! And… I’m concerned that he was talking to LG AI and not his partner. Not sure yet though.
Hold meetings and review and edit documents… in the car. Is life so grim that we can’t even just enjoy a drive without editing a Google doc?