The CES in Las Vegas ended Friday January 10 after four days of demonstrations and hustle and bustle in the aisles of its exhibition centers. A look back at ten innovations and key moments that marked this 2020 edition of the world fair for technological innovation.
City of the future
A city built from scratch, at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, but well inhabited by at least 2,000 residents. This is the slightly crazy project presented by Toyota . Called Woven City, this prototype of the city of the future will be a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The objective for the Japanese giant: to test its technologies, whether related to urban mobility, the autonomous car, service robotics, the connected and intelligent home.
Pet ball
At the time of his keynote , the president of the consumer products division of Samsung , HS Kim, was not alone. He showed up with this little spherical robot called Ballie. A mobile domestic companion, he presents himself as the conductor of the smart home, capable of interacting with connected equipment (TV, speaker, vacuum cleaner, etc.), making reminders to the owner, detecting falls for the elderly or entertaining pets in the absence of their owner.
Robots in the toilet
There were of course exoskeletons, educational robots, for the fields or for sorting waste. But the robot that made the buzz on the web is Charmin Rollbot, presented by the American consumer giant Procter & Gamble . Its role: you bring paper when you are in the toilet and you do not have any more. You had to dare!
Vertical television
To conquer millennials, Samsung relies on this rotary television, with a screen capable of moving from horizontal to vertical like on a smartphone. The goal is also to find on the television the image of the phone, with a switch from landscape to portrait mode which automatically follows that of the smartphone for holders of a Samsung Galaxy.
Windshield of the future
The cockpit of the future was present in this 2020 edition of CES. In the one imagined by BMW for the autonomous car, the front window of the vehicle is actually a screen. The latter can broadcast films, give information on the outside environment or offer a relaxing experience.
The computer becomes foldable
After Samsung has entered the era of foldable smartphones, the Chinese manufacturer Lenovo inaugurates that of foldable PCs with its ThinkPad X1 Fold. This portable PC of just under 1 kilo folds and unfolds to offer a form dedicated to transport and storage, another for computer use. Unfolded, it looks like a 13.3-inch tablet.
Flying taxis
What if in 2023 you took a flying taxi to get around town? This is what the Korean Hyundai aims to offer, to believe the model he unveiled at CES . This electric and autonomous aircraft project, capable of carrying four people, is being carried out with Uber .
Ultra-realistic avatars
For weeks, the subsidiary of Samsung StarLabs has maintained the suspense on its mysterious Neon project, communicating on "artificial humans". Everyone therefore rushed to the Neon stand. But many have been disappointed. The project is rather that of avatars, certainly utra-realistic but for the moment constructed from images of humans. And a question remains unanswered: what will they be used for?
Electric cargo bike
The French start-up Wello unveiled Family, an electrically assisted cargo bike . Capable of carrying an adult or two children in addition to the driver, it has a range of 60 to 100 km and can be recharged from the mains or via its solar panels.
Special guest this year at CES. Ivanka Trump, daughter and Advisor to the President of the United States Donald Trump, answered questions from Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) organizer of the exhibition, on the theme of the future of work. The speech turned out to be an exercise in promoting White House policy in the fight against unemployment . Enough to fuel the controversy aroused by the announcement of this conference, several tech personalities regretting that more competent experts were not invited .
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