CES 2018: The best of this year's show
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Vuzix Blade Smart Sunglasses. (Credit: Vuzix)
This year's CES had a lot of interesting and exciting new gadgets, but there were a few that stood out from the crowd.
Fox News has compiled a list of five categories and the offerings that stood out from the competition.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Best wearable: Smart glasses used Amazon’s Alexa
Vuzix Blade Smart Sunglasses made a lot of “best of” lists this year at CES and for good reason – Vuzix could achieve what Google Glass didn’t. It allows you to keep your head up while interacting with your device.
The Vuzix glasses have a couple of standout features, including the ability to query Alexa, Amazon’s voice-enabled intelligent personal assistant.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Another is augmented reality, which lets you interact with objects floating in front of the device. Vuzix COO Paul Boris gave an example of a Harvard Business Review Android app downloaded to the glasses. On top of the HBR static page, the glasses generate a moving 3D image (in this case robots making paper airplanes).
In a Vuzix video released this week, a jogger is shown getting a phone call on the glasses and seeing directions for the running course floating in front of him as he jogs.
Vuzix will target enterprise customers first, then consumers.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The glasses, which run Android, will initially be priced at $1,000 but that price will likely come down later. The company is targeting the second-quarter for a consumer version.
Best gaming PC: Digital Storm Project Spark
The gaming PC company launched what it called its "smallest high performance PC ever.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The gaming rig is only 12 inches tall and 4 inches wide but “filled with enthusiast-level components as well as custom liquid-cooling piping,” according to PC Mag.
Pricing starts at $1,299 but you can max it out with high-end components like an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and an Intel Core i7-8700K processor.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Best concept car: Byton
(Byton concept electric vehicle. Credit: Byton)
The Chinese brand is trying to take the computer-on-wheels proposition (a Tesla hallmark) to the next level.
Multiple modems and integrated flat antennas provide a bandwidth of up to 1,000 megabits per second, the company claims. The roomy infotainment system display – with an extra-wide screen – is controlled by gestures. The car will be designed to offer autonomous driving – the direction all major EV platforms are headed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The concept is slated to have a range of up to 325 miles.
Best smartphone-laptop combination: Razer Project Linda
(Razer Project Linda. Credit: Razer)
It’s not the first time this has been tried but Razer’s is certainly one of the most innovative.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Essentially, it takes a Razer smartphone and docks it where the laptop’s trackpad should be. And, you guessed it, the smartphone display becomes a trackpad. And it can also serve as a second touch screen, in addition to the laptop’s display.
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Best new smartphone: Honor View10
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A sub-brand of Chinese device maker Huawei, Honor specializes in offering phones with higher-end specs at a relatively low price.
And the specs of the View10 are pretty impressive: a Huawei Kirin 970 AI processor, 6GB of RAM, 20MP+16MP dual-lens camera, a 6-inch display, and Android 8.0 – all for less than $500.