CES 2021 Liveblog: Prime Highlights From the Show

Who requirements buttons when you have screens? Debuting on the Mercedes-Benz EQS electrical luxury sedan this yr, the MBUX Hyperscreen is a 55.5-inch-extensive display screen that spans the entire dashboard. It is manufactured up of a few haptic OLED touchscreens under 1 steady piece of Corning Gorilla glass. The driver and entrance passenger just about every get a broad 12- by 3-inch display screen, with an 18-inch display screen amongst them for navigation, HVAC controls, smartphone messaging, and media controls. The passenger screen can perform online video, and the driver show demonstrates gauges and all the details you’d assume, these as the remaining assortment on the electric motor vehicle.

Mercedes’ push briefing also showed off a UFO graphic that zooms around on the display to demonstrate the g-drive the car is undergoing in genuine-time. Why they selected to measure g-force, I do not know. Automakers now wrestle to maintain the driver’s data feed straightforward to fully grasp, and drivers really don’t require to know g-forces. Hopefully it can be disabled.

The MBUX Hyperscreen was made totally in-dwelling by Mercedes-Benz, and it involves 8 CPU cores (processor unfamiliar) and 24 GB of RAM to power it. The tech will trickle to other Mercedes styles right after its debut on the EQS, assuming prospective buyers seriously do want an all-contact interface.

Understand much more about the MBUX Hyperscreen right here.

—Matt Jancer

Philips Is All In on Enamel and Sleep

Philips normally tends to make highly effective and smooth electric toothbrushes, and like most toothbrush companies as of late, it’s been incorporating sensible options into them. Its most recent is the Sonicare 9900 Prestige, with automobile-syncing so you don’t have to have an application open up each and every time you brush (something we observed and beloved with the Colgate Hum). It also statements to personalize your brushing working experience, by sensing your strategy and adapting in real time. So if you are likely to apply as well a great deal force, it can quickly alter the depth.

Philips also has a tele-dentistry provider, so you can get answers to your tooth considerations without venturing into the Covid-infested earth.

If you treatment extra about your rest, the corporation also debuted a snooze apnea symptoms quiz and mask selector at CES. Sufferers get a photo taken of their encounter that will ascertain the finest mask for them to wear, which will hopefully make sleeping in a comic-e book-villain-design and style mask a little bit more comfy. Even so, that will have to be done at a taking part area, which could possibly not be readily available to everyone. 

—Medea Giordano

Cobalt-Cost-free Batteries Are Coming

Now at CES, Panasonic touted new batteries with fewer than 5 p.c cobalt and pledged to work towards cobalt-absolutely free batteries “in the following couple of a long time.”

Lithium-ion batteries electricity just about each individual gadget you own, but prospects are you will not know substantially about what’s within your battery. Lithium batteries will not just contain lithium, they also use cobalt as a cathode content in the battery. These days properly over 50 % of the world’s cobalt source arrives from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and many investigations have located kid labor and risky operating ailments rife within just the cobalt source chain.

Panasonic is 1 of the largest lithium-ion battery producers in the world and provides the cells for Tesla’s battery packs.

—Scott Gilbertson

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