The Year of Innovation: A Look at CES 2017

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the most highly anticipated events in the tech world, and this year's event did not disappoint. As we sat down with our newest member of the podcast team, David, to discuss all things CES, it was clear that the excitement was palpable.

For David, who had jumped back into the scene after a few years away, it was his first time experiencing CES firsthand. "I'm excited for the accessories," he said, "cuz they announced all these interesting stuff, like you can put them on things so that people like you don't trip over them." He mentioned specifically the wireless adapter that goes on the Vive and adds a battery pack to it, which apparently has very low latency. David was eager to try out the new accessory and see how it could improve his VR experience.

As we delved deeper into our conversation, it became clear that David's enthusiasm wasn't the only thing in store for us at CES 2017. With companies like Qualcomm showcasing their latest innovations, it was clear that this year's event would be one to remember. "Qualcomm is always a highlight for me," said David, referencing the company's new process release, which promised exciting developments for phone enthusiasts just around the corner.

For our regular listener Stephen, who had been following the tech news scene for over five years, CES was a bit of a special event. He jokingly remarked on how he had been to several CES events before and never managed to score one of those coveted 5-year-old CES press badges. Despite this, he was still excited to be there and see what new developments the show would bring.

As we talked about some of the other highlights from CES 2017, it became clear that this year's event had a lot to offer for tech enthusiasts. From VR accessories like Samsung's innovative seat with a full-on gimbal around it to promises of low-latency wireless adapters, there was something for everyone at the show.

One of the standout moments came when David mentioned his excitement about upcoming VR prototypes from companies like Valva. "A lot of VR stuff is what I'm mostly excited about," he said. It seems that this year's CES had a strong focus on innovation and pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible in the world of virtual reality.

As we wrapped up our conversation, it became clear that David's first experience at CES 2017 would be one to remember. With its promise of exciting new developments and innovative products, it seemed like this year's event had set a high bar for future shows. As with all things tech, only time will tell if these promises will come to fruition, but one thing is certain: we can't wait to see what the future holds.

CES 2017: A Look at Some of the Highlights

One highlight that caught our attention was Samsung's innovative VR accessory - a seat with a full-on gimbal around it. This feature allowed users to experience the thrill of roller coasters in the comfort of their own homes, all without having to leave the safety of their couches.

Another exciting development from CES 2017 came in the form of Qualcomm's new process release. As promised, this means that we can expect some exciting developments for phone enthusiasts just around the corner.

Valva, a company known for its VR headsets, also made waves at CES 2017 with promises of new VR prototypes. David was particularly excited about these developments, mentioning specifically the prospect of using their products in everyday life - whether it be to experience the thrill of roller coasters or simply to enjoy some gaming fun.

For those who may not have had a chance to experience all that CES 2017 had to offer, don't worry - we'll be bringing you updates and insights from the show throughout the coming days. From phone rumors to VR innovations, it seems like this year's event was one for the books.

As we concluded our conversation with David, it became clear that his first experience at CES 2017 would not be his last. With its promise of exciting new developments and innovative products, it seemed like this year's show had set a high bar for future events. We can't wait to see what the future holds - stay tuned for more updates from Android Authority and our other sites as we continue to cover all things tech.

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he's right in the middle so I'm making sure he's sticking around Johnny Feist of course howy folks and two of our illustrious guests one has been on the podcast many many times before tell the people your name Nicole Scott of Mobile Geeks yeah yeah all right that sounded really exciting yeah hey TR and then of course oh hey it me I use it me is that what you said it me all right great well it's great to have everybody here it is Day Zero part two Zer cuz we were here yesterday too weed not to talk about today was Zer So Yesterday was- two this isus one yday okay yesterday was netive 1 all right so we're officially in day Zero we have C starts tomorrow yes we always had this problem no one knew when anything thing was yeah just so our listeners know this is what happens at the end of the early days we come to an event like this they have free alcohol free food and we have to wind down so that's why we have all this here cheers everybody Che cheers oh my brother just appeared R round two all right guys do the drinking thing yeah David's a little young so he needs to learn these things all right guys we were a to see a pretty good amount of stuff today and yesterday I don't know what you guys have seen so I guess everything every freaking so I have a question the whole convention yeah so I'm going to go and do the first podcast like just saying cuz we don't know what's going to happen at the show but of of what you've seen so far that you can talk about that's not on NDA still obviously what you don't want me to break an NDA well yeah or maybe I do and less competition I'm kidding what would you what is the best thing that you guys have seen so far what what got you jazzed I like I like seeing the the unnamed Blackberry the the Mercury just because it's something that I mean I wasn't really expecting I mean maybe I should n on that man no we got our video up it's not n anymore it's good fully all right all right well the uh yes I agree with that and you which of you guys got to wait did you any of you get to see the Blackberry yesterday I did not see it I got to see pictur of video you got you shoot the pictures of video what you oh no I didn't I haven't seen it yet you haven't seen it yet I haven't seen it yet have seen it I got I got a small battery D I don't know he turned it over he's watching it um I got to look at it for a little bit it's like the Bold Evolution like the Blackberry Bowl it's more like a priv without the sliding yeah but that's why I think of a b like I don't like it man you really don't like it I like the priv design okay design I don't know cuz if you can slide away the keyboard and no longer use it then why would you ever use it some people like the talk tole feedback I I do too for some situations when you want to type for longer you use the actual keybo it was like a touchpad it has a touchpad basically that was cool thank you so much thank you so much oh my God it's a mug of whis what's happening are you are you in the frame is is she in the frame okay Miriam is here I'm sorry I can only be here for a few minutes I I got you know got clients here and stuff it's complicated oh no problem cents are not question what's the question of what we've seen so far cuz the show hasn't even started yet here or in general in general in general what have you NDA stuff included I need more alcohol H honestly today I got really excited by the isus stuff that I covered it did look really good I mean like you know I'm a camera photography so I'm very excited about this because it's the closest thing on Android hey yeah got more of the team over here it's the closest C have to uh to an iPhone 7 plus on Android at a much more full price point with Incredible battery life well okay this is my question then previous the Asus Zen phone Zoom the original did you even like it though I didn't get a chance to play with one so so I did I spent a long time with that zoom and I reviewed it I I did I did the first one the first one so like the design was like absolute the camera the camera saying what's the no no the camera was actually better than the iPhone on Zoom okay yeah that it name was about it totally won from everything everything I've heard about the sensor wasn't good enough everything else like the Zoom idea was sound the the you know the the the lenses were pretty good the ois it had ois it just had a shitty sensor okay so and this thing doesn't have a shady sensor so hopefully did you mess like it kind of felt it didn't really look that software though that's all software yeah yeah that's cool guys I don't think it's ready for relas trying to help haato say his piece over there to a lot of that's going to have to do with the software right because you know what other phones have that sensor the pixel and the HGC 10 here's the htc10 and the pixel are so far from each other yet they have the same sensor and in fact the 10 is better cuz it has a y so and on the front LS exactly here's my problem with the with the Zen phone 3 Zoom though it's this camera Focus phone but there's no shutter like there's no physical shutter button there's no like it doesn't really seem catered to a photographer other than the fact that it's got optical zoom but neither but neither does the pixel or the iPhone 7 plus they're not like photofocus though yeah yeah yeah no but the the Zen phone line uses the volume button for it's not the same it's not the same it still feels okay I I don't mind doing it so then then there's AR and VR I think AR and VR big part of the show the AR was super cool the AR is cool I played I reviewed for chip chick the the Lenovo one the Tango one I thing is like a massive monster too much but when Tango works it's like magic right it's amazing when Tango works when that's the key word can you can you have a room in your house that has nothing in it I don't think this phone is going to be better until Tango gets better but it's a faster processor it's a much more normal form factor which is exciting the batteries yeah about 33 milliamp hour with Tango and 8 gigs of RAM ouch they have 35 Plus apps I know so you can use all of those apps I don't know it's going to be tough but I'm excited about VR like the OG stuff that's uh with a Snapdragon ag35 I mean they're industrial glasses but like this is an inflection point we're getting to the point point where we're going to be able to do snap glasses that are AR glasses in about 2 years now at the way things are going do you have a pair no not yet we have two yeah we have a couple buy a pair that's a personal question come on obviously you use it you love it yeah I do like it a lot you love the pair it's a great product by the worst company and cuz personally I'm not I'm not I'm not a big fan of the Snapchat like way of things oh there's some love happening back there much I was never a big snapchatter until I got these but that's the whole point of it that is the point yeah so I got sucked into the whole thing Steven's here how's it going what's up brother's up hey hey it's like this is the biggest party we've ever had on the podcast all right we have like every site here yeah it's just a giant block party of just Tech bloggers Bel I know give give a quick intro let's tell other people oh hey uh Stephen Shang from Phone Arena I showed up late I was like 10 minutes I thought you know make an appearance yeah yeah definitely yeah I know they're going to be closing up so we're going to we're going to go overtime I beted cuz it's going to take a while for them to tear down anyway so it's whatever do you know that one time Chris Zigler and I podcasted at CTI and they were literally disassembling the building around us what that sounds good mobile podcast where it was like don't mind the sound of fork clifts around us you did you catch it on video though like people behind you didn't thing you could really hear and the best part was that the construction guys was super chill about they're like don't worry we'll work around you continue your thing it was the coolest thing ever as are tearing up the carpet just leave a circle around youest Jack Island like we started with walls like in a little cubicle and we ended like Solo in the show floor with just a piece of carpet plugged into the wall like the socket oh my go that is an awesome that's too bad that's not on video yeah yeah I will step just came okay man I do want to ask we're we're checking with our guests right now of all the stuff that you've seen so far I'm so sorry I feel like I feel like the circle's becoming a bell curve um but like did um what what of what you've seen so far what do you like the most of what okay I made some bad mistakes today and saw a whole lot of TVs and very few phones but Sony had this really cool uh called like the N it's like an augmented reality neck band what with cameras and it's bizarre but just bizarre enough it might work it's got its own little assistant in it called Nigel which is a great name for a digital assistant they show I don't know about that I must have completely show something similar the the caller you talk to it they showed that at EA okay I L it still working it finally might be getting ready to come out but it's not quite there yet I don't know I need to see that my we go to Sony Booth definitely see I liked it yeah you liked it too I like yeah I liked it a lot Prett interesting the one I saw e i lik so was that your pick no what's your pick my pick is because this is the Android authority podcast I really liked this Windows laptop it's two in one I I I even I even Drew Hearts I even Drew Hearts around my head the yoga the yoga 910 no the yoga 910 oh that thing is sexy I drew Hearts around it I was like I love it for a I had rotic our could have been that it was 8:30 a.m. and I haven't gotten much sleep but I felt things for that laptop wow yeah yeah so so this is this is the one right that's my or this is what you choose to bring this is what I choose to bring to the endroid 30 podcast because I think you guys need some variety in your life well we have look how many people are here there's so many people here all right guys all right well I do want to check with our guys here are they trying to join the podcast or what so I want to check with our guys here what what what have you guys been really jazzed about because we we have split up so much so everyone is seeing different things that and we have this great opportunity where a shot here we're we're covering a lot of different things at the show this year so okay yeah I mean we were at Toyota this morning we checked out their New Concept car it's all electric and that was dope it it was really kind of cool can I see that here oh my God I have a mobile in my in my face huh can I see those words here that's fine not too much though not too much though one of the best things actually never mind the Toyota car which is cool in its own but we went to a little Bluetooth event and and it was supposed to be kind of useless just Bluetooth but did is it took accessories that we already know and it made them kind of great instead of it just being a Bluetooth tile that tracks your watch it or your watch your keys it also is a button that you can control if this and that you know just integrating some of the common simple Tech into neat items all right all right well David uh what have what what have you seen have I seen yeah where have you been yeah where I don't know other than at the house I haven't seen you tell us about Qualcomm qualcom I understand you went tocom Jonathan and I both went to qualcom and didn't get let in because we're not cool enough cuz the line went in like a half an hour early or early they close the doors make sure you're in this with us we saw let's see I went to LG twice uh and they showed off a smart refrigerator was it working the Alexa fridge you Alexa fridge it was working it was working when when I when I couldn't talk to it so I was like that that that might have been my pick okay but I couldn't talk to it so I was like Boo it was it was pretty cool how was it smart it was smart in that it had cameras on the inside of the refrigerator so you could see what you had inside the refrigerator okay uh so you still have to do the work with your mind oh yeah basically yeah you have to see it think about it one thing that was kind of cool from that though is that you could they had an app where you could see what was in your refrigerator like wherever you are so you're at the grocery store and you're like oh crap I have no idea if I have milk or not or if it's expired and so then you can see in your fridge and be like there is didn't Samsung do that last year this happens to me all the time I'm like you know did I get did I get that milk or did I not get that milk and I'm at the store right now you have two milks you have two milks I bought too much milk what are you going to do much milk invariably one is bad and because you can't with a you can't read the label the camera is not good enough to read that's true but but if you insert if you scan the barcode on it it let you uh it would like put the expiration date on it which kind of cool what happens when I don't want to scan all my food though I don't want to scan all my food as I put that's kind of lame you're not you're not a freaking like if you look at companies like fridge cam they will send you push notifications when you're near the store but I don't which is which is more useful than a fridge to be like can I look inside my fridge you got to spend like an hour my favorite thing about the LG press conference was when they played that video of the view from inside the fridge when the woman comes up to it and starts interacting with it but it's seen from inside the fridge it's like I am Hall 9,000 your fridge there was only I will kill you in your sleep one thing that was kind of interesting is they had a like giant like tall robot thing that was like n high and it would just like drive around and apparently they're putting it at airports it has like a giant like LG V10 on the back which is not actually a V10 but just a big touchcreen the V10 is already giant it was like that's true had a more have like a curved ol a curved display an LG Flex yeah basically a flex too and they like I I guess they're putting it in an airport next year it look like a doll SC it was kind of creepy it was a little bit creepy so tall he mentioned LG so I want to put this on the floor now truly wireless earbuds oh just how much of that are we going to see at CES because finally cuz you know Samsung did it but it was like 60 minutes a battery life come on like my workouts last twice as long as that excuse me clearly I have nothing to show for it Sony had some but you can't touch them or get any specs on them and they're sealed in a giant block of acrylic so so now we have LG who have have established themselves with a tone line now coming out with two things but one of them is truly Wireless so I wonder know what you guys thought about that like did you get to see them at all yeah we we got we got a little bit of handson and you went right after us didn't you like what's up didn't you guys go right after us we were at the I don't know it's it's cool but like I I think one of the one of the problems was the um cuz they're called the T freeze and they're cool but the they're kind of ugly and they're kind of big yeah they're they're big and I feel like after a while it's going to weigh down on you and I would take that over the airpods any day though you lot people with those conference W yeah better no but but the the thing is like they're so they're they're big and bulky and they kind of have to be so they can fit into the the the neck band yeah but then they have like three 3 or 4 hours of battery life probably I have to say though the neck I hate it the last theone I hate carrying that thing around that's what the tone is I'd rather have the airpods really thing right here around my neck all the time man okay go to Target get some oral be freaking toothbrush heads put them in your you see did you see that tweet where somebody is protecting their airpods from theft by putting the orbe sticker on there will not fall out of Edgar's ears because he could just put him through his Loop put through my my expansion yeah yeah it be perfect what did what did you think about what did you two think about the the freeze I haven't seen them you haven't seen them yet okay but are you into truly wireless earbuds uh yeah I like the idea of but the battery life is the killer for me that's what I'm saying yeah yeah I didn't think the audio quality was that good they didn't let us parot they didn't let us parot anything yeah so so maybe I just did cuz because I got I got to try them on the on the on the floor okay and then she's like it's loud here and I'm like well it's going to be loud a lot of places yeah headphon should be able to compensate for the loudness but so like may maybe that's why maybe like that part's not done okay but fair enough all right well do you guys really depend on the brand names for these kind of products no I just like just I mean there's small players Kickstarter there's a lot of little players that are doing decent things yeah exactly so which one I got mad because I love T so now that there's a tone version of it I'm like damn it I I go go one and like so I only have one thing to say about this Wireless stuff kids these days punks get off my lawn you'll take my water headphones out of my dead head get your pong out of my kidding just kidding I'm excited for it but like how about the tone Studios then man those things I can't imagine a use case where I would actually want to have those like with the vibration no doubt why don't you just have speakers yeah yeah the only good thing about those was the vibration when they were showing off the gaming that's cool yeah but like for for less than half the price of the the tone Studios you can buy like a really nice uh uh speaker bar for your TV oh yeah totally no I agree it's just like that was the only thing that I could see out of it you could get a UI boom and you tie some nylon around it and then you can put it over your neck like this you underrated speaker the LG clip the because it not only is it I mean it's just this little tiny clip speaker but it has a headphone out so you can use it as a Bluetooth receiver connect your stere that's pretty cool I like that got decent sound as is but yeah okay that's pretty dope all right I think I'm going to head out okay hug around we love you hugs all around people hugs all around it's time for some love I'm killing the filler time killing the filler time with Edgar edar oh we're moving we're moving to the left moving in moving in moving in moving let's continue on the everybody in even closer and continue the conversation no no but but one thing as far as like wireless headphones these jbird uh jbird freedom I love these them to sleep they sound pretty good and the battery life is like 10 hours yeah forever forever I have the x2s who if you lighter are they lighter no I mean those are I mean I don't know I've never used the seriously I had the airpods and I lost one of them and after that it's just like I'm going to keep losing them you know like I don't it's okay though it's okay you you can get another one for just $70 oh of course yeah easy I'm money it's all good I've been playing around with the jaabra Elite Sports and my problem there is they have like three different ear sets uh six different inserts that fit on your ear and I can't find the fit that's right for me it's too many options that's all JS were but like I kind of appreciate it once you get once once you figure out the right size and everything like it's a big pain in the ass at first but then it's like okay well this actually fits my ears like almost perfectly so it's kind ofce the options get if you can find the right one yeah yeah yeah yeah I speaking into the mic when I should not be speaking to the mic so Jabra isn't that the brand for truckers I'm famous for the hugs yeah I'm okay with that yeah it's a it's a brand that that's really popular with long haul truckers well you know they need something with endurance so okay I'll Trust like quality good durability for like cold weather and hot weather sweat red blooded America American earbuds about 15 years ago I tried a set of just normal headphones or well earbuds and there were like I think the LG marshmallow or something and there was just memory foam and it fit any size it was like an earplug you just squish it up shove it in there it was just perfect fit every time sounds hygienic it was interesting I still got them I'm not wearing they were not good but the memory foam was was kind of a neat approach it was just really simple to fit any which ones the ones I reviewed for you for for G what they called I don't remember they had an they had an actual mold that you would like make it put warm water you put into your like mold into your ear the Deb something de I think C last year I have a pair of those at home they're great they're the most comfortable ones I have not the best sound quality but they're the scariest looking yeah yeah cuz you can see like the shap of your ear it's like H that's kind of nasty man nobody's ear really I happened to have like a hair in there when I was molding them so you can see one piece of hair like oh my God and this is how you guarantee no one borrows them you have to worry about how good photography is so when he's taking pictures of the mouse like this is a really good review I I I couldn't hire an ear model you know I don't think those exist they they for earrings and stuff you that's a good point that's a good point um headphones try to think of what else that we've seen that we could talk about uh did you guys like anything anything of note that you guys want to like sort of put out there for our our listeners and viewers have an unproductive I I chose all the worst events to attend I didn't get to see the new Tango phone from uh from Asus it's y I got some catching up to do I heard it was good I heard it was good yeah I mean they said it was pretty dope I'm not going to lie um I'll tell you what though um I will pose another question to you guys because I just saw hopefully who will be our next podcast guest walk by and I have to go get him um you guys talk um I want to hear what you guys are excited about for CES how about that because we don't really know too many things coming into the show which is a little bit weird uh but of what we do know and what maybe you want to see those tacos in the back corner Tac there was the ice cream sandwich place back there hey wait ice cream I got to go why am I hanging here with you guys yeah I'll tell you what Josh I'm excited to go back to Tacos Al Gordo oh my God yes last night after your recommendation oh you did yeah yeah okay cuz Hae was like he can't stop talking about this place so we finally went there he can't stop talk so good those fries are amazing kill me this is the only place they do that yeah yeah yeah because uh it originated in San Diego but uh they don't do the fries really yeah the fries are only in Vegas they're actually originally from Tana not San Diego all right go ahead talk talk Jonathan taring anyways yeah drones last year was amazing for drones yeah is this year going to be better I was thinking this year was going to be good that's that's disappointed what what I was thinking was I was thinking this year was going to be drones VR and electric cars yeah no no no guys electric motorcycles I'm all about it I'm all about it this year I'm going to go to all the booths and cover all all the electric motorcycles so keep it tuned to charge that IO he if if you find some electric motorcycles let me know there's a few that sounds fun one they're based off the San Diego the the LA area yeah they go up to like 90 80 mes hour really for a couple actual motorcycles these are serious motorcycle that's awesome yeah the only problem is recharging but you know I mean if you don't take it out of the city like that's fine yeah see I it's it's for selfish reasons but like I'm really really wanting to find more electric vehicles while we're here just because I rented a gimbal for for the show for the show floor and so far there's been no reason to take it out it's giant it's heavy it's it's annoying you find reasons for something like that exactly a gimbal like a like a stabilizer yeah it's kind of like this thing wearable you want to how about this I'll set up a demo for a motorcycle and then you go backpack you go behind me see the the problem is I have a license you don't the problem is my my my gimbal is a two-handed operation kind of thing so you can you can balance it's fine I'll write a boosted I'll go slow just make sure we get a video of this happening that was hayato's last CES yeah that'll be good blooper real before I go to the hospital you have a great story why it definitely be fun though it'll be fun oh yeah yeah for sure it be funny fun hey I've had accidents in motor CES that's fine broken toss whatever and roll no big deal it's it's whatever so you got the DJI osmo here did you see the release of the new osmo silver last night hold on guys can I get the mic real quick F what's up this is Patrick Norton's iPhone Lord on the back just well the back's not broken he busted out his phone one of the Apparently religion is not helping his broken phone you know how is it still working Patrick nor one of the one of one of the OG Veterans of the tech World bust this thing out we're like what happened he goes this a long story it damn well better I'm glad because I don't need anymore yeah you need a good excuse to be carrying around a phone like that is sentimental or you lost a bet I don't know especially like all he has to do is go to any Huawei event and they like 17 of them yeah last year Android authority what are you doing Nicole come here speak it to the microphone hey speak to the microphone you have the same laptop as me do we have the every laptop Sam laptop Surface Book CL Surface Book my face isn't isn't that the best keyboard you've ever used on laptop before I love it I love it so much I love it I love it I love it # sponsored I like Gap I it I mine too is like my OCD sorry I you have like a little yoga book style like three piecing but come on sty I love the Gap why is it I don't like the Gap I don't like the Gap oh sturdy yeah yeah I don't like the Gap and and like as someone who reviews laptop same same same same same at least this looks sexy yeah sey #m the Gap is taking on a new meting the Gap yeah if this had a 1050 or 1050 TI then I'd be all over it see Android authority loving Windows cleaning Championship here I'm not trying to see my screen it's okay if it's dirty that is a nice looking machine which one is this the blade M yeah the blade no no no that's the I the older version yeah and the accessories with this make it so powerful very beautiful so so um hypothetically if we were to trade like your like this for my MacBook don't don't show that you would be losing about $1,000 that You' be losing about $1,000 you know what do you have what do you have what do you have uh it's the the 15in 2016 with the touch bar yeah the the with the touch bar with the touch Bar D yeah yeah okay I'll try do it right now right now we're going to do this liveing you know here I'll just I'll tell you what it's a very good laptop man I will see you later he left okay you just leave your backpack right there now we know we can find you this is going to work you don't know my my Airbnb address yet I can find out I'll jeels track you down oh he doesn't that's the only address he doesn't have of mine I love how we just turned this podcast into our personal conversation that's kind what we always we do that every week like Jonathan can tell you we do this every week yeah is like over there dancing with some girls I'm he's not working not working you should turn the camera around and show him turn the camera around turn the camera around turn it turn it turn maybe you guys SC yeah we're we're doing it podcast turn turn turn turn borrow microphone borrow microphone all right so okay my name is zai Sano and I'm the multimedia editor for I digital times it's like a gaming and tech nerd website what what does sulai mean sulai s is the type of pepper yes it is it isai oh my God okay so it's long story short my aunt made it up and like like every like Latino out there no I'm not Mexican I'm come from San's Mexican no sano's B yeah San a Mexican pepper no no no Toronto is also a Spanish they didn't have Peppers though I I don't know I don't know I don't know how start talking Peppers back to Fiona that's an Irish name that's all you need to know all right she's Irish so what's up with digital times um I don't know what do you want to know what is it g you might recognize our Pokemon coverage that's what we're best known for we do a lot of guyses um a lot of new stuff a lot of guys yeah a lot of guys a lot of guys yeah all right well yeah but what what have you like I heard the OG stuff yeah cuz like well my area expertise is more gaming so I'm kind of out on my element here released their gaming there's gaming stuff no there's St Samsung released their gaming laptop there hyperx what did you think about the hyperx uh keyboard and mouse and they're not good enough for you no it's okay they didn't get you hyped up no like if I want like a gaming I'll PC I'll build it like I don't I don't want a laptop you know I like GeForce go cuz cuz we just came back from Nvidia I missed that was it hot it was pretty good I'm not going to lie but GeForce go did you see what that was all about okay so imagine this you have a really crappy laptop and you get an app and nvidia's servers and all the graphics cards that are using to stream it to you even on a shitty laptop okay it's so good that there's no lat you can stream Netflix you can stream this yeah have highend games so you don't even need the exactly screen this is the catch though um it is $25 for 20 hours of gameplay and I'm calling it right now I'm calling right now that's at 720p I'm telling you right now it's $25 for 10 hours at 1080p I bet you that's what's going to be the cash what is this AOL by the hour god well what model do you expect was better that's the thing it was worth wait what what do you think about that um no like what no no I'm not going to spend my money on that if I'm going to invest in anything I'm going to invest in a gaming I mean 20 hours of gaming that's like half a final fantasy exactly that's nothing that's nothing you $50 for Fantasy yeah that's prob like a third of Final Fantasy yeah you play it probably like 50 60 I am a completionist so like so I do I do want to like find how you even here right now if you're aist well I see not my area of expertise what about youone what have you seen that you've liked okay any Rob are they are they cute ones like you get in Japan yeah they're cute they're really cute there's the one I believe it probably dances I think it theg yeah the on at LG for me I could theing around your there was a preview and I think they were dancing in the preview I don't know if the actual robot dances but it danced in the preview I don't know ah yes it'll sing to your music robot that will probably make me miss a few flights I feel like I'm just translating for f it just like you know prints out your boarding pass and stuff like that but I probably be like messing with it my phone can't do that right hey hey hey hey hey now that's trying to give LG the benefit of the doubt okay I'm just saying we're and Authority we do that all the time I'm just saying I love LG before the V2 we love love you I had the G5 I had the G4 I had the yeah man come on it's very true but yeah I mean we love LG don't get us wrong we love LG so I don't know how far you guys got with the last question like what are you excited about at CES cuz Nicole told me you guys were just havinge I was I was riding the little scooters the electric scooters that's right the Herby and the Ojo I am so in love with those things because I I'm a biker you know I ride motorcycles okay so like I I want something that I can carry with me on the side of the motorcycle so when I get off my motorcycle secondary motorcycle I want to get the secondary vehicle like an electric one that I can just take cuz you know these hotels in biggest they're big yeah and I that runs out you got electric roller blades keep it going yeah keep it going is there anything you guys are really looking forward to sces not really I mean just kind of you know seeing what is obviously the microphone's your friend I'm a writer okay that's all I have to say I'm not a camer like today she had to me on camera I made her I was like all right Fiona you need to give me you need to give me like five minutes like what did you think about LG and she was like oh robots robots we dop robots so is that the is that the answer though more robots no no I mean like I said I'm just kind of here to just see what's around and like I said I've just been to the press conferences I haven't been on the show floor yet so exactly so once I get to the show for then we'll see I I mean you know like just just because of what I do I'm more mobile so it's just you know press conferences briefings yeah that's true smartphones laptops convertibles blah blah blah so convertibles once we get I of a car for some reason once I get Once once I get to the show floor once I get to the show floor then I'll see what the good stuff is Hope fair enough all right we go in yourself the gamer over here yeah um just for you to be honest I don't know like I haven't been paying that much attention I've been like behind the scenes doing going to be a Razer playing Esports aren't you that's pretty much what I was going to be that's it that's it that's the thing now all of the gaming companies they just set up a land party and everyone just plays all day yeah you just go game there whole time can I do that and I bring my laptop and it's like can I try that thee can I try it like no you got to use the computer so we have you yeah well like well you guys are actually on your way out I don't want to keep you guys for too long so no no we should drink some more some more um I think they closed the bar on us so I don't think that's an option go to another bar you made a bad mistake outside of the someone someone get him more liquor like clearly he's not done yet I'm not I'm definitely not done we will well we will definitely be seeing you guys at the show thank you so much for coming on to the show problem hey so you guys yeah no problem that's mine I was wondering how long you someone get a mic go and hold that good no no we're not done yet see you hello and now I want Nicole back you got to pull some more people in here though yeah Nicole Nicole please this is by far the CR this is by far the CR make sure back on okay this is by far the craziest podcast I've ever done yeah everyone's been here yeah I want to I want to make sure we actually do the question right and I want to make sure that everyone says what they're actually wanting to see at CES so I'm going to start with Nicole who had to step out for a second so we'll do that so we can keep that on track I'm to be honest I really want to see some cool exoskeletons yeah like hyai H's got a really cool one and like I want to put it on and then like do some squats li like foret seeing robots you want to be the robot on that that sounds aome wants to be iron woman I we have the technology yeah and I want and I want it here at CES I want it I want it now so hyand has an EXO Sal I can Hyundai do I do I do that every single time to Nicole I'm sorry what the hell is hyy Sunday Hy like Sunday yeah every day is like so they have an EXO skeleton that I can do squats in yeah yeah yeah here here no no well the the only thing they have here is right behind us but while like lifting a keg over your head or something a car over my head oh yeah an electric scooter 3D printer so you can create your own shell yeah I'm in this is this is awesome give give them your measurements forget everything else I'm doing I'm with let's do this number one thing I'm looking for tomorrow all right well how about hayato um okay so I've gotting a couple of PR emails that I just like a lot of them you know I'm just I'm I'm just swiping them away but I got one email for a basically it's a it's like a cure egg but for beer and I really really want that that sounds gross no it's sounds like a bag of hops and you just it makes the beer it sounds gross get warm I hope not really really really hope not no but other than that I mean the tech is cool honestly I I can see the tech Anywhere what I'm really hoping to see I think it'd be ridiculous if Snapchat doesn't have a snapbot so I can get myself some talking this I've been waiting ever since they announced them if they don't have spectacles here what the are they doing what what color are you going to get if they show up coral Coral you have to have thought about this coral Coral is My Last Choice it's okay I really want that blue but I'm probably just can't go with the black cuz I tried on F blue earlier and it's just not yeah Adam Molino our sound guys homie is over there he has the black ver yeah the black edition the second pair that I bought so the second pair for aa oh yeah uhhuh uh-huh Android authority uh-huh so I have a better that's mine do do you mind do you mind if I see yours no no you're going to steal them CU I you to yesterday I would never steal your I think I've read more articles of people standing in line to buy them than actually their experiences with them I have three entire Vlogs about it and on our podcast several podcasts de with skiing the show because no one one podcast I skip late to the show I'm sorry oh well fine but I I had to I had to call into the podcast because I was in line priority man and I'm just right there like I hate this why do I even want this it's Snapchat but now but now my favorite part I have them I like two hours before the podcast starts he he messages us I'm probably not going to make it and I'm probably not going to get the glasses either but I'm going anyways the attitude man you didn't get some kind of uh like benefit for being in the press and like no they they everyone's equal everyone's equal to Snapchat right now no one gets some PR yeah um okay Stephen did you did you answer this question already no I have not cuz I don't have a good answer for it yet you just haven't been paying attention to your email scooters I've been intentionally not paying attention to Emil Electro scooters uh it's not of the weird like the pr emails unsolicited ones there's a cool looking like over the air I'm a cheep skate an over the a Android DVR get all your channels for free watch them on your phone when you want to a sling box kind of okay initially initially I didn't say it was new we're horrible pirating movies like pseudo legitimately Pudo no initially I thought you said uh smartphone DDR and like we really start dancing I was like yeah that's dope broken this just a bunch of broken phones then like everyone's just stepping on their phone that's what happened yeah that's what happened he went stepan all right so we'll go ahead and ask the team and then we'll call it a day on this first edition this crazy ass first edition of the podcast yeah it was just us being drun it was B crazy it's all good but you know what we got we did get a lot of talk done thankfully so you guys what is what is Android authority slch charge. SL times VR sound guys yeah what are we all excited about at CES what do you guys think smart fridges it's all about the smart fridges Alex see now I'm going way off topic here I'm sorry sory why are manufacturers like LG and stuff trying to make these smart fridges incorporating Amazon Services why isn't Amazon making Amazon's opening up their grocery store you walk in you grab your stuff you walk out that's what I want my fridge to do I don't want to scan stuff I don't want they don't want you keeping the food they want you buying more food constantly they want it to go bad so you buy more stuff but still Amazon fridge think about it yeah well yeah but to that point I I would say I'm excited to see more Google assistant/ Alx that make it into more devices I think that'd be great I use Google assistant on the pixel all the damn time and I want to see assistant in more places the new Nvidia Shield has Google assistant in which I didn't see at the the mate 9 or the Huawei event now the mate 9 is getting Alexa buil inting for the US getting it and everywhere we turn everywhere we turn Amazon's in it Alexa's right here at TP link they're right here at wio they're at everywhere well then finally API that's why they want to jump on the band well then finally how about you Edgar aside from from they G motorcyc from my motorcy but you know Panasonic did the the gh5 is official official now I know you're not a mirrorless person saw that he's not a mirorless person he's a full frame I need I need something to replace my GH3 so why you three you have options why you wanted me to sell you my four oh I get it all right does your GH4 have built-in 10 bit 422 8 bit Ah okay he wants a gh5 got standard not good enough wow yeah scooters Herby's scooters Herby uh the phones have to be honest man phones don't get me excited anymore not here CS they don't it's the same thing wa you got you got a better processor you got a more RAM you got all the yeah whatever when you put them side to side when you put them side to side the speed doesn't matter it's the same you won't notice it you still get what done what you want done yeah you get it done it's fine the bch news for me at a CES is always qualcom they're releasing their new process which means 3 months from now we can talk phones yeah so David jumped right back in so you you can you can round out the podcast our newest member of the podcast by the way our one of our regulars so what you're excited about first CES it's your first CES too and he has the fiveyear ribbon I have the fiveyear ribbon I I've been here more than five 5 to n years that's right there see I told you there was didn't get atice this is inj it's because I'm Mexican it went we went there guys we went there Shame Shame luckily I a straight white male so no don't do oh that's the problem see that's the problem yeah no we'll have none of that on my podast I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding on theway elme I'm just saying why didn't I get it well go on ahead you're you're most excited for like coming up yeah I missed this whole thing um I was really hoping there would be a Vive to it looks like that's not a thing uh but I am excited for the accessories cuz they they announced all these interesting accessories where you can like put them on things so that people like you don't trip over them so you can attach them to your cat if you want to oh Alo accessories for the vibe for the vibe yeah for the current Vibe they have already the the wireless adapter that goes on the vibe that adds a battery pack to it which actually apparently has very low latency and I think we need to try out I don't know why I don't have one yet but we need to get one um and then they have yeah they have something so you can like see this beam of light so you don't like hit it uh whether it be your coffee near death experience add-on basically yeah so you don't DP over stuff cuz not everyone has like just an empty room in their house where they can just use the Vive yeah um so I want to go try that tomorrow I think it would be cool to like just see it every time I use Vive it's kind of like boom no it doesn't have to be for cats only I have the staircase I have the staircase in my house where it's part of a room and you could just put it at the edge of the staircase that's pretty cool yeah that'd be good other than that I want to see some other like VR accessories VR stuff I know that valva is working on some other controller prototypes so I think they're going to show some of those off okay uh a lot of VR stuff is what I'm mostly excited about sounds good I think Samsung had the best VR accessories for the the gear it's like a a seat with a you know full-on gimbal around it rotating you 360° like you're on a roller coaster should be every home or a bungee cord yeah the bungee the seat that went like that that's what you need all right well I want to thank you guys for coming on to this first edition of the podcast I have so much editing to do on this one but uh yeah thank you for don't worry you'll make it in the show don't worry Stephen you're good and you too haato uh well especially to you guys who who were here and you stuck around thank you so much thank you to Nicole who had to step out to talk to some people as well uh and also to Fiona for coming on uh with her friend uh thank you so much for listening and watching in this case to the special editions of the Android authority podcast here at CES 2017 stay tuned for even more uh throughout the entire show we're going to do a podcast a day so if you guys come by the if you come by you said that last year did I yes I got one note and if uh if you come by the booth because we do have a booth at at uh CES you guys can probably be on more stuff we'll be able to do some interviews and we'll be able to talk to you guys even more outside of this which was pepcom digital experience keep it tuned to here to Android authority and to all of our sites like Phone Arena like pocket now in this guy's case at least for now uh and also to Mobile Geeks and Nicole's case and to of course androidauthority.com and all of our websites or even more because we are your source for all things Android you didn't do that last year either you need the script in advance man\n"