Samsung Previews CES Message, Updates Family Hub With Free TV Content

Samsung previewed its CES message, “Together for Tomorrow,” in a Tuesday YouTube teaser showing friendly aliens behind a frosted glass window busy at work preparing a product showcase. A brief glimpse at themes focused on sustainability, going green, tech, e-cycling, home, human and love. Samsung Electronics CEO Jong-Hee Han is slated to give the CES keynote Jan. 4 at the Venetian's Palazzo Ballroom.

In a pre-CES reveal of its appliance line, Samsung said Tuesday its 2022 Family Hub connected display for refrigerators will support Samsung TV Plus, giving users free TV content and continuous viewing experiences with the company’s smart TVs and Galaxy screen-based devices. The ’22 Hub will support Alexa in select regions, allowing consumers to access Amazon Music and Amazon smart water filter reordering services on their refrigerators. The View Inside feature was upgraded with internal camera technology that reads information on food labels, allowing families to view fridge contents and manage expiration dates, the company said.

Vuzix, which has traversed the consumer and enterprise markets over the past few years to secure applications for its smart glasses, said in a pre-CES announcement Monday it partnered with Verizon for the carrier’s 5G and edge computing technologies to deliver an AR experience for sports and gaming. It builds on a demonstration earlier this year that used Verizon’s platform to run applications at the edge of the network using Vuzix smart glasses “to deliver improved response time, longer battery life and increased computing capacity,” they said. Brian Mecum, Verizon vice president-device technology, said the Vuzix glasses will deliver immersive technology for “sports training and fan experience.”

IQH3D said Tuesday it will premiere its glasses-free 3D products in booth #19274 at CES, demoing 3D technology on the Skyy 10.8-inch streaming 3D tablet. All of the company's devices can be used for viewing 3D content and nonfungible-token stereoscopic digital art, the company said. The company will also show a glasses-free 3D smartphone with AI-enabled 3D camera, 28 inch-100-inch glasses-free 3D multi-viewer screens and a 65-inch monitor, it said.

At the Z-Wave booth, Venetian Expo, #51715, Silicon Labs plans to demonstrate its Z-Wave-to-Matter bridge and showcase recently released 800-series chipsets that tout a range of more than 1.5 miles, a 50% increase in battery life and Platform Security Architecture Level 3 security.

China-based Okai plans to showcase e-scooters, e-bikes and smart accessories at CES, It will show its first smart backpack, with an integrated fingerprint sensor, ultraviolet disinfecting light and built-in battery. Okai’s first smart helmet has Bluetooth and an integrated speaker, said the company.