Random CES 2020 Booths That Blew Us Away (8 items)

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  (#3) LG Electronics

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  LG was obviously all over CES 2020, but the LG ThinQ booth is where they showed their most sophisticated AI-led technology. Among the most exciting things on display there was the tech company's connected car, a rideshare vehicle that connects to your other personal devices and uses it to enhance your ride experience. After unlocking the car using face recognition, you can speak to the AI voice assistant as if it had been with you all day — you could ask it to continue playing the show you were just watching on your connected TV before leaving the house, for instance. The car also featured an onboard dry cleaner for your clothes, a nice (if maybe a little unnecessary) touch.
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  (#8) Arcade1Up

  For a company that makes vintage arcade cabinets, Arcade1Up had a surprisingly big presence at a conference that's all about new technology. How big? Just take a look at this gigantic NBA Jam console and see for yourself! Nothing really raises the stakes of playing your friend in a basketball video game from the 90s than doing it six feet over the floor on a console at least twice as big as the dasboard of your car.
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  (#4) Panasonic Corporation

  Panasonic had a tremendous presence at CES 2020, demonstrating everything from connected vehicles to state-of-the-art turntables. But the truly immersive part of their exhibit was the smart home technology they were showing off. The company illustrated how connected sensors in your home can observe your behavior and adjust appliances, lights, and utility usage accordingly. Panasonic even showed how sensors can be used to analyze the signs of physical stress using an interactive yoga studio. Participants were invited to try some light yoga poses and watch how the stretching affected their physical stress signals. 
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  (#5) Bosch

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  Engineering giant Bosch also had some AI-guided mobility tech on display, including eBikes and a shared mobility vehicle similar to LG's. But Bosch's innovations centered mostly around safety — their "virtual visor" analyzes the position of a driver's eyes and uses that information to shade only the area of their view that would otherwise be blinded by glare from the sun, eliminating one of the biggest threats to driver safety. They've also developed airbags that react to the position that various passengers take in the car, maximizing their effectiveness.
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  (#7) Google

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  Google showed off their smart home technology with a charming tiny home on the Las Vegas Convention Center floor. Exhibitors in white overalls demonstrated how everything in the home from the dishwasher, to the dryer, to the TV, to the lighting, to the air conditioning, to the scent diffusor (if you have one of those) can be connected to one another through Google Assistant. It was a truly lovely experience, but unfortunately, we were told that we couldn't stay in the home indefinitely because it turns out we were not the only ones at the convention who wanted to look at it.
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  (#2) United States Postal Service

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  Snail mail may be one of the oldest communication technologies still in popular use today, but that didn't stop the USPS from bringing their "A" Game to Las Vegas this year. The federal service was touting their new direct mail system to marketers who might otherwise consider dropping the traditional channel with a skeeball arcade that was shaped like a giant mailbox. We're not sure how skeeball is related to sending people advertisements through the mail, but boy, did we have fun trying to figure it out!

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