CES 2019: The Best of ShowStoppers and the Show Floor

The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show is wrapping up, with Friday being the final day. For our last CES video, we visited ShowStoppers, the show floor, and a few vendor events to show MacRumors readers some of the coolest stuff that we saw this year.

Not all of what we have to share is entirely Apple related, but there are definitely some interesting, eye-catching technology products that give us an idea of where the tech sector is headed.


Some of the best TV technology at the show came from LG, with the company debuting a 65-inch TV that rolls up. The rolling mechanism lets the TV, which is super thin, tuck away when it's not in use, and then be brought back up when you want to use it.

LG's actually going to release the rollable TV, called the OLED TV R, sometime in the spring, but expect it to be sensationally expensive. LG's booth was also something special, outfitted with a seemingly endless array of curved OLED displays.

Samsung was on hand showing off its upcoming Bixby speaker, a smart speaker that's designed to compete with the HomePod. The Bixby speaker features a teardrop shape along with three metal legs, with Samsung promising smart home features and immersive sound. The Bixby speaker is set to be released soon.

Simplehuman, a company that makes automated trash cans, debuted the Sensor Mirror Hi-Fi, which works as a mirror, a lamp, and a speaker, while Kohler was demoing a smart bathtub that won't overfill and super fancy $7000 toilet with a heated seat, LEDs, speakers, Alexa integration, and automatic flushing.

LaMetric showed off a very neat looking Nanoleaf Smart Panel competitor called "Sky" that features a mosaic-style design. In addition to displaying various colored designs, the panels can be customized with weather information, social network data, the time, and tons more.

Aura, a company that made a fitness tracker popular on Kickstarter, introduced an Apple Watch "Smart Strap" that's supposed to measure weight, water, fat, and muscle via electrodes built into the band. We didn't get to try it out for ourselves, but we're interested to see if this is actually going to be a viable product.

VR was big at CES and we saw a virtual batting cage, options for boxing, and tons of VR headsets, and there were no shortage of prototype cars, as usual, most with self-driving capabilities.

The neatest automotive-related product we saw was the Bell Nexus Air Taxi, a hybrid electric-propulsion aircraft that's going to be launched by Uber sometime in the mid-2020s. Uber hopes that this air taxi, which can carry four passengers a couple hundred miles on a single charge, will be the future of transportation.

To see more of what's being shown off at CES, make sure to check out our CES Unveiled video and our Pepcom video, along with our full CES 2019 hub.

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Top Rated Comments

AngerDanger Avatar
85 months ago
Some of the best TV technology at the show came from LG, with the company debuting a 65-inch TV that rolls up.
This and the "hovering" CarPlay display are both instances of language ambiguity getting me much more excited for something than is reasonable.

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warp9 Avatar
85 months ago
That rolling TV reminds me of the first cd players in the early nineties. They had $1,000 worth of machined aluminum, wood trim, and smoked glass cabinets surrounding $50 worth of electronics.

Get rid of all the pomp and you might sell some of these, LG.
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TracesOfArsenic Avatar
85 months ago
I barely trust someone driving me around in two dimensions, let alone 3 dimensions. Add 4 massive mince meat machines on the side of it and you've got a recipe for disaster.
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RecentlyConverted Avatar
85 months ago
Wow.. That TV sliding motion doubling as a sound bar, and roll able OLED display..

I would bet people would just like to have that in their home.
Whilst it looks lovely, I wonder what happens if any grit gets in the roller mechanism? Screen scratches?
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