CES Liveblog: Smart Home, Workout Tech, and So Many TVs

The Chinese residence leisure model Konka is introducing a brand new line of sensible residence units to its North American choices. With a primary lineup of safety cameras, video doorbells, sensible plugs, and lights (with some variation in every group), all managed by a singular app, the corporate is hoping to make sensible residence integration easy.

All will work with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa and you probably have a Konka TV, which had been launched within the US final 12 months, you should utilize that as a hub to your sensible residence units.

If the worth is true once they’re launched later this 12 months, the easy lineup may very well be a strong possibility for sensible residence rookies. Some corporations supply a dizzying array of merchandise with miniscule variations, however Konka plans to begin with simply what’s obligatory, For instance, its sensible lighting choices embody one A19 sensible bulb for many lighting fixtures, a excessive hat bulb for recessed lighting, and a lightweight strip, just lately made standard once more by cool TikTok teenagers. Its lineup additionally consists of some sensible TVs, sensible doorbells, safety cams, and sensible plugs.

—Medea Giordano

This Keyboard App Claims to Reduce Tipos Typos by 80 %

In July 2020, the Swiss keyboard startup Typewise raised about $1 million for a 100 % non-public “next word prediction engine” that might increase productiveness by eliminating typos and offering personalised, tailor-made autocorrecting options. That tech continues to be being developed. But proper now, they’ve an app with a particular honeycomb keyboard that they declare is two-thumb-friendly and reduces typos by as much as 80 %.

This can be an fascinating house to look at, as small corporations elevate their slingshots towards giants like Apple and Google. But this small, useful app already has greater than 500,000 downloads, which makes it far more actual and helpful than a lot of the bizarre, wacky vaporware that I’m used to seeing at CES. If it could cease continuously changing all of the you-know-whats with “ducking” in my texts, that alone would enhance my productiveness by at the very least 50 %. 

You can download Typewise here.

—Adrienne So

Samsung’s Mini LED Takeover Begins