Live thoughts from the Engadget meeting room in Las Vegas: There was a lot of spitting and licking at CES 2025, huh.
It’s time for the largest tech conference every year. Today may not be the official first day of CES 2025, but it is a media day, meaning many companies are holding their press conferences to show off their latest products. CES usually sets the stage for each year, and judging by everything that’s already been announced so far, AI will continue to find its way into every possible corner of our lives.
Engadget’s team has already landed in Las Vegas and begun the hard work of scouring the floral-carpeted show floors to find the most interesting products being shown off here. We’ll be giving out awards for our best things at CES 2025, but before we make those decisions, there’s a lot more to see and touch.
If you want to live vicariously through us, there is no better place to keep up than our liveblog, which will be updated regularly throughout today. You can also tune in for our live coverage of all of the biggest press conferences happening today, including LG, Samsung, Sony and NVIDIA. Keep your browser tab open here, and you might feel like you’re right in Vegas, surrounded by weird robots!
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Samsung more or less pioneered the category of art TVs with its Frame series, and at this CES it’s rolling out a new model in the Frame Pro. The main upgrade is the fact that these use the company’s top-of-the-line Neo QLED panels. But here’s Nathan Ingraham with more details:
“Besides the panel, the Frame Pro also uses Samsung’s Wireless One Connect box, which lets you transmit content from consoles or set-top boxes to the TV without needing to plug things in directly. Instead, you plug into the Wireless One Connect and it’ll beam things to the TV, which means you can make a much cleaner, cable-free setup that feels particularly useful with a set like the Frame.”
We’ve also already seen some pretty scary stuff here, like this baby? CPR? dummy? Weirdly with a stethoscope on and some foreign object in its mouth?
He’s back: Musician and entrepreneur will.i.am seems to always have a tech collaboration on deck, and CES 2025 is no exception. He’s teamed with LG to tweak up the company’s latest speakers, and Engadget’s Billy Steele got an early listen:
I was pleasantly surprised by how much bass the xboom Grab mustered during my demo, with punchy highs and solid mids holding the details. That low-end tone seemed slightly muffled to me, but I only got a quick listen, so a full review would confirm if that’s actually the case. The other surprising thing is how loud the xboom Grab can be. At only 50 percent volume, the compact unit produced an almost uncomfortable level of sound for the room.
Read more: LG xboom speakers hands-on: Built with the help of will.i.am and a dash of AI
