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| CES 2024: ENTERTAINMENT Dive into the heart of CES 2024 where home entertainment takes center stage, showcasing a
revolution in leisure and technology. This year's showcase is all about transforming your living
space into an epicenter of innovation. Picture virtual realities so immersive they blur the lines of
fiction and reality, and smart theaters that adapt to your moods and tastes.
From gadgets that turn ordinary nights into cinematic experiences to breakthroughs that redefine relaxation, CES 2024 is where the future of home entertainment comes alive in the most spectacular fashion. It’s not just about watching or listening; it’s about experiencing entertainment like never before.  credit: © LG TRANSPARENT TVS After years of prototypes, the transparent TV is becoming a reality, hitting shelves later this year. LG announced that in the second half of the year, it will begin selling its 77-inch 4K transparent OLED TV, which won a CES 2024 Best of Innovation Award. The see-through TV offers a 3D-like viewing experience. The television also features LG’s Zero Connect technology, allowing it to be plug-free and placed anywhere in a room, and it receives video and audio wirelessly. This TV features a transparent OLED panel but also has an option for a “contrast screen," or opaque film, that can roll up for a more traditional TV picture experience. It also can display a “T-Bar” (think of it as a news ticker) along the bottom of the screen to project information like news, weather and time. Samsung also showed off a transparent TV with its Micro OLED display technology, but has not disclosed when their version will be available. But the trend was evident at CES 2024: TV manufacturers seem to be placing greater emphasis on how to make the screen vanish when it’s not in use.  credit: XGIMI projectorPOP-UP-AT-HOME THEATERS At-home media rooms are being equipped with compact projectors for a movie theater experience. XGIMI showed off Aladdin, a 4K smart projector hidden in a ceiling light that also contains a 360-degree smart speaker. The projector is unassuming as a standard light, and it doesn’t hang down like a standard, ceiling-mounted projector. But it’s still plenty powerful: The smart light can project images up to 100 inches on the wall. LG’s CineBeam Qube projector, which mimics a miniature old-school projector or film camera, can be conspicuously placed on a shelf. Flip it on, and it’s capable of projecting a 4K image up to 120 inches. The lightweight device is only 3.25 pounds, making it one of the smallest projectors in the marketplace.  credit: © Samsung ROBOTIC HOME ALLIES CES 2024 offered plenty of visions of the future for home monitoring robots, including Samsung’s Ballie, a ball-shaped robotic projector. It can shadow you around the home and project information onto walls and surfaces, including the weather, calendar and YouTube videos. Ballie will automatically find a surface to project images, videos and apps onto. Control Ballie via voice commands, and use its projections as a touchscreen. “Use [Ballie] to project images and stream content on walls, and it can automatically adjust the picture based on the wall distance and lighting conditions,” Samsung says in a press release. “It [can] automatically detect people’s posture and facial angle and adjust the optimal projection angle for you.” LG showed off its Smart Home AI Agent, a two-legged robot that can connect to your household devices via its sensors and cameras. It can perform a number of tasks, including using its voice and image recognition to greet guests, take care of pets and serve as a home’s security guard. It will send alerts if it senses something isn’t right, including a window left open. And if the robot senses you’re in a bad mood, it’ll play music to help you feel better.  credit: Sennheiser Momentum Sport | Sennheiser VERY SMART EARBUDS This year, audio legends Sennheiser launched a complete refresh of its classic Momentum range, including new variations of the True Wireless 4 and Accentum Plus over-ears. However, the standout was the new Momentum Sport. With a chunkier design that looks like it was pulled right from the adventurer’s knapsack, these new earbuds introduce built- in sensors to track both your body temperature and heart rate. Best of all Sennheiser claims the Momentum Sport will “seamlessly” integrate with your favorite health apps, allowing you to track workouts and metrics across different devices.  credit: © LG VERY BIG TVS On the TV side of things, LG got the party started a little early when it dropped new information regarding its 2024 lineup of QNED and QNED Mini LED TVs, including a whopping 98-inch monster. As you would expect, AI is playing an integral role this time around, with LG claiming that all of the new QNED models will be powered by the a8 AI Processor. As a result, the new models have ‘AI Picture Pro’; a new format that is based on deep machine learning. As the brand explains, “this versatile feature distinguishes faces, objects, and backgrounds within a scene, enriching the texture and fine details to present realistic images”. The latest QNED offerings will be available in. 43-, 50-, 55, 65-, 75- and 86-inch sizes, however, special mentions must go to the category-first 98-inch beast. The ultra-large new TV takes the very best of LG’s pixel-dense technology and splashes it across a rankly ludicrous canvas, making for one serious piece of home entertainment kit.
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