Is there anything more CES than a fire-breathing winged lizard guarding glowing potions? Allison and I both had to gawk. “I also asked the guy at the booth what the crystals do and he was like ‘you know. decor,’” says Allison.
Today I toyed with the Lego Smart Brick, touted as the “most significant evolution” to the Lego system in 50 years, and I came away impressed. I have a whole hands-on preview story coming Wednesday, but here’s a whirlwind two-minute video tour of what it can actually do. (Also on YouTube.)
I love how flashlights have evolved in the past decade with powerful LEDs, lithium-ion batteries and USB-C charging, and while this Olight ArkPro is way pricier than my Wuben X4, it feels way more elegant, compact, and offers both a green laser beam and UV light as well as up to 1700 lumens of white.
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I had a blast with the OhSnap MCON viral sliding gamepad, save for one teensy thing — it’s incredibly impractical to keep your phone attached to it because it’s thick and blocks the cameras. The upcoming ~$100 MCON Slim and ~$60 MCON Lite might fix that, but they don’t have the spring loaded action. The Lite uses 3DS-style Circle Pads, the Slim has touchpads. Tentatively coming September.
We wrote RGB is the next big thing in monitors, and today we got a look. John and I agree LG Display’s 27-inch 4K RGB-stripe OLED panel looked wonderfully crisp, a way better demo than Samsung Display’s 34-inch RGB-stripe ultrawide. Also, LG has a 39-inch 5K RGBW OLED ultrawide with 1,500-nit peak brightness, if you don’t mind the extra white subpixel...
How can both Samsung Display and LG Display claim to have the world’s brightest TV when they offer the same 4,500-nit brightness peaks? Not convincingly! But the extra 500 nits is still a milestone over last-gen tech, and boy are these new OLED screens gorgeous in person. You can’t say OLED is lacking brightness anymore.
