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Sean Hollister

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    I’m still not feeling the Afeela, but it does have working digital mirrors now!

    I sat in the Sony Honda car a year ago, six months ago, and now — improvements are slow. AI is new for 2025, but the chatbot got far too easily confused. I couldn’t see the lidar in action. I like the digital mirrors, though.

    It’ll be 2026 before journalists can test-drive it, Sony Honda Mobility director Shugo Yamaguchi confirms, though the company’s already taking preorders for what’s now a $90K car.

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    The Sphere was a giant Intel ad last night, and it felt weird.

    I know everything in Vegas is for sale, but wouldn’t the Sphere be more of an attraction if the structure displayed more incredible 3D art and fewer ads? (This is one of like three we saw repeatedly looped while riding a ferris wheel.)

    Also, for a seemingly struggling company, Intel must have spent quite a bit on CES this year — it’s plastered all over the Vegas monorail, too.

    Intel vPro badge atop a blue and purple electrical lines zig zagging
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    I lifted 128GB of memory and the most powerful integrated graphics with one hand.

    HP calls its ZBook Ultra 14 G1a “the world’s most powerful 14-inch mobile workstation,” because it comes with AMD’s most powerful mobile chip: the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395, aka “Strix Halo,” with up to 128GB of unified memory shared among the CPU, GPU, and AI engines.

    I watched it generate an AI image of Las Vegas on a locally loaded large language model.

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    Ever seen Nvidia and AMD’s AI server parts in real life?

    The AI boom means most of these highly sought-after parts wind up in server farms, so it’s rare to see one ourselves — but AMD and Nvidia showed off a few at CES 2025. Here’s AMD’s MI325X, and then what appears to be Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, with potentially lots of its new Blackwell AI chips inside.

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    My favorite thing at CES is the Razer gaming chair that heats and cools.

    It’s not the most technologically advanced thing ever, no butt-kicking haptics inside. Just a comfy mesh chair that can cool me when I inevitably run hot or warm me on chilly days, with near-silent jets of conditioned air. I really hope Razer actually sells this Project Arielle.

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    The only thing more terrifying than a spider router: a spider router with AI.

    They’ve been haunting CES since 2015, and there’s no end in sight.

    The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI claims to be the first with a built-in NPU for AI-powered ad, tracker, and malicious site blocking, AI-powered noise detection to improve Wi-Fi stability, AI-powered “triple-level game acceleration,” and allegedly, AI power savings, too. Dong Knows Tech says it’ll cost $800.

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    A better look at the zany ergo keyboard with Wolverine claw action.

    I showed you the AutoKeybo right after I tried it, but here’s a video that gives you a better idea of how it works!

    I think they need to build a proper cyberdeck out of this, something a bit more Ghost in the Shell. Maybe an Angry Miao collab?

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    Sean Hollister
    TIL Samsung Display makes screens that stretch — not just wider or taller, but in three dimensions.

    The company’s been working on them since 2017, and they’re now beginning to impress — as you’ll see, I witnessed a miniature Las Vegas Sphere bulge from the panel, as well as a tiny virtual shark attack. But I’ll admit the company’s own video is even more impressive.

    My video, however, also contains other awesome flexes!