CES 2020: Day 1
YouTubers upset they have to follow COPPA and stop taking advantage of kids for money
Get a Windows style application switcher on macOS with alt-tab-macos
Cheap DJI Mavic Air drone, Xiaomi scooter, 4K Apple TV, Boost 12m SIM, LG 38" ultrawide monitor, 15% off Spotify & iTunes cards
The announcements are coming in strong and hard now:
Canon and Nikon have new full frame DSLRs with the EOS-1D X Mark III and D780 respectively.
Wi-Fi 6E is now a thing. It’s an addition to Wi-Fi 6 (aka 802.11ax) that uses fat chunks of the 6GHz band for more bandwidth.
Lenovo is gonna sell a laptop with a folding OLED screen. Imagine a Microsoft Surface without the keyboard cover that folds in half. That’s the Thinkpad X1 Fold and it’s coming in mid-2020.
Samsung’s gonna sell their weird self-rotating TV designed for portrait content outside of Korea. Perfect for TikTok binge watching?
Ballie is a “small ball-shaped robot intended to help you around the house” that Samsung took from fever dream to production (but we don’t know when or how much).
Sony has made an electric concept car called the Vision-S that it stuffed full of Sony technologies (processors, sensors, speakers, displays, etc.) as a demonstration of what Sony is capable of.
Uber has announced that Hyundai will build its electric air taxis, with demo flights starting some time this year and commercial flights in 2023.
AMD released info and dates for the upcoming Ryzen 4000-series mobile CPUs. Laptops using these chips are coming in Q1-2020 and going by the specs, should be cheaper and faster than Intel’s mobile CPUs at the same TDP.
Intel’s got some new CPUs too, but they’re just reheated 14nm bits and not necessarily anything to get excited about. They did tease a discrete GPU called DG1 though.
Belkin will sell a 3-in-1 wireless charger for your Apple Watch, iPhone and Airpods in April.
Lenovo’s 21.5” “Smart Frame” you can mount on your wall to show pretty pictures is cool.
The PlayStation 5 will go on sale this holiday season. PS5 for Christmas!
Toyota said they’re gonna build a city near Mt. Fuji that’ll be the town of the future and a living laboratory for their technology like hydrogen fuel cells, robots and “personal mobility” (cars, they mean cars)
Big news in YouTube world - creators will now need to self-declare if their videos are for kids so that they can be shown to kids and the videos marked for children won't have comments or targeted ads. Creators are freaking out as if they mark their video as for kids it'll mean they get fewer views (as it'll be for kids only) and less money (because the ads are generic). This has come about due to the US Federal Trade Commission declaring that YouTube has to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA) and threatened to do "sweeps" of YouTube to ensure COPPA is followed.
One of the few things I like in Windows more than macOS is the "alt-tab" window switcher. In macOS all you get is a bunch of icons and you can only switch between the apps themselves, not the windows between the apps (that's a 2nd keystroke once you've selected the app), but in Windows you can see like thumbnails of every window you've got running. With alt-tab-macos, you can now enjoy that same Windows alt-tab view on macOS. I've been using it for a few days and it works damn well. It's customisable (how much of the screen to use, how many thumbnails per row, icon sizes, etc.), reliable (hasn't shit the bed yet) and costs nothing. What's not to love?
15% off iTunes and Spotify gift cards at Woolworths starting tomorrow
DJI Mavic Air Fly More Combo - $1249 delivered from D1 Store
Xiaomi Mi M365 Pro electric scooter - $739.99 using code PLUTO100 for eBay Plus members
Apple TV 4K 32GB - $218 at Harvey Norman, but go to Officeworks and they’ll price match it to $207.10
Boost 12m pre-paid starter kit with 80GB of data - $135 from Boost (could prob get this price matched at Officeworks too if they have stock)
LG 38WK95C-W ultrawide 3840x1600 38” monitor - $1299 at PC Case Gear
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