Cool tech at CES 2020

As always, the second week of January is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) week. I'm not going to cover in much details what has been shown, people on the site can do much better job. Instead, I've created a list of the most interesting gadgets & thing shown at CES 2020.

Mobile, portable & wearable devices

• OnePlus Concept One Phone
• Dell Alienware Concept UFO
• Withings Scanwatch

Laptops

• Intel's Horseshoe Bend concept
• Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold
• Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus with E-ink screen
• Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel Pro

Computers

• Intel's 10th-Generation 'Comet Lake' CPUs
• AMD takes no prisoners
• Origin’s Big O combines PC & consoles
• MSI’s MEG Aegis Ti5
• Razer Tomahawk

TVs & Monitors

• Samsung's bezel-less 8K TV
• Samsung Sero rotating TV
• Sony Z8H 8K HDR Sony A8H 4K OLED TVs
• LG OLED ZX 88-inch 8K TV
• Asus' 360Hz Monitor
• Samsung Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor

Headphones & speakers

• JBL's AirPods alternative
• Jabra Elite Active 75t wireless earbuds
• Harman Kardon Citation Oasis
• Vizio’s soundbar with rotating speakers
• Amazon Fire TV soundbars

Smart home devices

• Samsung Ballie
• Arlo's wireless Floodlight Camera
• Charmin’s new toilet paper robot and fart smell sensor
• Wemo Wifi Smart Plug & Stage
• Y-Brush toothbrush
  

Cars & Vehicles

• Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR
• Sony Vision-S concept car
• Fiser's electric SUV with solar roof
• Mustang Mach-E SUV
• BMW i Interaction Ease concept
• Segway S-Pod

Dope links

• Sign in with Apple - Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3
• Swift 5.2 Development Snapshot
• Build your own Netlify-like deployment for React app using multi-container Kubernetes pod
• Canned Emails - a minimal site with prewritten emails
• Disk Sleeves
• Twenty Years Ago, Steve Jobs Showed Off the Aqua Interface for the First Time
• I created an ultra-detailed color image of the moon by combining around 100k photos
• How The Irishman’s Groundbreaking VFX Took Anti-Aging To the Next Level
  
  

MacBook Pro 16' imminent release?

According to DigiTimes new 16-inch MacBook Pro could be released by the end of October. At the moment, there is no information about any Apple's event, so people are speculating whether Apple is going to just release new laptop model together with Mac Pro.

It looks like the rumors about imminent release might be true. In the latest beta of the macOS 10.15.1, people found images of the 16-inch MacBook. New model looks to be slightly bigger than 15-inch predecessor, and has noticeably smaller screen bezel.

Interesting links

• Create the Perfect UserDefaults Wrapper Using Property Wrapper
• Mockingbird: A convenient mocking framework for Swift
• No Overview Available
• Take a screenshot and record a video in iOS Simulator
• Using Web Bluetooth to communicate with Bluetooth devices
• Dark mode in HTML email
• My favourite Git commit
• Why you should have a side project
• Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive
• Why The 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' Illusion Battle Took Nine Months To Make
• Bruno Simon's Portfolio

Image credits: MacGeneration

Second week of January is traditionally the CES week. As always, they were multiple hardware announcements and presentations. You can check what's new watching coverages from Marques Brownlee here and here, or Linus Tech Tips.

The CES is not the only thing that happened this week. Here is the list of cool things I stumbled upon.

MPC Blade Runner 2049 VFX breakdown
This is how young Rachael was brought to life in Blade Runner 2049. It is astonishing to see how technology advanced during just couple of months. Tarkin, in Rogue One, was remarkable technological achievement, but he was not perfect. Here I cannot tell the difference between Sean Young and hers computer counterpart.

Xcode hardware performance
Ash Furrow compiled the list with Xcode's performance on various macs. It already has the statistics for newest iMac Pro. What's disappointing, the new powerful hardware doesn't make fresh build times noticeably faster. The improvements are only for incremental builds.

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site.
David Gilbertson explains how hackers can create bogus NPM package and use it to steal information without us knowing. This is reminder that we should always verify our 3rd party dependencies!

SpaceX launched Falcon 9 with Zuma satellite
Once again Space X launched its Falcon 9 rocket and landed it at Landing Zone 1. This was 21st successful landing of the first-stage of the rocket. Unfortunately they are rumors that the entire mission wasn't that successful. The Zuma satellite failed to reach the orbit and was lost. The mission was a secret, so we will not know, at least not in the near future, what really happened.

Zuma mission start
John Kraus captured this photo of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with Zuma satellite. If you like this photo, you should check out his website.

Image credits: John Kraus.