|
The Drill Down 558: CES 2019
![CES 2019](https://i0.wp.com/thedrilldown.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ces-arch-lg.jpg?resize=530%2C277)
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Dwayne reports from CES, Apple‘s iPhone problem, is your weather app spying on you?, vehicular robot-slaughter?… and much, much more.
...continue reading »
Tags: AirPlay, Amazon, Android, Android TV, Apple, CES. Consumer Electronic Show, Google, Google Assistant, Hacking, HTC, HTC Vive Pro, iPhone, music streaming, NVIDIA, robots, Sony, Tesla, Virtual Reality, Vive Cosmos, VR
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CES 2019: Mission: Impossible Burger 2.0: Vegan Nation
|
By DwayneD
| @
|
Thursday, January 10th, 2019 at 7:00 pm
|
![A tray of New New Impossible Sliders Impossible Sliders](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2019/01/ORG_DSC02597-530x298.jpg?resize=530%2C298&ssl=1) [Impossible sliders laid out on a tray with gluten-free buns, lettuce, tomato, and Impossible Food’s “Americana” sauce made from vegan mayonnaise, Sriracha, ketchup, and caramelized onions.]
CES 2019: Las Vegas, Nevada “” We spoke to Impossible Foods COO David Lee. We wanted to know why 2019 was the year for Impossible Foods, which has been selling products for years, to come to the world’s largest technology show.
“CES is always the place to break important, critical, disruptive technology and Impossible Foods was founded with a bold mission to help save the planet one delicious burger at a time “” to start. Today we’re serving Impossible Burger 2.0. This is an example of technology that just gets better and better. It has everything you want in a burger “” the taste, the texture, the crave-ability. It has all the protein you want, all the iron you want, but it doesn’t have the stuff you don’t want. It doesn’t have cholesterol. It doesn’t have the same amount of fat. It doesn’t have the same amount of calories. What it does is that it allows meat eaters everywhere to prefer our burger “” made from plants “” versus a burger from a cow.”
...continue reading »
|
|
|
|
|
CES 2019 Tech Preview: Amazon In The Car With Echo Auto
|
By DwayneD
| @
|
Thursday, January 10th, 2019 at 12:00 pm
|
![An Echo Auto device on the dashboard of a car Echo Auto, Lifestyle 1](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2019/01/Echo-Auto-Lifestyle-1-530x398.jpg?resize=530%2C398&ssl=1)
Several months ago, Amazon dropped surprise news about the next generation of their Echo devices.
While the updates to Echo, Echo Plus, and others were expected, the announcement of an Echo device dedicated to the automobile was a surprising addition to the mix. Echo Auto was designed to live in the car, working through the Amazon Alexa app to give the user hands-free functionality for content and entertainment in their cars.
Much more info and some videos and images can be found below.
...continue reading »
|
|
|
|
|
CES 2019: Apple & Samsung, iTunes & AirPlay: It’s Complicated
|
By DwayneD
| @
|
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 at 7:00 pm
|
![Samsung-TV_Airplay Samsung working with Apple on AirPlay](https://i0.wp.com/www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2019/01/Samsung-TV_Airplay-530x197.jpg?resize=530%2C197&ssl=1) [As Apple seeks to keep up in the streaming space, AirPlay support will allow more iTunes users to see their content in more places.]
Yesterday, Samsung surprised the technology world with two big announcements during their CES 2019 keynote: (A) Starting in Spring of 2019, Samsung smart TV sets would support Apple’s AirPlay 2 protocol, which allows users of the TV sets who have iPhone, iPad, or Mac devices to stream what they’re seeing on their Apple device over to Samsung smart TV set via Wi-Fi. (B) iTunes is coming to Samsung smart TV sets. Owners of Samsung smart TVs will be able to stream Movies and TV shows they purchased via their Apple ID via an iTunes app on a Samsung device.
...continue reading »
|
|
|
|
|
You may have noticed that we're now AD FREE! Please support Geeks of Doom by using the Amazon Affiliate link above. All of our proceeds from the program go toward maintaining this site.
|
![space](https://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/spacer.gif) |
|