The Engadget team is on the ground in Las Vegas to cover CES 2024, ready to chase down all the technology news fit for print. Despite the 40 or so articles on our site suggesting otherwise, CES 2024 has still not quite begun. With the show floor set to open tomorrow, January 8 is reserved for press conferences — lots of them.
That’s a lot of news for one day, and if you’re not willing to make the commitment to read the dozens of stories we’ll be publishing across 12 hours or so today, we’ll be running our daily liveblog. Expect a taste of the biggest news of the day, with some color commentary, lots of images and videos and links to our more in-depth coverage. Enjoy!
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Even though I mostly think of Victrola for cheap, entry-level turntables, I really like what they’ve been doing with the Stream series. I reviewed the first one, the Stream Carbon, in late 2022. As a Sonos nerd who also loves vinyl, it was pretty great if expensive. But it feels like a premium device and sounds excellent as well.
So this new one, the Stream Sapphire, will also probably be nice. And I had never heard of Roon before, but now I’m curious. That said, I don’t quite get the wild $1,499 price point. Hopefully I can check it out later this week and find out what’s going on there.
Mojawa put an AI running coach in its bone-conducting headphones
Mojawa
Mojawa, maker of bone-conduction headphones, has turned up to CES 2024 in Las Vegas with its new HaptiFit Terra. Unlike many other bone-conduction bands, it comes with a built-in AI sports trainer that, the company promises, will help you meet your goals. The AI can cook up custom exercise plans and tracks your heart rate, step count, pace, calories burned and distance. If you’re a swimmer, it’ll also monitor your swimming lap and distance, offering haptic feedback to keep you aware of how you’re doing.
Victrola’s latest streaming turntable, the Stream Sapphire, debuts at CES
Victrola Stream Sapphire turntable (Victrola)
Victrola has made a somewhat surprising move into high-end, streaming-capable turntables over the last few years, and it’s showing off the latest in the lineup at CES 2024. The Victrola Stream Sapphire is a $1,499 turntable with “premium” components and materials that can connect to Sonos and Roon streaming systems and also supports the Universal Plug and Play protocol (UPnP). It can also output up to 24-bit/48kHz lossless FLAC audio.
Getting beyond the jargon, this means that the Stream Sapphire can output your vinyl to a Sonos system once it’s set up on the same network as your Sonos speakers.
Did you know that Hisense is the official television manufacturer of the NBA? Exciting! We love them tall boys. You can hear all about its 2024 TV models right now at its CES press conference, which tips off at 12PM ET.
Tech innovation at CES: AI-powered cat doors
Flappie cat door (Photo by Nathan Ingraham / Engadget)
This has nothing to do with either NVIDIA or LG, but in case you weren’t following our coverage from the show last night, I do want to draw your attention to this random piece of smart home gear we saw at CES Unveiled. Flappie is a cat door that uses a camera and AI to detect if your pet’s attempting to bring a dead animal in the house and keep it out. It’s these ridiculous gadgets that make coming to the freezing Las Vegas desert every January worthwhile.
NVIDIA reveals RTX 40 Super GPU series, including the $999 4080 Super
NVIDIA RTX 40 Super GPUs (NVIDIA)
After rounding out its RTX 40 GPUs in 2023 with the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, NVIDIA has brought the inevitable follow-ups to CES 2024: slightly faster Super cards! In Las Vegas today, NVIDIA has unveiled the RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4070 Super GPUs, upgrades over its previous GPUs which aim to compete directly with AMD’s cheaper high-end cards. And of course, NVIDIA can’t help but tout how useful they’ll be for on-device AI tasks.