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CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work

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Post by yoodenvranx »

pitaj wrote: post #209
erik_landerholm wrote: post #106

Don’t care! It’s the golden age of tvs! Oleds are a technology that’s actually living up to the hype. I have an lg wallpaper tv and you can roll it up! The new ones look even more flexible. One even rolls up into a box. Robots will catch up. The future of TVs is now!

I want my OLED monitors. I've been waiting for years for an OLED monitor, it's my dream. The closest thing is VA+Quantum Dot monitors, but they just aren't the same.

Not sure if I want a OLED monitor with current OLED technology for everyday use. All current OLED phone displays will have (slight) burn in after 1-2 years and I am pretty sure the same would happen on a monitor which you use daily for 8-10 hours.

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Post by yoodenvranx »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #299
Laura-Vieujean wrote: post #2

What was your favorite product at CES ?

- 8K TV with HDR going to 10000 nits. Where bright objects actually do look bright. - The new LG Gram ultralight laptop. - On-screen fingerprint scanner. - Intel's voxel tech, but that's a very expensive system. - Pretty much all of NVidia's machine learning tech. - The dual-perspective projector system, very clever.

> On-screen fingerprint scanner.

From all the stuff I saw on CES this is the only thing which I _really_ want.

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Post by epmaybe »

prawn wrote: post #88
S_A_P wrote: post #84

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Have a family of 7 and get back to me on that one. Edit: not trying to be snarky but a use case for a single person or small family breaks down quickly when you have young kids and have special diets(that require an entirely different set of dishes) then you can see where automation is useful.

A family with any kids such that you're going through the bedtime routine after dinner, then exhausted and forget/avoid the dishes.

I know that my parents started making me do dishes around age 8 or 9, and I guess I hadn't really considered if that was normal or not until now. Is it normal?

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Post by larkeith »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #290
chrisco255 wrote: post #96

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What about the independents and the start-ups? No great options exist for them.

YouTube, Reddit, HN, all kinds of tech blogs.

Tech blogs, and internet media in general, serve a fundamentally different product than a trade show, with much lower information bandwidth.

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

dkersten wrote: post #304
tragomaskhalos wrote: post #301

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I don't know if there's an equivalent in the US, but here in the UK we have a TV programme "Dragons' Den" where people pitch their business ideas - which are usually invention-based - to a panel of potential investors. Easily the most intriguing aspect of the show is discovering the often inordinate amount of time, energy and money that the candidates have invested in what, to the disinterested outsider, appears to b…

Dragons Den exists in the US (and Canada) too, I believe. There’s also Shark Tank. I quite enjoy watching Dragons Den (and Shark Tank on youtube). I agree with your second paragraph completely. I also totally undrestand it, having cofounded startups myself in the past. You get tunnel vision.

"Shark Tank" is what "Dragons' Den" is known as outside of the UK. It's the same show.

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Post by andybak »

mahmud wrote: post #51
CapitalistCartr wrote: post #9

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1) Get two dishwashers. Alternate them clean/dirty. Think of them as self-washing cabinets from sci-fi. 2) Get a laundry service or maid service. Save thousands of dollars.

Am I the only one that washes dishes immediately after use? No need to even use the machine. Wash immediately after use, let them dry on rack, wipe and put away. Dishes and laundry are a total non-issue.

Me and my partner generate enough dirty dishes between us that a dishwasher is a wonderful thing to have.

Maybe it's my cooking techniques that are the problem. I do somehow manage to use 6 pans to make a dinner for 2.

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Post by rsynnott »

bane wrote: post #5

Here's what I want robots to do: 1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically. 2) Wash and dry my clothes, fold them and put them away completely automatically. These two things would save me hours of work per week. FoldiMate simply isn't even close to being good enough, but I'd be willing to spend about that much for a robot that could do #2. I can vacuum my floor by myself and greet people…

> Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically.

Get two dishwashers (or a two-drawer dishwasher). When one is dirty, put it on, and use the clean dishes from the other. Continue rotating dishes between dishwashers, forever.

Can't help you with the clothes thing (though a washer-dryer gets you part of the way there).

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Post by rsynnott »

bigiain wrote: post #178
Merad wrote: post #152

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> I can vacuum my floor by myself If you're in the HN demographic that likes to live in small urban apartments then you may not see value in automated vacuuming, but believe me they are filling a need for many people. My 68 year old mom decided to get one last year, prompted by discussions with several of her friends. She loves it so much that she's become something of a Roomba evangelical - last I checked she's talk…

I get a real kick out of getting home after the vacuuming robot has been doing my housework while I'm out :-) I'd love a similarly simple way to press a button and have my laundry done - I've seen combined washer/dryers, but I'd love something that sorted and folded everything for me... (Interestingly, I live alone, and do not have any motivation to buy a dishwasher.)

I live alone, and you'll pry my dishwasher from my cold dead hands. If I didn't have one, I'd probably cook a lot less; it really simplifies cleaning up.

I also have a washer-dryer, though mostly for space reasons.

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Post by rsynnott »

UweSchmidt wrote: post #258
emdowling wrote: post #231

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I live alone and have a “half width” dishwasher. It’s amazing at saving me time but also clutter. No dirty dishes on the bench top. The thing is on every night. Research has also shown it uses far less water and energy than hand washing. By far the best investment I ever made for house cleaning though is a cordless Dyson vacuum. It’s mounted on the wall and I end up vacuuming (5 mins max) every day so it hardly feels…

Less water and energy, but using a brutal kind of soap that is surely more harmful to the environment than hand wash soap.

Old-fashioned dishwasher detergents caused significant phosphate pollution, but since the regulations were changed, they're considerably less nasty.

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Post by DeepYogurt »

Tepix wrote: post #254
DeepYogurt wrote: post #237

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You can also just get two washing machines. Load all the dirties into one then run it and as you use them load them into the other. Bam. Clean dishes and no putting them away.

You mean dish washers?

Yes.
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