CES is more than just a neon-drenched show-and-treat session for the world’s biggest tech makers. More and more, it’s also a place where companies showcase innovations that can truly make the world a better place — and at CES 2023, this type of technology was on full display. We looked at everything from accessibility-minded PS5 controllers to pedal-powered smart desks. But of all the amazing innovations showcased this year, these three impressed us the most:
Samsung’s Relumino Mode
Worldwide, about 300 million people suffer from moderate to severe vision loss, and generally speaking, most TVs don’t take this into account. So in an effort to make television more accessible and enjoyable for the millions of people who suffer from low vision, Samsung is adding a new picture mode to many of its new TVs.
Relumino Mode, as it’s called, works by adding a bunch of different visual filters together in a picture. The outlines of people and objects on the screen are highlighted, the contrast and brightness of the overall picture are cranked up, and extra sharpness is applied to everything. The resulting video may look odd to people with normal vision, but to people with low vision, it should look clearer and closer to “normal” than it would otherwise.
Encouragingly, since Relumino mode is ultimately just a clever software trick, this technology could theoretically be pushed out via a software update and installed on millions of existing Samsung TVs – not just new and recent ones. Bought in
acapella group my own voice
My Own Voice is originally audio deepfake technology streamlined, simplified and reimagined as a tool to help people – specifically, people who may eventually lose the ability to speak due to illness or injury . Functionally, the platform allows users to artificially clone their voice and preserve the unique tone, timbre and personality that makes it theirs – something that is usually not possible with text-to-speech software (Stephen Hawking, or text-to-text). speech function on your MacBook).
The software can create an impressively realistic voice clone after listening to just 50 sentences of reference audio, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the massive data sets that are usually needed to create a convincing voice clone. To be fair, this isn’t necessarily new technology, but it’s really exciting to see it being applied to helping people — and not just making novelty smartphone apps and silly YouTube overdub videos.
Samsung’s ‘less microfiber’ technology
Microplastics are everywhere. They’re in our oceans, they’re in our food, and they’re even in our bodies. By some estimates, we consume approx. a credit card’s worth of plastic Every few weeks—and a variety of studies have shown that plastic is messing with both our bodies and ecosystems in a big way. Samsung’s new lace microfibre technology aims to help with this.
How? Well, one of the biggest sources of microplastics is wash our clothes, As we wash our clothes, synthetic fibers like polyester and nylon break down into tiny pieces, then eventually make it down the drain and into our waterways. So in an effort to stop that process, Samsung has developed two technologies: a special wash cycle that requires less agitation and therefore creates fewer microfibers while washing, as well as an inline filter that captures any fibers. Joe makes it and goes inside. drain hose. The best part, however, is that Samsung designed the filter to be compatible with any washer—not just the ones it makes and sells.
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