Neither rain, nor mudslides, nor flight delays have stopped the 200,000-plus attendees and over 3,600 exhibitors from around the globe from getting to this biggest consumer tech show of the year. CES 2016 has drones, virtual reality, wearables, 3D TVS, OLED laptops, and especially smarthome appliances—anything and everything related to the Internet of Things is here at this year’s CES which runs until January 9th held at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Today Randi hosted ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg’ live from the expo floor at the Toyota booth and was joined by Jeremy Kaplan the Editor–in-Chief of Digital Trends, Martin-Luc Archambault CEO of AmpMe, Adam Freeman, Host of ‘Monday Night with Adam’ on HSN, and Jim Pisz, the North American Business Strategy Corporate Manager for Toyota Motor Sales to discuss the newest tech at CES:
“Our Kikai line means ‘machine’ in Japanese—because it’s the beauty of the machine.”
“The beauty of a machine is so neglected nowadays.”
“We believe that fuel cell cars will be the product of the future.”
“We’ll be driving cars that aid drivers and is autonomous.”
“Driving is easy but there is some uncertainty that AI can help fix.”
“Every manufacturer is building some sort of electric car.”
“Hydrogen produces all the electricity you need to fuel a car.”
“It’s been a wonderful experience to look at the other autos here. Mercedes has some really great stuff.”
“There’s all this data floating around that we’re going to have to deal with. “
“Sometimes it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.”
“Toyota is very involved at the Maker Faire.”
“We have a group of young people moving into the field, changing the way an old company can grow.”
“The pig in Japanese is a lucky animal. Our engineers put 5 of Easter eggs of pigs in the Kikai.”
“The demonstration here is that the car energy bleed off can charge the car next to it.”
“I have a smart doorbell at my house. You can click the ‘accept’ button and freak people out.”
“AmpMe is the world’s most portable sound system.”
“AmpMe is a free app to create ideally the biggest sound system.”
“I want to mobilize music.”
“This is the first tech company I’ve started up in the music space.”
“CES allows dreamers to dream and show whatever is on their mind. You can push tech further.”
“I had one of the first Teslas in Canada. The first ‘wow’ moment I had was when it started driving itself.”
“It’s important for me to come here. You need to travel to see what advancements are being made.”
“I invested in startup that uses virtual reality. Tracking the eyeball is magical.”
“We sync phones together to create a huge soundsystem.”
“Our challenge was how we create the experience in a loud expo, so we created a sound booth.”
“When you hear a song you love ten times louder than normal, it’s emotional. It gives you shivers”
“The more you talk about your idea, the better.”
“One of the things I’d like to see is speakers on phone to become better.”
“This is such a journey for me here. This year it’s seeing the advancements in wearables.”
“One of the great things about working at HSN is telling the stories.”
“I was captivated by the televisions here.”
“There’s so much concept stuff here. So many things to look at.”
“People are really motivated to be in charge of what they’re doing.”
“One of the things we found on HSN is how we’ve grow in tech. It’s bigger than it’s ever been.”
“The hardest thing to demonstrate is virtual reality on TV.”
“The viewers love to hear what’s new and what’s out there.”
“We live in such a different time now. Now it’s easy to get funding to get something going.”
“One of the best parts of my job is working with new investors.”
“Communicating your story and your advantage is something entrepreneurs need to do.”
“People walk up to me everyday saying they have the next big thing.”
“CES is crazy. There are hundreds of thousands of people here. It’s kind of overwhelming but when you push through and see the small guys it’s fascinating.”
“The scale that tweets out your weight will not sell on HSN, I’ll tell you that.”
Jeremy Kaplan“I heard the same thing from a few car companies here, and that’s the need for collaboration.”
“We’re talking about finding a parking spot next to a car that needs help recharging.”
“We’re at a pivotal point where everything about the car industry is shifting.”
“Usually you see concept cars at expos, but this is the place where great car companies are coming to show off the possibilities.”
“We take cruise control for granted. Now cars are coming out with adjustable cruise control.”
“Cars, the big thing everyone will talk about is how well represented the future of cars is.”
“4K televisions are everywhere here.”
“There was a Chinese company that has a taxi drone. It flies you.”
“Drones went from being cheap toys to big business.”
“It’s easy to Kickstart a project, but making things is really hard. Producing something is the really hard part.”
“There’s a funny dichotomy between the stuff that’s real and the stuff that might not work.”
“Imagine if phones were all being charged by just sitting there. The Cota is wireless power.”
“A lot of the trends are similar but the reality is different.”
“All of these smarthome products are real, all of them are here, but none of them are talking to each other so that’s a real problem.”
Join ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg’ next week when Yalda Uhls, author of ‘Media Moms and Digital Dads’ joins the show. Only on SiriusXM Business Channel 111, 9am PST/12ET!
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