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Jan 7 12 tweets 4 min read Read on X
It's only been 1 day of CES 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible.

The 10 most impressive reveals of CES 2025 so far:

1. A 360° AI-powered body scanning health mirror that can scan your heart, weight, and metabolic health
2. Roborock's Saros Z70: A robotic vacuum that has a mechanical arm for picking up objects in the way of cleaning the floor
3. Halliday Glasses: Smart glasses with a 3.5-inch internal monochrome display

These glasses are equipped with an AI agent that can listen to conversations, answer questions during meetings, and do live translation
4. Project DIGITS by NVIDIA: A $3000 personal supercomputer that's 1,000x the power of an average laptop
5. BYD's supercar, Yangwang U9, jumping 6 meters forward (over potholes)
6. A pen with three cameras at the tip that turns any surface of the world into a canvas with notes synced and recorded to your phone
7. NVIDIA Cosmos: An open source, open weight Video World Model designed for the upcoming age of robotics source
8. Portalgraph: A 3D projector that projects VR space into the real world
9. Samsung Vision AI TVs that come with real-time translation, the ability to adapt to user preferences, AI upscaling, and instant content summaries
10. NVIDIA GB200 NVL2: A datacenter superchip with 72 Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 exaFLOPS, and 130 transistors
That's it for day 1. It's going to be a wild week!

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