CES 2019: Lexar introduces 1TB SD card

SanDisk showed off a 1TB SD prototype a couple of years back, but the company isn’t the first one to bring this storage capacity to the market. American company Lexar is. The company’s Professional 633x line of SDHC and SDXC UHS-I cards now have cards that start from 16GB up to 1TB. The card claims read speeds of up to 95MB/s and write speeds of 70MB/s. These are rated as V30/U3, which guarantees a sustained write performance of 30MB/s. With storage that big, expect to pay a lot for it. The 1TB model goes for US$499.99. It’s possible to get two 512GB cards for less, but the premium price might come from getting this tech breakthrough off the ground.

Source: The Verge

CES 2019: DJI launches Smart Controller with built-in display for your drone

Don’t want to use your phone and tablet to see what’s happening with your drone? DJI just released a new Smart Controller with an ultra-bright display and all the controls you’ve come expect from a DJI controller. With the 5.5-inch display built into the controller, that’s one less thing to have to setup when you want to fly your drone. At the moment, it’s compatible with the new Mavic 2 Zoom and Mavic 2 Pro. The Mavic 2 Enterprise series will be supported in future updates.

The Smart Controller comes with an ultra-bright display that has an output of 1000cd/m2, which is twice the brightness of standard smartphones. The display also shows flight video in Full HD resolution, making it easier and clearer to see what you’re shooting. The controller comes pre-loaded with an Android dashboard with support for DJI GO 4 and DJI Pilot applications. The DJI GO 4 app gets SkyTalk feature, which lets the pilot livestream the drone’s camera feed to social media. It promises a battery life of 2.5 hours and can operate in temperatures as cold as -4° Fahrenheit and as hot as 104° Fahrenheit. Charging time is set around two hours as well. It’s going to set you back a pretty penny though. The Smart Controller retails for US$649 and will be available in early 2019. DJI plans to release a bundle with the Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, but we don’t know how much that’ll retail.

Source: Drone Life + Digital Trends

CES 2019: Customize every key with Nemeio e-paper keyboard

Keyboards are only customizable to a certain degree. But for the many years since the input method has been around, its format hasn’t really changed. There is, as Slash Gear points out, “still no one keyboard to fit all.” But perhaps, we’ve found a solution for that with the Nemeio e-paper keyboard. The French company has developed a keyboard that doesn’t just let you change keyboard mappings but lets you change what’s displayed from letters to numbers to even icons. By using e-paper technology, this solves one of the biggest issues with customizable keyboards. The keys aren’t engraved or etched, so these can be everything you want it to be. Plus e-paper technology is seen as an energy-efficient way to achieve this.

Nemeio’s keyboard connects to PCs or Macs via Bluetooth, highlighting the portability of this accessory. As expected, it requires a special program to map out the keys. But it’s as simple as dragging and dropping the keys you want where you want them. Unfortunately, there is no word yet on when or how much this unnamed product is going to be. But we’re hoping to hear from the company soon.

CES 2019: Holoride looks to revolutionize in-car entertainment with VR

Trying to think about mixing virtual reality and real-life car rides seem like a recipe for disaster. Just thinking about it makes us slightly nauseous. But this is what Holoride and Audi (which has spun out the company from its operations) hope to change. The two offered an in-car VR experience at CES in partnership with Disney. Holoride and Audi let tech and motoring journalists try out a VR experience called Marvel’s Avengers: Rocket’s Rescue Run. The concept is to change in-car entertainment with the passengers inside an Audi e-tron strapped into a VR headset. The unique thing is the content replicates the movement of the car. So, if the car speeds up, so does the ship. If it turns, then the perspective shifts, too.

Holoride plans to release a software development kit so that developers and other automakers can create an experience of their own. The SDK will serve as the interface to the vehicle data and transfer those into virtual realities, allowing the developers to create games and movies that sync with the user’s motion in the car. According to Audi, even conventional movies, shows, or presentations can be viewed with less chance of motion sickness. The company aims to release VR entertainment on the market within the next three years using standard VR headsets for backseat passengers.

Source: Tech Crunch + VRFocus