The Morning After: A wi-fi 55-inch OLED TV that sticks to the wall | Engadget

One of the enjoyable issues about CES is a very completely different method to established tech norms. Displace’s 55-inch OLED TV not solely runs on batteries and has a pop-out digital camera but additionally attaches itself with a vacuum seal to most partitions and home windows. There are even handles on the body. Is this the top of wall mounts? Probably not.

It apparently retains itself in place by means of a number of vacuum loops on the again. When the show detects a floor, the vacuums kick in, sucking the machine to the floor of your selection. Displace TV may also do with out a energy twine as a result of it does not do a lot picture processing onboard. It’s mainly streaming media from a base station that performs the rendering. So no wires and no ports on the OLED TV itself.

There are extra quirks. You might watch roughly six hours of content material earlier than swapping out batteries, and there’s no distant, so that you’ll must undergo the erratic technique of hand gestures – which I do not assume anybody really likes. At $3,000, although, the Displace TV is predictably dear. Only 100 items can be found for pre-order for the time being, and the corporate mentioned delivery begins in December. And in the event you get 4 of them, apparently you possibly can put them collectively to create a 110-inch 8K TV.

– Mat Smith

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