The Morning After: Friday, January 6th, 2017
Stable as a table.
Hey, good morning!
We've reached the midpoint of CES, and we're meeting airport robots, staring at self-balancing motorbikes and asking Ron Jeremy about his vision of the future. Of course.
Honda's amazing self-balancing motorcycle defies gravity
Honda's Riding Assist technology finally has a proper home, after years of research on balance technology. The bike Honda showed off at CES doesn't just help a person keep a bike upright, though. The motorcycle also keeps itself upright, even without a rider.
Ron Jeremy predicts porn's ... present?
Porn star Ron Jeremy's vision of the sex industry's future isn't so far off from the one being pushed by futurists and the media. He sees the return of big-budget porn, VR-connected male masturbators and sex robots with holographic faces. It could be a sexy future.
'Star Trek' fan film loses fair use case, moves to jury trial
After successfully raising more than a million dollars to create a professional-grade homage to the Star Trek brand, producers of fan-flick Axanar were hit with a lawsuit. They were assured that it would be dropped but were eventually still taken to court. The filmmakers stood their ground and argued a case of fair use, but ultimately lost.
LG made a robot for inside airports
LG's humanoid-sized Airport Guide Robot will accept exactly that. Feed it your boarding pass, and it will tell you how to get to your gate and when your flight is going to take off. Heck, it'll even walk you to you boarding area.
Sony's new 4K OLED TV is a thing of beauty
Sony didn't have too much to show at CES this year, but it did finally reveal its first OLED 4K TV. The horrifically named XBR-A1E comes in 55-, 65- or 77-inch sizes, capable of spitting out Ultra HD and high dynamic range (HDR) with ease. The most intriguing part, however, is the "Acoustic Surface," which integrates the speaker into the screen itself.
