CES 2025: Most Impressive Products We've Seen So Far 🔥

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

It's been two days since CES 2025 started. Join us for a look at the most impressive products shown so far.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• The Best Tech from CES 2025 So Far 🔥

• AI Tutorial: How to create AI-Generated video podcasts with HeyGen

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

CES 2025

The Best Tech from CES 2025 So Far 🔥

CES 2025 is now well underway, and we've already seen a bunch of amazing announcements since day one. Here are some of the best innovations you need to know about so far.

• Halliday Smart Glasses 👓

These smart glasses feature “proactive” AI assistance and a near-eye display that shows information directly in the user’s field of view.

• The Withings OMNIA, a 360° body-scanning health mirror 🩺

This smart mirror can measure and display your health metrics, offer feedback from an AI voice assistant, and then potentially set you up for a telehealth consultation with a doctor.

• Holobox Mini ✨

A hologram machine that puts your likeness in a tiny box

• A spoon that makes food taste better 🥄

Kirin's Electric Salt spoon uses electric currents to concentrate sodium ion molecules and amplify the taste of salt and umami

• SwitchBot Multitasking Household Robot K20 Plus Pro 🤖

It does everything you need a robovac to do, plus several other things, such as purifying, monitoring, and cooling your home.

• Samsung's AI smart mirror gives beauty advice 👀

Samsung's 'MICRO LED Beauty Mirror' scans your face to provides you with a personalised skin report, followed by product suggestions.

• The world's first electric-assisted skis ⛷️

The E-Skimo system by E-Outdoor uses a rubber tread under the skis, along with a lightweight battery and a portable controller, to help boost your mountain climbs or cross-country skiing.

• Swippitt phone toaster 📱

You can insert your phone into a toaster-looking contraption and get a full charge in seconds.

• Roborock Saros Z70

This robovac features an articulated five-axis robot arm that can pick up after its owners and move obstacles out of its way. It’s currently limited to smaller items like socks, tissues, or anything weighing less than 300 grams.

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AI Tutorial

How to create AI-Generated video podcasts with HeyGen

Generate a two-speaker AI Video podcast from a PDF or YouTube link in just a few clicks.

1. Go to HeyGen's website and sign up.

2. Navigate to the Labs section (bottom left) and click on Video Podcast to access the tool.

3. Upload Your Content
   Enter a text-based website link, such as an article or story, and hit Enter, or upload a PDF file to get started.

4. Customize Your Video

   • Select your avatars (choose two to simulate a conversation).

   • Choose your video ratio and time preference.

   • Decide if you want captions enabled.

5. Process and Download
   Click Submit to process your video. Wait a few seconds, and once it’s generated, you can download or share it.

AI Tools to check out

🎆 Spellbook: Draft and review contracts 10x faster.

👀 Agentplace: A platform for creating interactive AI websites and apps.

🦾 DataMorf: Helps you to streamline data workflows and automate pipelines effortlessly with real-time, AI-powered transformations.

🥐 Bakery: Easily fine-tune & monetize your AI models with one click.

📝 Sincero: Make feedback easy using AI.

AI Findings/Resources

🦾 A NotebookLM + Perplexity workflow that will cut your research time by 50%

👀 The next generation will never know a world without AI

🤔 Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

🔍 4 ways artificial intelligence revealed the unexpected in 2024

The latest in AI and Tech

Inworld AI is partnering with Nvidia and Streamlabs on an "Intelligent Streaming Assistant" for streamers

This new AI assistant can provide real-time tech support and context-based commentary during games, acting like a co-host.

AI startup Anthropic to raise $2 billion at $60 billion valuation

Anthropic is finalizing a $2 billion investment led by Lightspeed, pushing its valuation to $60 billion. This marks a sharp rise from its $18 billion valuation last year.

President-Elect Trump announces $20B US investment by Emirati businessman

Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani has pledged $20 billion to build data centers across the U.S. in the coming years.

Panasonic teams up with AI startup Anthropic

Panasonic introduced its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which offers a personalized, AI-powered wellness coach. Umi uses the Claude AI model to help families "care, coordinate, and connect" with each other.

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