Who wants buttons when you will have screens? Debuting on the Mercedes-Benz EQS electrical luxurious sedan this yr, the MBUX Hyperscreen is a 55.5-inch-wide show that spans the complete dashboard. It is made up of three haptic OLED touchscreens beneath one steady piece of Corning Gorilla glass. The driving force and entrance passenger every get a large 12- by 3-inch display, with an 18-inch display between them for navigation, HVAC controls, smartphone messaging, and media controls. The passenger show can play video, and the driving force show exhibits gauges and all the data you’d anticipate, such because the remaining vary on the electrical automobile.

Mercedes’ press briefing additionally confirmed off a UFO graphic that zooms round on the show to display the g-force the automotive is present process in real-time. Why they selected to measure g-force, I do not know. Automakers already wrestle to maintain the driving force’s info feed straightforward to know, and drivers don’t have to know g-forces. Hopefully it may be disabled.

The MBUX Hyperscreen was created fully in-house by Mercedes-Benz, and it requires eight CPU cores (processor unknown) and 24 GB of RAM to energy it. The tech will trickle to different Mercedes fashions after its debut on the EQS, assuming consumers actually do need an all-touch interface.

Study extra in regards to the MBUX Hyperscreen right here.

—Matt Jancer

Philips Is All In on Tooth and Sleep

Philips usually makes highly effective and glossy electrical toothbrushes, and like most toothbrush firms as of late, it’s been incorporating good options into them. Its latest is the Sonicare 9900 Status, with auto-syncing so that you don’t need to have an app open each time you sweep (one thing we noticed and cherished with the Colgate Hum). It additionally claims to personalize your brushing expertise, by sensing your approach and adapting in actual time. So should you have a tendency to use an excessive amount of stress, it could routinely regulate the depth.

Philips additionally has a tele-dentistry service, so you will get solutions to your tooth considerations with out venturing into the Covid-infested world.

In case you care extra about your sleep, the corporate additionally debuted a sleep apnea signs quiz and masks selector at CES. Sufferers get a photograph taken of their face that may decide the very best masks for them to put on, which can hopefully make sleeping in a comic-book-villain-style masks a bit extra comfy. Nonetheless, that should be achieved at a taking part location, which could not be obtainable to everybody. 

—Medea Giordano

Cobalt-Free Batteries Are Coming

Immediately at CES, Panasonic touted new batteries with lower than 5 p.c cobalt and pledged to work towards cobalt-free batteries “within the subsequent few years.”

Lithium-ion batteries energy practically each gadget you personal, however likelihood is you do not know a lot about what’s inside your battery. Lithium batteries do not simply include lithium, additionally they use cobalt as a cathode materials inside the battery. Immediately nicely over half of the world’s cobalt provide comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and quite a few investigations have discovered little one labor and harmful working situations rife inside the cobalt provide chain.

Panasonic is likely one of the largest lithium-ion battery producers on the planet and provides the cells for Tesla’s battery packs.

—Scott Gilbertson

Belkin’s Linksys Hones in on Wi-Fi 6E