The company has announced that “the first games playable with the LG Magic Remote” are Cut the Rope and Thief Puzzle. Both puzzle games are available now and “optimized for seamless play” with the motion-sensing remote.
The move will “enhance synergy” and “foster synergies” all while “creating greater synergy,” according to the announcement that mentions synergy seven times.
Your folding phone’s screen isn’t anywhere near this flexible, in case you’re wondering. They said we’d see the twistable, stretchable display at Seoul Fashion Week, and sure enough:
Back in 2022, LG Display revealed high-resolution displays that can be stretched, folded, and twisted, and now we see them imagined as material that can be used in clothing and accessories.
Korean designers Youn-Hee Park and Chung-Chung Lee have incorporated them into clothing and handbags and will present them at Seoul Fashion Week.
Unlike a regular ebook, these AI-enabled digital textbooks will supposedly assess students’ reading level and change the content based on the reader. South Korea expects to be the first country in the world to use these books starting in 2025.
LG used double-stacked OLED technology for in-car screens even before it popped up in Apple’s new iPad Pros. Next up are laptops like Dell’s new XPS 13 AI PC.
Here’s what LG claims tandem OLED does for laptops:
It can deliver double the lifespan and triple the brightness of a conventional single-layer OLED display, while reducing power consumption by up to 40 percent...LG Display has been able to make it around 40 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than existing OLED laptop screens
LG’s new entry-level OLED TV, the B4, has started shipping. Starting at $1,699, it provides the core OLED benefits like perfect blacks and 120Hz gaming performance. But you’d be better off hunting down a deal on last year’s C3 while there’s still supply.
Splurging a little more on the C4 or G4 gets you better brightness, plus other bells and whistles.
Amidst the very divided reactions surrounding Apple’s new iPad Pro ad, users have dug up a 2008 commercial for the LG KC910 Renoir 8MP phone... and it looks pretty familiar.
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The company that usually specializes in premium OLED TVs has produced something refreshingly out of the ordinary. And I already hope it gets a sequel.
The StanbyME XT7 is designed to work as both a standalone Bluetooth speaker, or attached to the stand of LG’s StanbyME touchscreen TV. It also features built-in lighting effects, and supports up to 16 hours of playback.
The speaker is now available in the US and South Korea, and will expand to other regions “later” according to LG.
With some models set to start shipping as soon as next month, LG has begun sharing pricing details for its 2024 lineup of OLED TVs.
The G4, which offers the very best and brightest picture quality that LG is capable of, starts at $2,499 for the 55-inch size and goes up to $24,999 for a 97-inch model. As usual, I expect most people will stick with the C4 series, which includes more modest brightness improvements at prices that won’t break the bank — especially once sales kick in.
Stay tuned for deeper impressions of LG’s new TVs in the next couple weeks.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is South Korea-bound this week to discuss shipping a headset that incorporates webOS in 2025, Korean Economic Daily is reporting.
It’s not the first rumor that the companies might tag team the Vision Pro, and last month, LG confirmed that it was working on a new headset
Victoria Song highlighted a lot of beauty tech she saw at this year’s CES in a Verge video from this week. You could easily blink and miss Imprintu, the temporary tattoo printer. I want one. Or I did, until I saw that it’s $249.
LG’s DukeBox is pitched as a modern-day jukebox, but in person, it’s got much more potential.
A smooth-sounding 3D audio speaker with a 30-inch transparent OLED display that lets you see its retro-style insides and displays album art, the DukeBox is also a TV.
The music controls on the screen are just for show — it’s not a touch screen. But if LG ever ships this concept product it should totally be one. It would make a gorgeous smart display.
Monday was quite the whirlwind! Let’s take a step back and recap all of the fun surprises:
• Apple dropped the launch date for the Vision Pro.
• Samsung’s Ballie AI robot now doubles as a projector.
• MSI has a new Steam Deck competitor called the Claw.
• Nvidia revealed its RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super.
There’s still more to come! Stay tuned to The Verge for more CES coverage from the show floor.
At LG’s CES press conference, Erik Kay of Google came onstage to say that “LG TVs will act as hubs for Google Home, so you can easily set up and control any Matter device, see and control LG, Google, and Google Home devices right from the TV or ThinQ app.”
This means that LG TVs will act as Matter controllers for Google Home, giving you another option beyond a Google Nest Hub, Nest Mini, or Nest Wifi to use Matter devices with Google Home.
When LG showcased its new Signature OLED T at CES, the transparent TV was surrounded by furniture and shelving. But the company’s press release confirms you won’t have to use that stuff.
The OLED T comes in standalone, against-the-wall, or wall mount options. Customers can further customize by adding standing or floating shelves on either or both sides of the screen to best suit their unique tastes and preferences.
So you can hang it to the wall like any other TV if that’s your preference. You’d just better be sure things look clean back there.
