 Linus Tech Tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCIX.com, your source for great technology, selection and service, along with Corsair memory and Western Digital. We're kicking things off at the LG booth with a couple of major themes of the show overall. So one of which being curved TVs, LG is showing off the world's largest curved Ultra HD TV. Now one of the other common themes here is 4K, but not to be outdone by what everyone else is doing. LG has delivered a 21x9, 5K curved TV. Now to be clear guys, this is absolutely massive. This is 105 inches diagonally, which to put it in perspective is if you play basketball and you're trying to put the ball in the basket from the free throw line, you would have to actually throw it about the distance of the diagonal width of this TV. Now the objective of curved TVs is of course to enhance the image quality by having every part of the screen be an equal distance from your eyes compared to the more traditional flat TV style. Now you might be looking at this going, okay, well this is like space age technology. Can we expect to buy one in 2020? If you have the funds and they're not talking about pricing yet, you could actually buy one of these this year. They are releasing it in 2014. Alright, so let's move on to something that is a little bit more space age. Now if the objective of a curved TV is to have the viewing angles be absolutely optimal, regardless of how far away you are from the TV, then you're going to need something a little bit different. This my friends is the world's first flexible curved TV. Now that's not to say that it's flexible in terms of somewhere at their manufacturing plant, they're like, okay, it's manufactured out of some sort of, you know, flexible OLED screen and they can then they put it on a solid background. No, the idea is that with a remote control, you can actually take this phenomenally thin 4K OLED TV and adjust it on the fly for the optimal picture quality. We have no idea when this is coming, but what I can tell you guys is having the privilege of being able to stand right next to it, it still looks absolutely amazing. The problem with the best image quality in the world and the most advanced technology is that quite frankly, my aunt, bless her heart, I hope she's not watching, simply can't use it. Now LG acquired WebOS from HP earlier in 2013 and we are now seeing the fruits of that acquisition in the form of WebOS integrated directly with their new smart TVs. Now there are a few advantages here that are sort of on a more granular level, but the overarching message is simplicity. It is much, much simpler to use than existing smart TV systems, which quite frankly, my aunt and even my mother who's slightly more technical than my aunt also can't handle. So number one is the launcher down here. You can launch different apps in much the same way that you would on something like a tablet or a smartphone, which makes sense because WebOS was on tablets before, so you know, right, it's obvious. You can look at sort of your recent applications, so we can fire up a web browser here, go to CNN.com. You can switch back using the recent application feature to the Blu-ray disc that was playing before. That will take a few seconds though, guys, just because of HDMI's handshake process that has to occur here. It's also got, now this is really cool, what they're calling input assist. So there's a Blu-ray player down here. Unfortunately, I can't demo this one live, but if you plug in something like an Xbox 360, the idea is that you plug it in and it goes, okay, boom, you've got an Xbox 360. We're going to go ahead and add you something, a little icon in the launcher here so that you don't even have to like really think about it anymore. HDMI 1, HDMI 2, that's too complicated for my mother and my aunt. So LG was specifically trying to address that for me. The last thing is the live menu, the fact that you don't have to navigate away to a separate menu structure with a static background. You can actually keep your content playing in the background and navigate all of your Smart TV's features. Next up, we've got my first hands-on time with the LG G Flex. This is the world's first curved smartphone. I mean, let's go through the regular standard phone stuff first. So it has a 6-inch plastic OLED display, which I guess isn't that standard, considering that's the largest P.O. LED display on the market at this time. It has a 3500 milliamp hour battery, which I guess also isn't unexceptional, is exceptional because that happens to be curved as well. It's got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. It's got however much storage you decide you want based on what your needs are. And it's got a lock button as well as volume control that's on the back of the phone. I guess none of this is really that standard. So what's LG trying to do here by doing a bunch of non-standard stuff with their phones? They're trying to make the interface and the way that you interact with it more natural. So there's a couple things that this does. Number one is a curved phone puts the microphone closer to your mouth, so sound quality can be improved. Number two is when you're enjoying content, this is sort of the year of curved TVs, they want you to be able to enjoy that curved display experience even when you're just watching videos on your smartphone. Now in terms of carrying the thing around, does it fit in your hand? Does it cradle a little bit more comfortably? In spite of the six inch size, I would actually go as far as to say, yeah, it kind of does already. You can really tell. It's just a more natural position for your hand. I mean electronics in the past have been flat, not because they should be necessarily, but out of necessity. And one other feature they have, they call the doesn't make your bum fall asleep as often and as badly, no, what they say is it fits more comfortably in your back pocket and more naturally when you put it in there because of its flexibility. Now you might worry, you might go, okay, well I don't put my phone in my back pocket because I'm worried about it being damaged as a straight phone. Maybe I'm not exactly, the curvature of my glutes isn't quite like this. I'm still worried about breaking it. Don't worry, the flex is not only for the curved nature of the display, but also for the flexibility of the display. You can actually curve it back pretty much to a straight position without damaging the phone. And then speaking of durability, this is a feature that's been getting a lot of airtime guys, is the fact that the back is self-healing. No, you're not going to be able to take an ice pick to it, but if you put it in your pocket with your keys or whatever else, we've pretty much started taking Gorilla Glass for granted, but the plastic backs on these phones tend to develop micro scratches very, very quickly. Not so much with this one. You leave it for, you know, 15 minutes, half an hour, particularly in a warm environment, and those micro scratches will disappear almost completely. Closing things out at the LG booth, we've got the LifeBand Touch. Now, the unique thing about this particular fitness wearable is that, unlike others, where you have to link them to something like a smartphone, like whether it's an iOS or an Android smartphone in order to monitor your stats, particularly on a daily basis, you don't have to with this one. It operates completely standalone. It's got both an Acceltimeter, so, you know, it can track things like your steps, your calorie count, but it can also even help you train for things like marathons. Now, in order to turn it on, you just go ahead and flick your wrist, there you go, and the display lights up. This helps maintain a very solid multi-day battery life, which is excellent when you compare it to other sort of more smartwatchy, feature-rich devices, which is something I actually prefer. I'm using a Pebble myself right now, and I find that having a low-power display, even if I lose some of the extra fancy features, is definitely a plus. Now, what can you do with that touchscreen display? Well, you can change your music tracks, you can accept phone calls and all that kind of stuff, if you have it linked to a smartphone, but other than that, you can use it to track things like your calorie consumption that day, and you can set little achievements and goals for yourself, and just generally use it to enable a more healthy lifestyle. Now, from a pure sort of, okay, I'm going to wear this every day perspective, it's quite comfortable, and it does a few useful things, but if you're actually going for an intensive workout, and you want even more stats, you can plug in the included earphones that have a battery-powered Bluetooth link right here, and this will give you, obviously, the ability to listen to music, but also the ability to monitor your heart rate and the oxygenation of your blood. So, I think we're pretty much done here, guys. I think they actually need these. So, we're going to wrap things up. Thanks for checking out our coverage of the LG booth here at CES 2014. 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