Samsung is on a mission towards a smarter home, as Architizer saw Monday during the brand’s Consumer Electronics Show presentation. These are the four top gadgets we’d like to live with.
Super Surround Sound
Samsung’s Audiolab has developed an “omnidirectional sound experience” for our modern multi-tasking world with the egg-shaped WAM7500 and WAM6500. “Unlike traditional loud speakers that beam sound straight ahead like a flashlight,” said Samsung Electronics America executive VP Joe Stinziano. “It’s more like a lightbulb, filling the room evenly.” (The portable WAM6500 is even appropriately lantern-looking with its handle.) Its so-called “ring radiator technology” projects sound in all directions, vertically and horizontally, throughout a room and throughout the home. And yes, of course, it’s smartphone-synced.
Virtual Flame Technology
Michelin-starred chefs graced the stage to showcase the new collaboratively-designed amenities of the Samsung Chef Collection. The most sci-fi? The Virtual Flame, an LED-lit glass induction top for the Samsung Chef Collection Slide-In Induction Range. “A small or large flame shows the intensity of the heat,” said the three-starred Christopher Kostow. “This lets everyone cook more precisely.” Also, there’s celebrity chef-themed recipe app for that — available for its own Club des Chefs tablet.
Active Wash
It’s the washing machine for the time-strapped, space-deprived, and stain-prone. This new model features a 36-minute wash time, slim profile, and sink-in-sink feature that provides a pre-treating soak space above the washing barrel.
Sculptural TV
For Samsung’s new 82-inch, razor-thin curved S9W television monitor, industrial design darling Yves Béhar literally put the hyper-realistic picture quality of cutting-edge SUHD technology on a pedestal — technically, a sleek box that actually contains all of the operational hardware. “In a way it’s like art… Sculptures are literally elevated from the ground,” Behar said during his cameo appearance. “The base provides the intelligence that makes the screen do extraordinary things. This allowed us to remove all complexity from the display.”
Rosie the Robot, v0.1
The POWERbot VR9000 robotic vacuum cleaner gets around; its Visionary Mapping Plus technology calculates the most efficient path through your home to get everything clean, plus its Digital Inverter Motor features 60 times the suction power of previous robotic vacuum models. Because it knows the layout of your space, it even finds its way back to its charging dock when its power is low.