One of the fun things about CES is a completely different approach to established technology standards. Displace 55-inch OLED TV Not only runs on batteries and has a pop-up camera, but also attaches with a vacuum seal to most walls and windows. There are even handles on the frame. Is this the end of wall mounts? Probably not.
It apparently holds itself in place with multiple suction loops on the back. When the screen detects a surface, the vacuums kick in, sucking the device over the surface of your choice. Displace TV can also do without a power cord because it doesn’t do much onboard image processing. It basically involves streaming media from a base station that does the rendering. So no wires and no ports on the OLED TV itself.
There are more oddities. You can watch around six hours of content before swapping batteries, and there’s no remote, so you’ll have to endure the erratic method of hand gestures – which I don’t think anyone really likes. At $3,000, however, the Displace TV is, predictably, expensive. Only 100 units are available for pre-order at the moment, and the company said shipping will begin in December. And if you get four, you can apparently stitch them together to create a 110-inch 8K TV.
—Mat Smith
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