<span>CES 2020, one of the biggest consumer electronics trade fairs in the world, has brought together not only </span><span>tech giants, but also some of the industry leaders in </span><span>aviation, health and automobile</span><span>.</span> <span><em>The National</em></span><span> takes a look at the </span><span>innovations </span><span>presented on the first day of the five-day event.</span> <span>US airline Delta </span><span>will implement technologies such as "virtual queuing" and "parallel reality" in the coming months. Ed Bastian, who became the first</span><span> airline chief executive to </span><span>present on the CES stage, said virtual queuing will send alerts to passengers</span><span> when their seating zone is ready for boarding.</span> <span>“That means there is no need to cluster at the gate … waiting for your boarding group,” Mr Bastian said.</span> <span>Parallel reality will be a huge display screen </span><span>where </span><span>passengers </span><span>would be able to scan their boarding passes and get </span><span>information related to their trips.</span> <span>Segway, a US manufacturer of two-wheeled personal transporters, unveiled an </span><span>egg-shaped vehicle, S-Pod.</span> <span>Riders can sit in them </span><span>and cruis</span><span>e through malls, theme parks and airports. The self-balancing pods, which can go to speeds up to 38.6 kilometres per hour, </span><span>is controlled by a small knob on the right-hand side of the seat.</span> <span>S-Pod will debut in the third quarter of this year and the company plans to sell it to the public in early</span><span> 2021. Price</span><span> was not disclosed.</span> <span>Virtual human beings were on display, developed by Samsung-backed start-up Neon, which makes video chatbots. Neons are </span><span>unlike virtual assistants and are capable of having real-life conversations with users.</span> <span>They can also learn </span><span>skills, adapt to </span><span>situations, amass memories and act as a personal assistant, health advis</span><span>er and life coach</span><span>. </span><span>Users can have a video chat with the bots </span><span>on large displays and can see them </span><span>sitting beside them like another person.</span> <span>Every time you connect to the internet, hundreds of </span><span>companies </span><span>are watching you. </span><span>Winston, a pocket-sized device installed between WiFi router and modem, strips away corporate tracking and surveillance that invades </span><span>privacy and makes the internet slower. </span> <span>It promises to deliver true online privacy in a way that a virtual priva</span><span>te network </span><span>and ad blocker cannot. It will also speed up the internet by barring many unwanted online trackers and ads from loading.</span> Technology company Intel shared significant updates to its laptop innovation programme, code-named “Project Athena”, designed to deliver a new class of advanced laptops, including “foldable” laptops with screens on each side of a display. <span>Since its debut last year, the initiative has verified 25 laptop designs against the programme's first specification and key experience targets. The company aim</span><span>s to verify approximately 50 more device designs and deliver a target specification for the emerging dual-screen laptop category this year.</span> <span>South Korean company LG unveiled its </span> <span>AI washing machine that can detect the volume and weight of each </span><span>laundry load and also </span><span>identify fabric types</span><span>.</span> <span>Through machine learning, the washer </span><span>compares this information against more than 20,000 data points to programme the optimal wash cycle </span><span>for </span><span>best results. It improves cleaning and extends the life of garments by 15 per cent, the company said.</span>
