The groundbreaking wireless TV removes the remote and sticks to any wall without the need for a mount

We have many hours left CES week and I counted countless TVs that I had my eyes on. Don’t get me wrong, all the 8K, perfect contrast, punch-in-the-face colors are fun to watch — but they also get repetitive and, dare I say, boring. bored. Instead, the one TV that really raised my eyebrows this year — and deserves the limelight in Las Vegas — is the wireless TV from startup Displace.

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You heard that right: A TV doesn’t rely on any dangling cables or wires to power it. Not available. Method for madness? Four hot-swappable batteries that Displace says will give the TV a month of use before it needs to be recharged, WiFi 6E to sync your input from the base unit separately to the TV and what this 6-person company calls Active Loop Vacuum Technology, two strips of adhesive that glue the TV to almost any surface without the need for a stand.

For a demo that took place in a tech-filled room at the Venetian hotel, Displace demonstrated the capabilities of its proprietary mounting system on a fabric-covered wall as well as glass windows. Installation is as simple as pushing a less than 20-pound TV to the surface and letting the adhesive do the rest, all while a vacuum-like sound signals the beginning and end of the process. About how long the screen can be attached to the wall? Displace CEO Balaji Krishnan says the Active Loop Vacuum technology will reinforce itself regularly to keep the TV in place. In other words: forever.

And if the wireless aspect isn’t enough in the future, another important feature of Displace TV is gesture control. Don’t expect the remote to come with this TV. Instead, the device comes with a pop-out camera at the top that detects hand gestures to navigate through channels and even copy and play visual content from one Displace TV to another. This is using the same technology that powers the Xbox Kinect and is popularized by PrimeSense, an Israeli company acquired by Apple.

Basically, imagine you’re pointing at your TV, making a pinch as if you were picking up salt and sprinkling it on another screen. It’s been a magical experience, but I wonder if having a remote will ever be an issue. I also question the reliability of camera-based detection when there are many people in the room. Does celebrating a touchdown end with changing channels or accidentally turning off the TV? That may depend on how well Displace TV’s machine learning is. Krishnan says that Displace will also offer an app to control the TV from your smartphone.

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Displace says the product will release in late 2023 for $2,999 each. That’s a hefty price tag for a 4K TV, let alone a first-generation product. But after talking to the people at Displace, I had a feeling of reassurance, as if the group knew what they wanted to achieve and how to get there slowly. Team members have impressive experience in TV hardware startups and at tech companies like Apple, and enthusiasm can be seen in overhauling today’s TV experience for the better.

They’ve brought a level of creativity and innovation to the TV space that no one expected — and their products are some of the most exciting we’ve seen so far at CES 2023. See how Displace is thinking about how making TVs wireless and able to be quickly moved to different areas of your home can transform the functionality and usability of the display.

For example, these devices can become the devices you use for Zoom calls, and the TV can automatically transfer your Zoom calls from one TV to another when you change rooms. For example, the TV can also recognize what type of room it is and change menus and content selection based on being in the kitchen versus the living room. When you have guests over, you can gather multiple Displace TVs into one room to connect them and create a larger screen for a viewing party.

If you want to buy two or four Displace TVs — setting up multiple consoles is the company’s ultimate goal — Displace will even offer discounts of 10% and 20%, respectively. It’s an early product, but if you’re looking to buy a sample soon, check out Displace’s CES pre-order announcement on January 5, as it looks like the first batch will be a small one and may sell. sold out quickly because of this round of exciting ways of innovating the TV experience.

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