CES 2016 pre-announcements

CES 2016 is happening later this week (January 6th-9th). Tomorrow is an exclusive CES Press Day but companies want to get ahead of the curve so many made their announcements today.

Here are some of the headlines that have come across my desk:

Got a Startup to Get People Moving? Ford-Backed Techstars Mobility, Driven by Detroit Providing Funding, Training

Ford Targets Drone-to-Vehicle Technology to Improve Emergency Services, Commercial Business Efficiency

Ford Tripling Autonomous Vehicle Development Fleet, Accelerating On-Road Testing of Sensors and Software

Smart Cars Meet Smart Homes: Ford Exploring SYNC Integration with Amazon Echo and Alexa, Wink

Samsung Electronics Receives UHD Alliance Premium Certification for its 2016 SUHD TVs

Samsung Electronics Introduces New Smart TV User Experience

Samsung Electronics Announces Portable SSD T3 for Fast, Dependable External Content Storage and Transfer Across Devices

Lenovo™ Launches YOGA 900S as World’s Thinnest Convertible Laptop

Lenovo Unveils Pioneering Modular ThinkPad X1 Tablet

Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow

SiBEAM Introduces USB 3.0 802.11ad Reference Design Delivering Wireless Connectivity at Multi-Gigabit Speeds

UHD Alliance Defines Premium Home Entertainment Experience

IoT Will Drive Consumer Tech Industry to $287 Billion in Revenues, an All-Time High, According to Consumer Technology Association

NVIDIA Accelerates Race to Autonomous Driving at CES

Automotive Innovators Motoring to NVIDIA DRIVE

Toyota to Announce New Details of Artificial Intelligence Research at Consumer Electronics Show

Faraday demonstrates FFZERO1 concept vehicle

Roku Plans for Continued Roku TV Expansion in 2016; Announces Roku TV HDR Reference Design

Parrot announces new Disco drone, ditches quadrocopter design for wings

BoomCloud 360™ Breaks the Sound Barrier with The BoomStick

Petnet Introduces The World’s First Smart Pet Bowl

NAGRA Introduces intuiTV, a New Way of Enjoying TV, at CES 2016

QD Vision Named as CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree for its Color IQ™ Quantum Dot Optic