Digital Trends’ Top Tech of CES 2024 Awards

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It’s hard to explain the feeling and energy surrounding CES. There are fresh ideas and new products everywhere you turn. With so much happening, and thousands of companies competing for attention, manufacturers have to do something really intriguing to have any chance of standing out. But it’s possible – every year we recognize a group of products that are truly compelling and will help move the industry forward.

These are our Top Tech of CES 2024 awards, recognizing the best and most innovative announcements at the show.

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LG Signature OLED T

While LG Display has been showing off its transparent OLED screens for several years, it wasn’t until 2024 that its sister company, LG Electronics, figured out how to turn it into a functional TV. We think it was worth the wait.

At first blush, the LG Signature OLED T looks like it might be a huge marine aquarium. But at the press of one button, its clear screen lights up like a display out of sci-fi movie. Press another button, and a black film rolls up from the TV’s hidden base, giving the transparent panel an opaque background and making it look like any other LG OLED television.

The genius is in the simplicity of LG’s solution, taking what was once a purely commercial technology and transforming it into a home entertainment showpiece. Whether it’s something you’ll be able to afford anytime soon is still unknown, but it’s transformative consumer tech nonetheless.

Samsung S95D QD-OLED

Samsung’s top-tier QD-OLED model already was one of the must-have TVs among premium displays, but two improvements to the S95D announced at CES 2024 make it even more desirable than before.

First, all of Samsung’s QD-OLED TVs benefit from new, brighter panels developed by Samsung Display, including the S95D. Second, and more important to those actually