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If youre off-roading, its a neat idea to use your engine to top up your battery, which prompted Bluetti to launch the Charger. You could hook it to your alternator and draw off energy as you drove to make sure you turned up to your campsite with full batteries. But if youre also toting around solar panels on your roof, then its a shame you cant also use that power to top up. This omission is what prompted Bluetti to turn up to CES 2026 with the Charger 2, which will take power from your engine and your solar panels at the same time. Bluetti says the Charger 2s dual-input architecture will accept 600W from the panels, 800W from the engine. All of that power will charge your batteries significantly faster than the first model, claiming its 13 times faster than a standard car charger. In addition, Charger 2 can manage more than one Bluetti power station and expansion batteries, should your power needs stretch. And the system is smart enough to know where the energy is coming from, managing the sources based on their availability. Plus, you can use it to jump start your engine should you need the help. If youre a Charger 1 owner and want to upgrade, its fairly painless to drop the old unit out in favor of its replacement. It uses the same cabling, so you can just hook the new model to your existing wires without having to get your fingers greasy. To reward that loyalty, the company will sell you an upgrade for $99, at least through February 7. As for everyone else, youll be able to pick up the Charger 2 for $349 through February 7, at which point the price leaps to $499. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/bluettis-charger-2-uses-solar-and-engine-power-to-charge-your-portable-battery-230000270.html?src=rss
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CES 2026: A rocky year ahead of the PC industryWe're halfway through CES 2026, and its clear that it's going to be a rough year for the PC industry. In this episode, Devindra chats with Engadget's Dan Cooper about Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and the sad state of the PC industry. We've got some new CPUs, but the volatile RAM market will likely make everything expensive this year. Also, they dive into Dell's revival of the XPS brand, as well as iPolish's smart nails and Subtle's AI-powered VoiceBuds.Subscribe!iTunesSpotifyPocket CastsStitcherGoogle PodcastsTopicsThe state of the PC industry in 2026 -- 02:22Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 chips -- 12:41Dell's XPS lineup is back -- 17:41Our favorite products from CES: 26:36CreditsHosts: Devindra Hardawar and Dan CooperProducer: Devindra HardawarMusic: Dale NorthThis article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/engadget-podcast-ces-2026-and-the-rocky-year-ahead-for-the-pc-industry-221500019.html?src=rss
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Samsung Display is the part of its giant parent company that makes OLEDs, LCDs and other screens for both Samsung devices and anyone else that can afford them. This year, its going all-in on OLEDs of the future. And that meant things like foldable displays with invisible creases, robots hurling basketballs at supertough OLED panels, and OLED screens packed into baffling form factors for no good reason. Creases Samsung Display The seamless foldable display that might be a part of a future foldable iPhone disappeared from the booth during our tour, reappearing when it was time to leave. (This is an image provided by Samsung Display.) The device was labelled as an R&D concept, but it somehow disguised the crease in the center of the main display, making the (unlabelled) Galaxy Z Fold on the left look like a messy first-iteration foldable. There's still a crease there Will it actually form part of Apples foray into foldables, or just part of the Z Fold 8? Why not both? Put an OLED on it Mat Smith for Engadget This isnt a record player youll ever buy. You dont need an OLED display on the side of your wireless headphones, but you could have them. I liked the cute OLED pendants; a customizable near-future button badge, but a lot of this is just devices for the sake of making them. The booth tour had a small segment dedicated to portable gaming OLED, adding more possibilities whether thats an eye-sight for FPS games or extra HUD for the most important info. The worlds brightest OLED TV Mat Smith for Engadget Reaching 4,500-nit brightness, I had to squint when sat in front of this beastly OLED. For reference, consumer-level TVs typically peak at around 2,700 nits. Compared to other display technologies, OLED can achieve deeper contrast and more accurate color reproduction, but it often lacks the brightness of rival TV technologies. Not for this prototype. Let me get my sunglasses. Kobe! Mat Smith for Engadget I didnt consider OLED displays to be more fragile than other display technology, but that didnt stop Samsung Display from installing a robot arm that throws a basketball at a hoop with a backboard made of 18 foldable OLEDs. With a bang, making Samsung Display execs and engineers nearby increasingly anxious as the days of CES go on. Foldables have come a long way Mat Smith for Engadget After Samsung finally solved the problem of weight and thickness with the Galaxy Z Fold 7, it made life hard for itself again with the TriFold, with 50 percent more foldable screen. But it's worth seeing how Samsungs foldables have evolved over the past few years. A solid reminder that the first Galaxy Fold (2019) was beefy. The next big thing in gaming displays Mat Smith for Engadget Samsung Display has begun mass production of its 360Hz QD-OLED panel, with new V-Stripe RGB pixel structures. Inside each pixel, subpixels are vertically aligned, which appears to improve the clarity of text edges and other small contrast objects. While it was framed at the booth as a boon for office workers, a corner was dedicated to gaming applications. Screens across your sedan Mat Smith for Engadget Digital cockpits are the lifeblood of a CES showfloor, and Samsung Displays version is predictably loaded with yet more OLEDs. The centerpiece is a Flexible L display that flows into the dashboard. A dedicated 13.8-inch display on the passenger side also slides out of the dash.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/home/home-theater/samsung-display-ces-2026-playful-demos-and-mysterious-prototypes-220407696.html?src=rss
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