CES 2024 Day 1 recap: Samsung and Sony dominated, as did chips and laptops

The first unofficial day of CES 2024 has come and gone and it feels like we've been run over by a giant metaphorical eighteen-wheeler full of press conferences. From home robots to electric vehicles to AI, laptops and processors, there was news from pretty much all areas of tech. There were pleasant surprises like Samsung's cute new Ballie robot ball and Sony's spatial content creation headset, and intriguing concepts like Razer's vibrating cushion for gamers. We also got exactly what we expected in the form of new processors from the likes of AMD, Intel and NVIDIA, as well as the subsequent flood of laptops carrying the just-announced chips for 2024. And for everyone else, this CES also saw the launch of things like headphones, electric vehicles, gaming handhelds, grills, gaming phones, e-ink tablets, strange hybrid devices, noise-suppressing masks, standing desks and more.