Welcome to day two of our CES 2019 liveblog. Tuesday is the first really big day of the show—the day when the expo halls open to the public. While doing the rounds yesterday, we saw a bevy of innovative and funky gadgets. But today is the day the spectacle of CES really kicks into full gear. Walls of televisions. Armies of robots. Miles of lines. Scroll down to see reports from Tuesday at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the newest updates appearing at the top.

Call the Doctor

Step aside, WebMD (and frantic Googling). Tytocare is a telehealth kit with sensors like a camera, otoscope, tongue depressor, and stethoscope to conduct in-home exams. An app guides the worried parent through the exam, lets them enter symptoms, and record a short video to send to a clinician within the Nationwide telehealth network. Response time varies between 10 to 30 minutes. No more taking a day off work to drag your sick kid to a germ-infested waiting room!—Adrienne So

Target Practice

“Why the Nerf guns?” I thought, while exploring some of the latest sensors for autonomous cars. Turns out perceiving a nerf projectile is a viewed as a great test for the abilities of a lidar system, thanks to WIRED’s Alex Davies and his in-house experiments. Here’s Aeye proving the point.—Jack Stewart

Aww, Bots!

Meet the cute Samsung Bots. These robots are designed to be companions to people to help from everything from tracking sleep, taking your medication to calling 911 if you fall. While Samsung has designed them with features that anyone could use—it plays music, dances with you and can give you a daily rundown of what you have for the day—the company has focused it more on having it be with a family member who may need some extra care. Medical professional and family can program the robot remotely with exercises, reminders to take medication and even take blood pressure and heart rate. So watch out nurses, this blinking robot may be your next competitor.—Meghann Farnsworth

Flex Zone

For years, smartphones have been big slabs of glass—but the future is flexible. Chinese maker Royole is one fo the first companies with a fully bendable AMOLED smartphone, called the FlexPai. It starts as an 8-inch tablet of sorts, and works pretty well, but if you fold it back like a piece of paper, you can use it as a phone.

The screens on the front and back work like any Android phone (mostly), and Royole has chosen to put some notifications and other features on the bendy part. The models I tried were already a bit beat up from the hoard of greasy CES hands that have been folding them all day, and the interface had some had some trouble quickly transitioning between screens, depending how you hold it, but the idea here is fun. Royole says it will try to launch the phone in Europe and the United States this year, though it’s easier said than done for a manufacturer new to the country. Either way, flexible AMOLED displays are finally getting more real, and that’s exciting.—Jeffrey Van Camp

Rain or Shine

At the intersection of weather and AI sits IBM, which at CES announced that it would use crowdsourced sensor data and in-flight readings from aircraft to create the most accurate forecasts yet. The gains should apply especially to currently underserved areas, where weather models can take up to 12 hours to update and cover as much as 10 square miles of ground. By contrast, IBM’s Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System will use supercomputer data-crunching to give hourly updates to areas that span less than two square miles. The timing is auspicious; the IBM-owned Weather Company faces a lawsuit for allegedly sharing user location data with advertisers. But for people who live in remote locations without reliable weather information, it could be a boon.—Brian Barrett

Throwing Shades

Amy Lombard

What does a former Magic Leap engineer do after he’s left the company? Produce a competing pair of AR glasses, natch. (And ship it a lot more quickly.) Nreal is a Beijing-based company that showed off its new pair of lightweight AR glasses last night. The colorful shades have a top-down projection system that’s built into the bridge of the nose. The display has a 52-degree field of view and the projected graphics are surprisingly crisp. The imagery is also volumetric, not just a 2D, “flat” overlay projected into space. And of course: Nreal works with an Android-based hip pack, which powers the graphics.

Nreal CEO Chi Xu, the former Magic Leap engineer, declined to share how exactly much these glasses will cost when they ship in the third quarter of this year, but he likened the probable price point to that of a high-end smartphone. Xu also said he believes that in general, AR glasses will be “much more promising compared to virtual reality. It’s the same benefits of VR, without losing control of your life.”—Lauren Goode

Follow Along

¿Lo Entiendes?

Google

Google is trying to outsource another human-to-human interaction to its AI-powered Assistant: the kind that occurs between a person who works in hospitality and a guest who speaks a different language. A new feature in Google Assistant, called Interpreter Mode, turns the virtual assistant into a real-time language translator between two people who are trying to chat in the same physical space. It starts rolling out today on Google-powered smart displays and smart speakers.

I saw a demo here in Las Vegas. A concierge at Caesar’s Palace, one of the early beta testers of the feature, was approached by a German “tourist” (really, a German-speaking Google employee) and asked about show tickets. The concierge turned to a Google Home Hub and, using voice, prompted the Assistant to go into German interpreter mode. The concierge and guest had a back-and-forth conversation, with the Assistant translating, and tickets were procured. Read the full story.—Lauren Goode

Beat Reporter

Amy Lombard

EKG biometrics company B-Secur just announced the launch of HeartKey, its suite of identification and wellness algorithms. One of the more interesting applications is a steering wheel technology, which could be used to detect when drivers are too tired or stressed out to be on the road and warn them to take a rest.—Adrienne So

Gas Gauge

Amy Lombard

Weight loss can be frustrating, especially since a menu that got results one week might not work the next. The Lumen is a small device that you breathe into every morning. It measures your metabolic fuel usage after yesterday’s meals, sleep, and activities, and gives you recommendations for meals and snacks. Have doubts? Multiple validation studies, including one at San Francisco State University, have verified Lumen’s method. If you preorder on Indiegogo, you’ll be able to try it for yourself by mid-2019.—Adrienne So

Stream Dream

Vizio is showing off a lot of televisions at CES this year, as expected. The displays look lovely but I really like that they’re also compatible with Google Home, Alexa, and Apple AirPlay 2. All three methods of tossing content to the set appear to work as expected, which makes Vizio one of the most flexible TVs for cord cutters.—Jeffrey Van Camp

Punching Up

Ride On

Amy Lombard

We’ve seen a lot of products aimed at the differently-abled, but none were more surprising than the Onewheel. Their latest iteration, with updated Gemini firmware, allows users to customize their ride completely. At a press preview, we met Derrick Ross, who got his updated Onewheel XR+ through the Adaptive Training Foundation (ATF). Derrick lost his leg during a roadside bombing in Afghanistan and now rides a Onewheel to help him maneuver, pain-free, through his house; barrel down massive mountains; and recapture some of the freedom and exhilaration of movement that he had before he was injured.—Adrienne So

Feel the Burn

Toying Around

Amy Lombard

There are plenty of toys that purport to teach younger children to code with markers, cubes or blocks. But the Hack computer is aimed at entertaining and educating the older and more sophisticated tween set. It’s a safe, ad-free, virus-resistant, and most importantly, real ASUS laptop that uses the Linux-based Endless Operating System to let kids learn about coding in a playful and friendly way, with a subscription service that gives kids access to colorful, hackable games and stories.—