The 2024 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, was a playground for tech enthusiasts, bustling with futuristic technology. From flexible smartphones to augmented reality devices, the world’s largest mobile show did not disappoint.
Among the dazzling array of innovative technologies, Motorola’s “adaptive display concept” smartphone stood out. This groundbreaking device, demonstrated by Lenovo-owned Motorola, can bend along a spine-like hinge, enabling it to wrap effortlessly around a user’s wrist. Ingeniously, its interface reacts to how it is bent, and even goes to the length of matching its background with your attire.
Computing giant Lenovo offered a tantalising glimpse into the future with their see-through laptop concept, another standout in the parade of tech marvels on display. On the other hand, Chinese brand Tecno introduced its Phantom Ultimate – a phone that literally unfolds, expanding its screen size with the push of a button.
In a nod to the wearable tech trend, a small AI-powered device by a company named Humane premiered. Known as the AI Pin, this nifty gadget fastens to clothing and interacts verbally with its wearer, even snapping pictures. Its pièce de résistance is a laser projector beaming a menu directly onto the user’s hand, navigated with simple hand movements.
Augmented reality was another recurring theme of the show, with leading Chinese brand Oppo unveiling its prototype AR glasses embedded with voice assistant functionality. Tecno also displayed an extraordinary gadget combining AR glasses with a video game controller, enabling users to play games on a larger screen by simply donning glasses.
Chinese tech titan Xiaomi, renowned for celebrating its smartphones’ photography prowess, stepped further into the world of professional photography by offering a kit that transforms its mighty Xiaomi 14 smartphone into a bona fide DSLR camera.
Samsung forayed into the smart ring business with the Galaxy Ring, capable of monitoring heart rates and sleep patterns, promising comprehensive health insights in alignment with a Samsung phone and smartwatch.
Chinese firm Tecno introduced a robot dog named the Tecno Dynamic 1, engaging with audiences through dance sequences and interactions like shaking hands. Xiaomi also joined the robot dog race, matching Tecno’s reveal.
Xiaomi made one more significant reveal – its first electric vehicle, the SU7, marking Xiaomi’s desired entry into the increasingly crowded EV market. Although it is not yet available for purchase, the SU7 was Xiaomi’s showpiece at MWC.
In conclusion, MWC 2024 presented an astonishing array of future-oriented tech, from groundbreaking screen technologies to forays into AR and EVs.
Vocabulary List:
- Adaptive (adjective): Able to adjust to different conditions or environments.
- Hinge (noun): A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting or bending of two connected parts.
- Ingeniously (adverb): In a clever or creative manner.
- Pièce de résistance (noun): The most important or outstanding feature.
- Foray (noun): A sudden and brief invasion or entry into unfamiliar territory.
- See-through (adjective): Transparent or allowing light to pass throughso that objects behind can be distinctly seen.
