The Google Assistant is getting an Amazon Echo Show-style form factor.

After cramming the Google Assistant into smartphones, tablets, laptops, TVs, watches, speakers, and headphones, Google is launching yet another form factor: smart displays.
Remember the Amazon Echo Show? This is the Google Assistant version of that. Why settle for just a voice assistant when you can slap a screen on a "smart speaker" and read some of your query results?

CES 2018 is when Google Assistant smart displays will arrive. No first-party "Google Home Show" has launched yet, but LG, Sony, JBL, and Lenovo are all signed up to produce the devices. Lenovo (and probably others, soon) will show off what the devices are going to probably look like. Google says the devices will arrive "later this year."

Just like with a speaker, you can ask questions of the Google Assistant and get a response. But with a screen attached, you can now see some of the results. According to the video, Google Assistant smart displays can show the time, date, weather, calendar appointments, Google Maps, recipes, Google Photos, YouTube (unlike a certain other smart display), Google Music, Google Duo video calls, and Nest cam video feeds. Google says you can also "get recommendations for your favorite content, right on the home screen." There's no word yet on what the OS is, but when I think "touchscreen OS from Google" a little green robot comes to mind.

Google's blog post is also chock full of other miscellaneous announcements about the Google Assistant, which seems to be all over CES this year:

• More smart speakers are coming from Bang & Olufsen, Braven, iHome, JBL, Jensen, LG, Klipsch, Knit Audio, Memorex, and SōLIS.
• More Android TVs with the Google Assistant are coming from LG, TCL, Skyworth, Xiaomi, Changhong, Element, Funai, Haier, Hisense, and Westinghouse.
• More headphones are coming with the Assistant on-board from Jaybird, JBL, LG, and Sony.
• Android Auto is finally, finally getting Assistant support "starting this week in the US."