The world’s biggest tech event – CES – is returning to full operation this week after two years scaled down due to the COVID pandemic.
Before the show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Centre has even officially opened, huge Silicon Valley conglomerates and ambitious start-ups alike are already living up to the conference’s reputation for showcasing the great and the good – and the just plain weird – of consumer electronics.
Here are some of the product announcements that have caught our eye so far – for all sorts of reasons…
Ring in the new year
The Evie ring is pitched as the first medical grade smart ring designed uniquely for women, offering period and menstrual symptom tracking alongside familiar wearable features like monitoring heart rate and calories burned.
Like other wearables, data is displayed in a smartphone app, and its creator – Movano Health – says it will cost less than $300 (£248) when it releases later this year.
Livestream your cooking
A strong contender for the most ridiculously named product of the show is Samsung’s Bespoke AI Wall Oven, which comes equipped with an internal camera, so you can keep a closer eye on your cooking.
But Samsung also reckons it is perfect for taking photos and even livestreaming your meals to social media, allowing those with more money than they know what to do with to launch their own cooking show from home.
Samsung’s Bespoke AI Oven has an internal camera
Hug this pulsating cushion
If you need to wind down after a stressful day of work, Fufuly could be just what you need.
Shaped like a cloud, tooth or deformed marshmallow (take your pick), Japanese firm Yukai Engineering says the pulsating cushion aims to reduce anxiety in the same way holding a baby or having a cat on your lap might do.
Fufuly,…
