CES 2018 : Cool Gadgets & Useful for Steemians?

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Olie Smart Lamp


Smart gadgets are all the rage at CES. Olie capitalizes on this by being able to respond to commands via Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant so you can turn it on or off with your voice. The lamp also doubles as a wireless charging station for your smartphone–something hand if you have it as your bedside lamp.

 

Dimensioning Device


From the makers of the Olie smart lamp, mentioned above, comes the 01. This device looks like a stylus and gives you the measurements of objects in the real world. It can easily measure things like a person’s height. But it also allows you to measure thing in three dimensions–height, length, and width–to give you an overall surface measurement. Data is stored in the device and then sent to your smartphone where you can log it for future reference.

LG CLOi

LG is releasing three new CLOi robots (pronounced KLOH-ee).

They have been designed for the use in hotel, supermarkets as well as in the airports. The robots can be utilized as waiter, check-in and check-out trolley and shopping cart robot.

LG CLOi

TeslaSuit VR

New virtual reality outfit from TeslaSuit provides full body AR experience, which can simulate sensory inputs such as hot or cold, as well as stimulating nerves and muscles for gun recoil. It can also create shocking feels mimicking wounds and damage (to the user).

TeslaSuit

Neutrogena Skin Scanner

The gadget attaches to your smartphone to give detailed before and after pictures of your skin condition.

Neutrogena Skin Scanner

LifeFuels Smart Bottle

With LifeFuels, your nutrition levels is automatically being tracked and nutritients (and minerals) will be added to you drink.

LifeFuels

Dreem Sleep Headband

Dreem Sleep headband is more than a sleep tracker, it learns your sleeping patterns to offer quicker ways to fall into a deeper sleep.

Startup product from French, Dreem Sleep initiatives breathing and calming exercise to get users to sleep faster, by using sound signals to maintain deep sleep and slowly wakes up users at the optimum time.

Dreem sleep headband

HiMirror with Alexa

HiMirror is a smart mirror linked to Amazon Alexa, which analyses users' skin and track changes of skins, It acts as a virtual beauty assistant and gives makeup tutorials.

HiMirror

Acer 65-inch gaming monitor

Acer has announced its massive 65-inch Predator gaming monitor. With staggering 4k quality, built for gaming and comes with built-in Nvidia's Shield TV hardware.

Acer gaming monitor

Fun Puppy suitcase

Smart suitcase are one of the hottest product at CES this year. This suitcase was inspired by Segway, and design to follow its owner around the airport.

Fun Puppy

CX-1 suitcase

CX-1 suitcase is from ForwardX, it is (another) self driving suitcase which has features such as smart navigation, anti-theft systems and facial recognition.

CX-1 robot suitcase

Petcube camera

Petcube camera comes with pet voice calls, where users can "accept or reject" a video of their pet when it comes into view of the camera. The device even comes with "pet selfies" features for dog or cat.

PetCube pet selfies

Petrics smart pet bed

This smart bed can analyse your pet's sleeping patterns and weight for a healthier and happier pet.

Petrics smart pet bed

Omni smart helmet

This piece of cycling kit from Coros offers clever earpiece-free speakers. The sound enter you ears via vibrations from the helmet strap using bone conduction audio. This leaves the ears free from surrounding traffic.

This device also connects to smartphone for hand-free calls as well as for navigation.

Coros cycling helmet

Acer Swift 7

Acer swift 7 is one of the spot-light laptop display at CES. It is the world's thinnest laptop with 8.98 mm thick.

Acer Swift 7

XioaYi pocket translator

iFLYTEK's XioaYi pocket translator is displayed during CES Unveiled at CES International in Las Vegas.

Digital eyewear for visually impaired people

Not all the claims being made at CES will stand up to scrutiny, ICI Vision contributed something meaningful and useful for needed-person.

The Israel's ICI Vision is in town to promote a pair of prototype glasses designed to tackle blind spots caused by retinal diseases.

It combines with small cameras, eye-tracking software and projection tech to direct views onto the healthy parts of the back of a patient's eye.

ICI Vision glasses

Samsung's Relumino glasses

Samsung is taking a different approach to visual impairments with Relumino - glasses that use a smartphone to process the wearer's view.

A special designed app adds contrast, draws outlines and makes other colour changes to the view to make it clearer before floating the altered image into the eyewear's display.

Relumino glasses

SurV

The SurV has been developed by a Los Angeles-based start-up to help investigate disturbances.

There's also a model with a video screen designed to be used by desk-bound security guards, and a drone that's been engineered to fly around warehouses scanning the shelves to check the inventory.

But perhaps the award for most novel use of a quadcopter should go to SwellPro's Splash Drone 3.

It is designed to help fishing expeditions catch tuna, sharks and other large sea life by dropping bait from above.

SurV drone

Qualcomm

Qualcomm says a laptop battery can provide nearly a day's use if one of its chips powers the PC.

Meanwhile, Intel will be promoting the virtue of new processor modules that integrate AMD's graphics hardware, which it hopes will prove attractive to gamers.

When it comes to handsets, there are rumours that Samsung might unveil a Galaxy X model with a foldable display.

But if that fails to make an appearance, there will still be a new phone from China's Vivo that carries out fingerprint scans by getting its users to tap the display.

Windows on Snapdragon

The ShapeScale

The ShapeScale promises to complete each full-body scan in under a minute.

  • Shapescale - weight scales that also provide 3D body scans so you can see how exercise changes your shape over time
  • D Free - a sensor system that claims to be able to anticipate when elderly patients are likely to want to go to the toilet, so that their carers can get them there in time
  • Biowatch - a vein-reading module for smartwatches straps that identifies the wearer and avoids them having to type in a password code
  • Emojime - headphones fitted with a brainwave scanner that animate emoji symbols on their outside to illustrate the wearer's moodShapeScale
 

Sources:

http://www.news18.com/photogallery/tech/ces-2018-consumer-electronics-show-2018-in-las-vegas-1625895-15.html

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/901937/CES-2018-pictures-best-gadgets-tech-announcements-Las-Vegas-photos-pics

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42574569

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