A New Year
means one thing in the realm of latest
technology gadgets — a trek to Las Vegas for CES. It's the enormous consumer
electronics demonstrate packed with nearly 50-football fields worth of gleaming
new tech toys.
Somewhere
inside the cavernous convention center crowded with TV's we can't manage,
concept autos we'll never drive, and inept "shrewd" things we'll
never use there's dependably a modest bunch of new technology gadgets 2018 that really can make it big of item
perfection.
That is the
thing that I set out to discover early-on here in Las Vegas. Here are my
favorites up until now.
Something new under the sun
The smallest
new wearable I've ever seen could likewise be one of the smartest when it comes
to protecting your skin. In any case, the diminutive dab packs enough techs to
give you UV, pollen, mugginess, temperature, and air quality levels. It uses
NFC to combine with an application on your Smartphone and can give you
reminders to put on more sunscreen or remain out of the sun altogether.
The Lenovo
Smart Display with Google Assistant could be to the next-generation shrewd home
what the iPhones were to smart phones. It's a tabletop shrewd screen that goes
about as a touch screen tablet, virtual personal associate and keen home center
point. With a gorgeous upscale design, it's likewise pretty enough to keep on a
countertop in your kitchen or perched on a bedside table.
You can set
it up to state, "Hey Google," and begin a routine: Turn on the
lights, get the coffee brewing, read your day by day schedule, give you
activity and weather reports, wake the children, and remind you to feed the
pooch. You can likewise use it to video-call your mother, or watch the morning
news while you eat breakfast.
In the event
that this all sounds like stuff you would already be able to do with an
existing connected home device like the Amazon Echo Show that is because it
sort of is, except that the Lenovo Smart Display does it better, faster, and is
a whole part easier to use in general. It likewise has two extra features to
address security concerns. You can mute the speaker, so it's not listening for
its wakeup word, and flip a change to cover the camera (versus the DIY method
of putting tape over it).
E-merging reality
When Merge
VR first showed me their new plastic Nerf-like toy weapon that sets with an
iPhone application to play games, I thought, so what? Then I played with it. It
is absolutely awesome. Called the Merge 6DoF Blaster, you slide an iPhone into
a holder, fire up the application and simply like that, you're doing combating
blaster-yielding space aliens. It's VR, with no VR glasses or goggles! In this
way, when the aliens shoot at you, you have to hide behind dividers and duck
under tables to dodge their laser beams.
