by Dot Cannon
Can it really be over already?
2015 International CES® has zoomed by, with today the final day. It doesn’t seem possible! Here are some of our favorites, from the last few days.
Panasonic’s Future Kitchen is a mind-blower. The cooking space retracts to become counter space, and the oven allows you to check the status of whatever’s inside without opening the door. What we really liked best, though, was the automatic stirrer. In effect, it’s a pot that can be programmed to stir itself when you, the cook, have more important things to do!
In the Panasonic exhibit, there was a huge crowd around this fully-electric car.
It’s powered by thousands of small batteries, and exhibitor Geoff McNab says they’re good for more than two hundred fifty miles before needing to be recharged.
The Intel exhibit features the winners of their 2014 “Make It Wearable” challenge.
Among the exhibitors are the creators of the world’s first flying wearable camera, the Nixie, currently in prototype. Designers Jelena Jovanovic and Christoph Kohstall created the Nixie after missing their chance to photograph their daughter’s first steps.
If you’re an arachnophobe, these wearables may give you a slight chill.
Creator Matt Bunting designed and built these hexapod robots–which are incorporated into this dress.
The dress extends “arms” when a stranger approaches–literally keeping that person at arm’s length if he approaches too closely or quickly.
On the subject of robots…
…These are the world’s smallest programmable robots, called Ozobots. They can maneuver both on paper, with colored markers, and on a computer screen, and can be used to teach kids the basics of programming.
And of course, 3-D printing is something not to be missed. This printer is creating a pair of shoes.
However, there are far more uses for the 3-D printer–including some you may not have imagined.
As with the experience of exploring CES®, one time, and one post, is never enough to do justice to the show–or the creators of all this cool stuff.
You’ll just have to discover some favorites of your own when all this new technology hits the market, later this year.
