CES delivers some real winners each year, but it also has a rich history as a breeding ground for weird technologies.
In years past, the show has yielded peculiarities such as cell phone radiation-blocking underwear, a waistline-monitoring smart belt, and a vending machine for fresh loaves of bread. It s hard to forget Charmin s 2020 RollBot, a robot that can bring you a spare roll of toilet paper when you run out (strangely foreshadowing the great TP shortage that came just months later).
Despite being all-digital this year due to the coronavirus, CES 2021 offered no shortage of oddities. On the list of strange new innovations is a poop-analyzing toilet that offers dietary advice, smart perfume you can customize from an app, and a headless robotic pet meant to soothe your angst. And it only gets weirder from there.
Friday 15 January 2021
CES 2021 may be absent the blinding lights of the sun and slots of Las Vegas, Nevada this year but the digital event is still awash with tech goodness (and some tech badness). The WIRED Gear team has searched high and low to bring you all the most interesting products, from Dell’s video conferencing monitors that are depressingly 2021 to eye-catching new TVs from Samsung and LG.
It’s not all about the traditional tech at CES though, with the annual event presenting some questionable gadgets including smart toilets, smart lipsticks, smart salad growers, smart baths. In short, more