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Tech Shown at CES 2016 Couples Will LoveThese 15 products are some of our favorite shown at CES 2016.
Photo courtesy of Immersit; All other images courtesy of companies
The Immersit demonstrating how it will tilt the couch during viewing.
“ Watch Iron Man jet around a building and your couch will pitch in the same direction.”
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The largest consumer electronics show in the world recently wrapped up and we were there to hunt down the most interesting and helpful technology that will improve your life and make it more enjoyable in the near and distant future. The following is a list of some—and we do mean some, since there were over 3,800 exhibitors—of our favorite items shown at CES 2016.
Withings Thermo
Company: Withings
What Is it: A contactless thermometer that provides accurate results in just 2 seconds.
Why We Love It: Point the contactless thermometer at the temporal artery and 16 independent infrared sensors takes 4,000 separate measurements and delivers a quick and accurate reading. An algorithm automatically corrects for things like skin heat loss and the ambient temperature.
Immersit
Company: Immersit
What Is it: A device that turns your couch (chair or bed) into a dynamic piece of furniture that responds to the movies and games on your TV.
Why We Love It: Definitely the funnest tech we experienced at the show. Place it under the feet of your furniture and it will listen to what's happening—kind of like Shazam—and automatically respond with pitches, rolls and heaves that turn your viewing or playing experience into an amusement park-like entertainment immersion. Accelerate the car in your video game and it will tilt back and pin you in your seat. Watch Iron Man jet around a building and your couch will pitch in the same direction. An app also lets you control the intensity of the movement.
Somabar
Company: Somabar
What Is it: A robotic bartender. You select a drink from the connected app, which offers recipes based on the ingredients you have, click a button and this robo-mixologists will mix and pour the perfect drink in seconds.
Why We Love It: Unlike other drink machines that require disposable proprietary pods, Soma Pods are to be filled and reused with the ingredients of your choice—plus they are BPA-free and dishwasher safe. Moreover, the app offers a simple, clean design that makes it all but impossible to make a bad drink.
Gluten Free Bread Machine
Company: Panasonic
What Is it: A bread machine with specific functionality to bake gluten free bread.
Why We Love It: Making a great tasting gluten-free bread with a pleasant texture has become something of an advanced course in culinary science. Fortunately, this bread machine from Panasonic has a setting that adjusts the time and temperature so everyone can now enjoy fresh homemade bread, regardless of their dietary restrictions.
Lovelife krush
Company: OhMiBod
What Is it: A Kegel exerciser and app, called TASL, that uses haptic feedback (visual and vibratory) to help women monitor and strengthen their pelvic floor (PC) muscles. The Lovelife krush has built-in sensors and connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth.
Why We Love It: PC muscles often weaken in mothers after childbirth. This can cause incontinence and other problems. This exerciser will help moms get their strength back through voice-guided training programs offering measurable feedback. Strong PC muscles offer other benefits as well, such as more intense orgasms.
SmartyPan
Company: SmartyPans
What Is it: A smart pan that measures the weight of the ingredients in real-time, along with the temperature, to help cook the perfect meal every time.
Why We Love It: The pan is just half the innovation. The vessel also contains a microcontroller that talks to an app. This app allows you to tell it the ingredients you're adding into the pan so that it can accurately track nutritional information, among other things. The pan is also detachable from the handle making it oven- and dishwasher safe.
SmartShaker 2
Company: iLuv
What Is it: A vibrating disc that will shake you awake without disturbing your spouse.
Why We Love It: This is the second iteration of the SmartShaker, which aside from multiple vibrating levels also includes different tones, music, and voice recordings. The newest version also allows the disc to pair with other smart devices and trigger multiple functions to help a person wake up, such as having the lights turn on when the vibrating starts.
Nima Sensor
Company: 6SensorLabs
What Is it: A portable gluten sensor that allows you to test food when you're away from home.
Why We Love It: Put a piece of food (liquid or solid) into a one-time use capsule and within two minutes the sensor will measure if there's 20ppm or more of gluten in the food with a 99.5% accuracy. A smiley face on the device will let you know it's safe. In addition, a connected app will keep track of the food you tested along with food tested by the Nima community.
CUJO
Company: CUJO LLC
What Is it: CUJO monitors all the devices that are connected to your network to prevent hacks, viruses, malware and virtual intrusions—this includes all the new smart devices you might be installing.
Why We Love It: More devices in the home are getting connected everyday, from doorbells to thermostats, and with CUJO all those devices can be easily protected by simply plugging this device into your router. A friendly design and simple user-interface helps eliminate the stress of protecting your connected home.
Kwikset Premis
Company: Kwikset
What Is it: A smart deadbolt that offers remote access and works with Apple's HomeKit.
Why We Love It: Working with HomeKit means the deadbolt can now be incorporated into a "scene," i.e., tell Siri to "Go to Sleep" and it will turn off your lights, drop the room temperature, and lock your door with this single command. The Premis keypad can also recognize up to 30 unique user codes for guests who are watching your home while you're away.
Closet Depth Washer and Dryer
Company: Whirlpool
What Is it: A washer and dryer pair that offers fresh efficiencies making it easier to place these in areas of the home that aren't dedicated laundry rooms.
Why We Love It: Since storage space matters, families will appreciate that 12 loads of laundry detergent can be pre-loaded into the washer. Whirlpool also demonstrated their HybridCare Heat Pump dryer process, which is a ventless dryer system, opening up new locations where the dryer can be placed in a home. Lastly, the All-In-One Care system lets families put a load in the washer during bedtime and wake-up with the clothes washed and dried because the system will execute both processes without requiring the clothes to be transferred to the other machine.
Sengled Pulse
Company: Sengled
What Is it: An LED lightbulb with an integrated, wireless JBL speaker.
Why We Love It: Bluetooth technology lets a solo bulb act as a master connecting with up to seven satellite bulbs. The speaker provides great sound throughout the room without having to drop wires behind the walls. The adjustable lights can be controlled through a simple smartphone app on iOS and Android devices.
NanoLeaf Smarter Kit
Company: NanoLeaf
What Is it: The lighting kit comes with the world's most energy efficient bulb, The Smart Ivy; and The Smart Hub, a HomeKit-enabled control center.
Why We Love It: Besides from being super stylish with crazy energy efficiency, the bulb is also HomeKit compliant and future-proofed by working on the Zigbee communication protocol—allowing it to work with other platforms as well. This means while you're in bed you can use the app to turn off the lights in the kitchen. Did we mention that these bulbs can last up to 30 years!
OrCam
Company: OrCam
What Is it: A wearable virtual personal assistant—think Siri with eyes and ears.
Why We Love It: Clip this little device onto your shirt and it will receive video and audio and then perform complex AI tasks to make that information useful. For example, it could inform you of the people you're meeting or discourage you from eating that burger because it knows you're looking at a burger when you've already told it you're trying to cut back.
GlamFit
Company: GlamFit Jewelry
What Is it: Stylish fitness tracker that's designed to be worn outside of the gym.
Why We Love It: You shouldn't have to make a trade-off between looking good and tracking your basic activity. GlamFit Jewelry offers bracelets, necklaces and pendants. These can track your distance, calories burned and steps taken; along with measuring sleep patterns.
Withings Thermo
Company: Withings
What Is it: A contactless thermometer that provides accurate results in just 2 seconds.
Why We Love It: Point the contactless thermometer at the temporal artery and 16 independent infrared sensors takes 4,000 separate measurements and delivers a quick and accurate reading. An algorithm automatically corrects for things like skin heat loss and the ambient temperature.
Immersit
Company: Immersit
What Is it: A device that turns your couch (chair or bed) into a dynamic piece of furniture that responds to the movies and games on your TV.
Why We Love It: Definitely the funnest tech we experienced at the show. Place it under the feet of your furniture and it will listen to what's happening—kind of like Shazam—and automatically respond with pitches, rolls and heaves that turn your viewing or playing experience into an amusement park-like entertainment immersion. Accelerate the car in your video game and it will tilt back and pin you in your seat. Watch Iron Man jet around a building and your couch will pitch in the same direction. An app also lets you control the intensity of the movement.
Somabar
Company: Somabar
What Is it: A robotic bartender. You select a drink from the connected app, which offers recipes based on the ingredients you have, click a button and this robo-mixologists will mix and pour the perfect drink in seconds.
Why We Love It: Unlike other drink machines that require disposable proprietary pods, Soma Pods are to be filled and reused with the ingredients of your choice—plus they are BPA-free and dishwasher safe. Moreover, the app offers a simple, clean design that makes it all but impossible to make a bad drink.
Gluten Free Bread Machine
Company: Panasonic
What Is it: A bread machine with specific functionality to bake gluten free bread.
Why We Love It: Making a great tasting gluten-free bread with a pleasant texture has become something of an advanced course in culinary science. Fortunately, this bread machine from Panasonic has a setting that adjusts the time and temperature so everyone can now enjoy fresh homemade bread, regardless of their dietary restrictions.
Lovelife krush
Company: OhMiBod
What Is it: A Kegel exerciser and app, called TASL, that uses haptic feedback (visual and vibratory) to help women monitor and strengthen their pelvic floor (PC) muscles. The Lovelife krush has built-in sensors and connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth.
Why We Love It: PC muscles often weaken in mothers after childbirth. This can cause incontinence and other problems. This exerciser will help moms get their strength back through voice-guided training programs offering measurable feedback. Strong PC muscles offer other benefits as well, such as more intense orgasms.
SmartyPan
Company: SmartyPans
What Is it: A smart pan that measures the weight of the ingredients in real-time, along with the temperature, to help cook the perfect meal every time.
Why We Love It: The pan is just half the innovation. The vessel also contains a microcontroller that talks to an app. This app allows you to tell it the ingredients you're adding into the pan so that it can accurately track nutritional information, among other things. The pan is also detachable from the handle making it oven- and dishwasher safe.
SmartShaker 2
Company: iLuv
What Is it: A vibrating disc that will shake you awake without disturbing your spouse.
Why We Love It: This is the second iteration of the SmartShaker, which aside from multiple vibrating levels also includes different tones, music, and voice recordings. The newest version also allows the disc to pair with other smart devices and trigger multiple functions to help a person wake up, such as having the lights turn on when the vibrating starts.
Nima Sensor
Company: 6SensorLabs
What Is it: A portable gluten sensor that allows you to test food when you're away from home.
Why We Love It: Put a piece of food (liquid or solid) into a one-time use capsule and within two minutes the sensor will measure if there's 20ppm or more of gluten in the food with a 99.5% accuracy. A smiley face on the device will let you know it's safe. In addition, a connected app will keep track of the food you tested along with food tested by the Nima community.
CUJO
Company: CUJO LLC
What Is it: CUJO monitors all the devices that are connected to your network to prevent hacks, viruses, malware and virtual intrusions—this includes all the new smart devices you might be installing.
Why We Love It: More devices in the home are getting connected everyday, from doorbells to thermostats, and with CUJO all those devices can be easily protected by simply plugging this device into your router. A friendly design and simple user-interface helps eliminate the stress of protecting your connected home.
Kwikset Premis
Company: Kwikset
What Is it: A smart deadbolt that offers remote access and works with Apple's HomeKit.
Why We Love It: Working with HomeKit means the deadbolt can now be incorporated into a "scene," i.e., tell Siri to "Go to Sleep" and it will turn off your lights, drop the room temperature, and lock your door with this single command. The Premis keypad can also recognize up to 30 unique user codes for guests who are watching your home while you're away.
Closet Depth Washer and Dryer
Company: Whirlpool
What Is it: A washer and dryer pair that offers fresh efficiencies making it easier to place these in areas of the home that aren't dedicated laundry rooms.
Why We Love It: Since storage space matters, families will appreciate that 12 loads of laundry detergent can be pre-loaded into the washer. Whirlpool also demonstrated their HybridCare Heat Pump dryer process, which is a ventless dryer system, opening up new locations where the dryer can be placed in a home. Lastly, the All-In-One Care system lets families put a load in the washer during bedtime and wake-up with the clothes washed and dried because the system will execute both processes without requiring the clothes to be transferred to the other machine.
Sengled Pulse
Company: Sengled
What Is it: An LED lightbulb with an integrated, wireless JBL speaker.
Why We Love It: Bluetooth technology lets a solo bulb act as a master connecting with up to seven satellite bulbs. The speaker provides great sound throughout the room without having to drop wires behind the walls. The adjustable lights can be controlled through a simple smartphone app on iOS and Android devices.
NanoLeaf Smarter Kit
Company: NanoLeaf
What Is it: The lighting kit comes with the world's most energy efficient bulb, The Smart Ivy; and The Smart Hub, a HomeKit-enabled control center.
Why We Love It: Besides from being super stylish with crazy energy efficiency, the bulb is also HomeKit compliant and future-proofed by working on the Zigbee communication protocol—allowing it to work with other platforms as well. This means while you're in bed you can use the app to turn off the lights in the kitchen. Did we mention that these bulbs can last up to 30 years!
OrCam
Company: OrCam
What Is it: A wearable virtual personal assistant—think Siri with eyes and ears.
Why We Love It: Clip this little device onto your shirt and it will receive video and audio and then perform complex AI tasks to make that information useful. For example, it could inform you of the people you're meeting or discourage you from eating that burger because it knows you're looking at a burger when you've already told it you're trying to cut back.
GlamFit
Company: GlamFit Jewelry
What Is it: Stylish fitness tracker that's designed to be worn outside of the gym.
Why We Love It: You shouldn't have to make a trade-off between looking good and tracking your basic activity. GlamFit Jewelry offers bracelets, necklaces and pendants. These can track your distance, calories burned and steps taken; along with measuring sleep patterns.
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