Today at CES: Baby wearables, texts from canine, and E-Ink vehicles

It’s the primary official day of CES and our staff has already situated dozens of the best new devices, options, and bizarre idea vehicles that in all probability won’t ever see the sunshine of day.

Halo (not Amazon’s Halo) has a wearable for infants that tracks coronary heart fee, rollover, pores and skin temperature, and motion. 10,000 steps a day could appear robust when you’ll be able to’t stroll, nevertheless it’s vital to have targets.

Aeolus Robotics made a humanoid robotic, Aeo, that’s meant to assist out at faculties and hospitals by disinfecting, delivering meals, and doing primary patrolling. It also can apparently take selfies.

Since we’re all finally going to dwell within the metaverse, let’s scan our rooms so the transition gained’t be too stunning. MeetKai turns smartphone video into detailed 3D environments.

MeetKai’s room-rendering tech.

Amazon is stepping up its Sidewalk community with a bunch of low-bandwidth IoT issues and companions. We’re all clearly nonetheless determining this complete “smart home” factor.

Labrador Systems has upgraded its elder-care robotic with an Echo Show, utilizing it as a kind of frontend for the bot. It’s an “early proof of concept,” which is sweet as a result of I’m undecided it’s the best way to go.

Alexa can now inform you the place the closest public charging spot on your electrical car is. It’s unhappy that is obligatory but when that’s the extent of your hardship, perhaps that’s one thing to be blissful about.

Knock knock, who’s there? Blond folks!

Still on the Amazon tip, Ring is bringing again the Peephole Cam. Why rise up from the sofa?

Plex is lastly — two years after asserting it at CES 2020 — launching its leases market. “It was a lot harder than we thought,” mentioned co-founder Scott Olechowski. Now repair the PS5 app, Scott! It’s a catastrophe! (Is there an issue degree a degree of triviality above first-world? I’ve tons.)

Ossia and its Cota wi-fi energy have been on stage at Disrupt 2023… sorry, 2013. But they’re nonetheless placing it on the market and now have a safety digicam that runs on wi-fi energy as an alternative of batteries. That looks like a fairly good concept, although the battery ones go for like a yr now.

Image Credits: Ossia

Have stuff you wish to lock away? Put them in a shiny excessive tech field from Trova that solely opens with permission out of your cellphone. Sure, you could possibly use a daily lock of actually any sort, however that’s not very CES.

I chatted with the fellows from StudioBox at Disrupt, and was planning on writing up the pro-remote-video-studio-in-a-box, however Haje ate my lunch. Read up on how they’re adjusting their enterprise to the post-pandemic world:

Smart audio system are good till you could have 2 or 3 of them, then you don’t have any concept the place your music will go once you hit play. Google has an answer, form of. More like a method to handle the issue.

Google additionally offered some extra data on its Android Auto UI refresh, and an HD improve for its automotive maps that may have extra exact lane markings, objects, and different stuff included. Volvo will get it first, in addition to Polestar, apparently an actual automotive firm.

Image Credits: AXS Technologies

Power1’s AirPods charging case is now smaller, nevertheless it nonetheless appears to be like like a bizarre humpback ziggurat to me. If you’re operating out of battery a lot you want this factor… you’re in all probability tremendous profitable. Congratulations.

To me, AirPods charging issues aren’t sensible however canine communication gadgets are. FluentPet Connect has programmable buttons that don’t simply communicate the phrase, however ship a message to your cellphone. You’re about to do about 50 walks a day, as a result of good luck saying no to messages like HELP FRIEND PLAY:

Image Credits: FluentPet

Typhur presents a sous vide cooker with a 12-inch show. How massive is the show on your sous vide cooker? Thought so.

Qualcomm picked CES to announce that it will likely be bringing satellite tv for pc messaging to “select Android devices,” like these with its newest flagship chipset. Not me, then.

Breakout moveable energy firm EcoFlow now makes a lawnmower, moveable air conditioner, and moveable fridge. This is why we’re going to have a lithium scarcity, folks!

EcoFlow Blade. Image Credit: EcoFlow

Car stuff under this line

Sony and Honda collaborated on a undoubtedly actual automotive below the baffling “Afeela” model. You’ll have the ability to order one beginning in 2025, supposedly.

BMW isn’t even pretending its i Vision Dee is actual. They employed Schwarzenegger to do the intro video, and the outside will be personalized with completely different colours of E-Ink (all ugly). It additionally has some form of loopy HUD.

300 frames on this gif and in not one in every of them does the automotive look good.

I attempted to dismiss this however BMW’s CEO Oliver Zipse mentioned it “cannot be simply dismissed as science fiction because it will inspire our Neue Klasse.” Touché, Oliver.

Stellantis is increasing its automotive sharing, rental, and subscription service Free2move within the U.S., although in fact it isn’t free in any respect. Free floating, sure. If you’re in Denver, Portland, Columbus, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Detroit, Dallas, Miami, Chicago or Tampa, put together your self.

In utterly unrelated information, Stellantis fashioned a brand new enterprise unit to transform car knowledge into cash.

That’s all as of now, however our tireless reporters will churn out content material for you properly into the Las Vegas night time.