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                      1. Today, walking around CES, I saw a lot of self-driving rickshaws, programmable robot arms, connected sex toys, things that claimed to have AI and...a whole bunch of self-cleaning cat boxes?
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                      Also, Onyx is doing a Boox eink phone.
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                    Some really chunky airpods knockoffs.
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                I found one @keyboardio Model 01 on the show floor
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              The best pitch and patter of the day, hands down, goes to the IoT potato, hitting indiegogo for $30 in the near future.
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            There was a hop-counting connected jump rope.
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        Best URL of the morning. At a scooter company. ditch.school
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      this is a bit inside baseball but...keyboard nerds will get it.
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    A delivery bot just, very politely, told me to get out of its way.
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      Lots of drones today. Drones that can fly in a rain storm.
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          Drones that scare the crap out of me
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              I thought the boat drone somebody brought was over the top
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                And then I saw the tractor drone
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                  The segway chariot isn’t technically a drone.
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                    I’m pretty sure this thing just needs a tail to be nightmare fuel from the Matrix.
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                      “Smart dust” aka “Grey goo. Just add water”
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                        As mentioned previously, there are a ton of sex toy companies at CES this year. Neither of these companies is one of them.
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                          It’s not infringement. It’s trolling.
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                            Another CES trend: The suggestion of cars
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                                I think this one really drives.
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                                  This one is just a wire frame made of EL wire
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                                      I think this must be a demo of selective water jet cutting technology.
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                                        There are plenty of VTOL aircraft on the show floor. This is the first one I’ve seen that claims to be a flying car.
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                                          They told me that there was a car at the Sony booth. I was not disappointed.
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                                              English is a tough language. I try not to make fun of Engrish, but the second you bring blockchain into it, the gloves come off.
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                                                Human hamster balls. You know. For VR.
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                                                  Automated Rubik’s Cube solver & training tool. It has an integrated social network and competition system with 20k members.
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                                                    Coolest is dead. Long live Coolest.
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                                                      A new take on nail printers. Instead of printing on your nails, this one does dye sub on precut adhesive plastic sheets. Fully custom press-on nail art designed on your phone using pocket photo printer technology. $140 layer this year.
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                                                        My dad just digitized some old record-at-home 78s from the early 1940s and I heard my grandmother’s voice for the first time. This German company built a new recording phonograph.
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                                                          Thin material which can be toggled between clear and semi-opaque. As a sign of things getting only a little bit better, their demo “dress which can be invisible” was at least on a mannequin and not a person.
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                                                              sometimes, the right answer is not to just combine the two company names.
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                                                                TFW your friends get much cooler badges than you do. (Mine just said “Industry Attendee”)
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                                                                  And with that, I’m home from CES. I may talk a bit more about the show on this thread, but I think I’m out of pictures.
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                            I know the elevator is a reasonable accommodation, but really?