 a finger-mounted smart-phone stylus, electric roller skates, Audi's hybrid race car and an app-controlled personal massage device.)
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS: The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show featured, among other things: (clockwise from top left) a finger-mounted smart-phone stylus, electric roller skates, Audi's hybrid race car and an app-controlled personal massage device.
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Amidst the onslaught of tablets, smart-phone accessories, ultra high-definition televisions and 3-D printers on display at last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a handful of gadgets and technologies caught Scientific American’s attention.
Some of these fall in the popular categories mentioned above, whereas others promise to push the boundaries of other domains, such as electric-powered transportation. Still others, like Brothers’ touchscreen embroidery machine, stood out for their ability to symbolically marry the Industrial Revolution with its digital equivalent currently underway. And then there were OhMiBod’s app-controlled personal massagers…
View our lineup of CES’s brightest and oddest technologies.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAudi's concept hybrid race car is cool, but it's already a "me too." Last year Toyota raced a hybrid Supra at Le Mans. Too bad Toyota didn't bring one to CES.
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