While there were legitimately newsworthy products announced at CES 2022, the news media can’t help but focus on oddball gadgets at the annual tech trade show.
News at CES 2022 included electric vehicles from General Motors and Sony; Lingo “biowearables” from Abbott Laboratories; an autonomous tractor from John Deere; and new processors from AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm.
What follows are some of the weird gadgets the media couldn’t stop talking about from CES 2022:
- A cute robotic plush cat that nibbles on your finger called Amagami Ham Ham. The stress-release device is from Yukai Engineering of Japan.
- The color-changing BMW car. The vehicle was wrapped in e-ink material.
- Ameca, a humanoid robot from British firm Engineered Arts, captivated attendees. It’s basically an animatronic character linked to a chatbot like Alexa.
- The dancing Spot robots from Boston Dynamics at the Hyundai exhibit.
- The Samsung Freestyle portable video projector. It looks like a tiny klieg light.
- A top photo opportunity for attendees at CES 2022 was hugging the giant plush sloth at the Motion Pillow booth. Motion Pillow is a smart pillow from 10minds.
- The stark exhibit space by LG Electronics, which pulled out of CES 2022 because of Covid fears. The large, mostly empty space was one of the most-photographed booths at the show.
- Electric-car maker Tesla got tons of free publicity for providing vehicles that shuttled passengers underground between halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Vegas Loop was built by Elon Musk’s Boring Company.
Photo: Amagami Ham Ham (Yukai Engineering)
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