Today someone asked me if CES 2022 still offered a “fix for Covid”. After all, it can become one of the best gadgets of its time, a center of future technology full of various innovations, inventions and wild ideas. Past shows have brought us the first home VCR, the Tetris, the Oculus Rift, and who can forget the toilet paper delivery robot?
Unfortunately, there was no new magic device to treat COVID this year – or even help conduct rapid tests in areas filled with omicrons – which now include Las Vegas.
But there was a cute little robot that would bite your fingers to “comfort you and brighten your day”. While this is something you won’t forget, because it’s so weird, but amazing, a few more caught my attention.
Here are the most notable gadgets that come out of CES’s health category, including health, fitness, and yes, even a stuffed animal that chews your fingers.
Hydrow rowing machine
The digital fitness industry is experiencing its “steroids” moment, figuratively, of course, and a home rowing machine called Hydrow has caused quite a stir at CES.
It’s basically a Peloton on rowing, with enthusiastic, hard-working and inspiring instructors giving you more than 3,000 live and on-demand sessions on a machine that makes you look more like life than any other rowers on the market. they will. It’s quiet and you can adjust the weight to cross the fantastic water easily with meditation or take part in a full-fledged race. It also offers scenic rows in beautiful locations such as the Valden Pool in Massachusetts and Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
When done correctly, rowing covers 86 percent of the body’s major muscle groups, but whether you’re a beginner or an experienced athlete, it’s less impactful and easier to learn. For the past two weeks, I’ve been using it every day – and wow, the areas I didn’t even know I had muscles were hurting.
More than just 7 feet long, more than two feet wide, and almost 4 feet high, up to the top of the monitor, it takes its rightful share in your average living room. The company sells a $ 80 vertical conversion storage kit that attaches to the wall and allows for quick fixes to narrow spaces. Keep in mind that the machine weighs 145 pounds, so moving it from horizontal to vertical is just an exercise. Price – $ 2,295 + $ 38 / month subscription, but check the company’s website as I write this, they have a big sale until Sunday.
Picoo Outdoor Gaming for Kids
One for the little ones: Picoo’s “outdoor game console” promises kids ages 4 to 12 to play and run off and on the screen. The starter kit ($ 281) comes with four “consoles” – they’re screenless, flashlight-like hand-held controllers that light up and use a speaker, accelerometer, and vibrator for gaming. The set also comes with five cards that offer games such as Whack-a-Mole, Zombie Run or Lighting Bolt. To get started, the child scans the card, then completes assignments individually or as part of a team. Most importantly, it has a social character, encourages children to go out, is safe and very suitable for any special needs.
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UVCed smartphone is an ultraviolet radiation cleaner
Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve seen the launch of many gadgets that sanitize with ultraviolet light, but we’ve never seen it stick to the back of your smartphone before. UVCeed ($ 129.95) is a device slightly larger than a credit card that attaches magnetically to the back of your smartphone and promises to kill 99.9 percent of germs, bacteria and viruses, including COVID-19. .
The company said in a press release that it uses “powerful mercury-free LED UV rays and multiple sensors” to scan and clean the most common surfaces in seconds, such as keys, keyboards, remote controls and door handles. It is not safe to use on your own skin.
Its working method is simple; Connect UVCeed to your phone, open its app, point your phone somewhere, press the button that appears in the app’s enhanced reality, and see its annoyances in real time. If it senses a human or animal, the lights turn themselves off, so it is built to avoid exposure to things that should not be exposed to UV-C type radiation. It retails for $ 130 and is available for purchase now.
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Bob mini dishwasher
My spouse is immune to the allure of a cute gadget. He sees more than 1,000 new devices that I review every year, and he knows them all. Then, the Bob mini-dishwasher came to our doorstep and it now crushed technology like I had never seen before.
Connected to a Wi-Fi network, the microwave-sized mini dishwasher wraps around the sink and can wash two or one day’s dishes for dinner using a gallon-mounted water tank – so it’s a must-have it’s not. water supply. The washing cycle is very fast, twenty minutes, and the company claims that it uses five times less water than washing dishes by hand.
Oh, and this is another timely gadget for COVID that has a UV-C sanitary option that kills 99 percent of bacteria and viruses with a waterless cycle. It can now be pre-ordered, sells for $ 400, comes in a variety of colors, and is perfect for escaping a cramped apartment or small home.
When I asked my husband why he liked Bob so much, he said, “How can something so small, so little space, work so well? It is not necessary: I do not need a special plumbing or anything other than a place to pour it. It consumes very little water. That’s nice. I want to put it under my armpit and walk on the block. And that saves me from having to wash those dirty glasses by hand at the end of the day, which you find lying everywhere. “
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Sengled Smart Health Monitoring bulb
If you fall and can’t get up, can your light bulb help? According to a company called Sengled, the answer is great, “yes”. It has just introduced a dual-chip Smart Health Monitoring bulb with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networking that uses radar to monitor biometric measurements such as heart rate, body temperature and sleep monitoring. In a press release, the company said that by connecting multiple light bulbs via Bluetooth Mesh and creating a virtual map around your home, smart lighting “can even help detect human behavior and determine if someone has fallen and then help. sends “. It is expected to be released by the end of 2022; There is no information about the price yet.
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Amagami Ham Ham is a robot toy that bites your fingers
The strangest, most exciting new gadget of the year came out of the company that gave us a weird, furry pillow with a quoobo tail wag a few years ago: Amagami A stuffed animal robot that bites both fingers.
The man who invented it says it was built as a comforting companion based on the protagonist of the popular Japanese “Nemu Nemu” stuffed animal series. “The robot will use a special algorithm” HAMgoritm “to randomly select from twenty” nibbling patterns “to attract users,” – said in a press release. “Most people love the feeling of being bitten, but they know they need to teach their children or pets to stop doing it because children and pets will eventually bite them completely,” he added. Tsubasa Tominaga, came up with the idea of Yukai Engineering CMO. “Hopefully, playing with this cute robot will give you comfort and make your day brighter at CES 2022,” he said.
I asked the weird little character review department and the company promised to send it in the next month or two, so wait for the follow-up, of course.
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