Blog Post: Startups steal the show 2014

Nowadays we have higher technology than what we used to have before, people are creating more and more convenient products to world such as some smart devices like smart phones, tablets and etc. Other than those devices, there are also a lot more new little products that are really good to use for example. When we are hot, we wanted a fan but we are lazy to fan our-self, so we buy this small electrical fan to make our-self cool; its easy to use, easy to carry out. Or if we want to give our straight hair some curls, we can use iron curler, wait till it get hot and then curl our hair! before we might need hair curler and curl our hair piece by piece in order to get a perfect curl of hair etc. There a A LOT more new products that doesn't exist before that we have it now in which made our life way more convenient.

And in this article I'll be mentioning about the new and cool products that came up 2014 in the International Consumer Electronics Show. The first product is a small simple and cute looking device that has a cube shape components. We can play around with it by joining more cubes together since there's a small circle magnets attach to the cubes that enables many cubes join together and become one. It included a modular robotic concept called Moss. We can build different styles of robots however we want.

The next product in the show is this cute doll "Teddy the Guardian". It is really convenient because as what we know, kids are really afraid of doctors and going to hospitals, but now they created this little bear with its palm being inserted a pulse oximiter. This can measure blood pressure, heart rate, and it can send all these information of smart phone. They can also give information to babies about pulse.



Next, this product is call the "Kolibree" smart toothbrush. This toothbrush can inform the person who is brushing their teeth about whether they are brushing their teeth in a correct way or not, in this, we are able to brush our teeth more clean.

Next, this product is also a kind of product that suits a lot of people which is call the "Mother". The reason why its called "Mother" is because its function or its job is just like a mother. It has a accelerator-based, motion-tracking fitness concept in this wireless device with Bluetooth. It can sense the motions for whatever such as reminding you to take medicine, tell you to drink more water etc.

Next, this product is call Panano. It is like a small ball, about a size of your palm. It is covered with lenses all over that you can throw in the air and it can capture a 72-megapixel, 360-degree, great quality image. It's so cool that the cost of it is a little bit expensive.

Next, as we know that we can use our LED flash next to the camera on our smart phones now as flashlights. There's this product call iBlazr in which you use it by plugging it on your earphone jack. Even though this flashlight is connect to your phone, it has its own internal battery, so when you charge it with USB cable, it'll allow the light to double as a keyboard light! Another light product is called ZeroHour. The reason why it caught our eye is because its water, impact, and bomb proof. Sounds pretty cool.

Next product is a device that includes Nuvyyos Tablo and a dual-tuner DVR which makes pushing over-the-air TV to all our mobile devices easily. Basically its "air" feature is impressive, other than the air TV to all our mobile devices, AirTame which is a wireless adapter for Mac and PC is also good. AirTame worked by connecting the HDMI while running an app, you can then stream wireless video quickly. Another device that is computer-related is called the FINSix laptop power adapter. Since people are always traveling around, Mac created "Air" which is a lighter products for travelers, FINSix laptop power adapter has 65 watts, pretty much enough for a Mac to work. This can be work as a charger.

Main Concept:
As year goes by, there are more and more new interesting products coming up in the market. Just like what it's been mentioned in this article: The robot that you can create however you want it to be by attaching them together at the joint that has magnets; The little cute Teddy bear that has a main function which is to measure blood pressure, heart rate, etc. This grabs kid's attention and eventually, parents can check out kids' body health by using this bear instead of going to the hospital since this bear could connect to a smartphone and tell everything about the person who's holding the bear's palm. There are more new products mentioned in this article, basically it is all new and convenient and products that includes "smart" ideas.

Advantage & Disadvantage:
The good thing about these is that, they are really convenient and they are very smart. With these products, we can live our life easily. But the bad thing is that, these "smart" products are never going to be cheap. Because since its so smart, it must have inserted with  a lot of coding and expensive exponents combined together to create it, of course the price will be a bit higher. And since its a bit higher, people won't be thinking to actually buy them.

Question:
What will happen if the world doesn't have these kind of convenient products anymore? Will robot take over us in the future?

Citation:
 "CES 2014: Startups steal the show." CNET. 20 Jan. 2014 <http://ces.cnet.com/8301-35301_1-57617051/ces-2014-startups-steal-the-show/>.