QWERTY: Consumer Electronics Show 2016

The Consumer Electronics Show features the works and innovations of the biggest, brightest and most beautiful brains. This year, like every other, the CES showcased the very best of the products which will be launched this year. To rank the products would be a crime against the hardworking people who get the tech to work. Hence, below is a very small list of products among a horde of prize winners:

Faraday Future’s Zero 1 concept car

Faraday Future is the only rival to Tesla’s lightning strikes in field of automobiles. FF Zero 1, the new concept car model at CES 2016, stole the spotlight for a few hours on the first day. The car has futuristic and fantasy design standards, even for today’s existing super car. The closest I have come to a potential description is that, it’s a somewhere between a Batmobile and a Porsche. Being an electric car, the car is supposed to have a 1000hp engine. Let’s just wait and see when this concept turns into reality.

Virtual Reality, not just a Virtual Concept anymore

‘Oculus Rift’ the much awaited VR display headset is now available on pre-order. Virtual Reality is going to take gaming to the next level. VR gives the ability to literally ‘move worlds’. Well, fictional, virtual ones. Oculus Rift is not the only device that made the news in VR category. Samsung came up with a concept ‘Rink’ which is a series of palm controllers, giving hands and fingers in the virtual realm. Also, ‘Vive’, HTC’s virtual reality headset launched last year which has a feature that lets the user walk around in the real room the user is in while being in the virtual world, got a new feature called Chaperone which will cover the real stuff in your room. This view will pop up when the user is too close to the bed or the wall.

LG showcased some display sheets this year with not just great resolution but ones which could be rolled like a sheet of paper.

Took care of the ladies, too!

Apparently, phones and watches aren’t the only ones that are getting smart. OMsignal, a San Francisco based company has come out with smart bras. They think that women don’t need to wear a smart watch to know their vitals; their everyday clothing can do the same work.

Drones, drones, everywhere!

This year drones ruled over the skies at CES 2016. There were over a 100 drones with different designs and features. There was even a passenger carrying drone. Could this lead us to flying cars? We can only wait.