Weird products and useless inventions at CES 2024 - YOUR FRIDGE NEEDS AI. YOUR TOILET NEEDS AI. YOUR DOOR NEEDS AI.

The dog robot is for lazy “dog mommys” who love their precious heckin doggo but don’t want to actually do any of the work of owning a dog.

Personally I can’t wait for my Shitter Stats of how long I’m on the john for, how much weight I expel, and a yearly recap of my best BMs.
 
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TheGoodNamesHaveBeenTaken said:
Has anyone put a camera in the fridge yet?

If you have a monitor on the door then you could see what's inside without opening the door.
Handy if you have kids that open the door and stare while making up their mind what to eat.
Better yet you could look on your phone and have already picked out what you want before you even get to the kitchen.

If one of their delivery drivers reports you as a racist will Amazon shut off your smart toilet, lock your fridge, turn off the HVAC and lock you in or out of your house?

I do not understand why a toilet needs an internet connection.
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This one from LG has a transparent section

This company is making an EV RV for $125K
Add knows their demo: tech bros with too much money, asian wife and hapa children.
I can't wait till one catches on fire and causes the next big wildfire.
 
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So, AI definitely seems to be a theme.
Maybe for an automatic vacuum AI could be good, but why would you want AI in your fridge? A fridge is a passive device, it keeps things cold, that's it.
If you want to make a shopping list or manage your inventory, that's what your phone/computer/tablet is for.
Same with a toilet, a toilet is there to collect your bodily waste. It doesn't need internet or artificial intelligence. It's a fucking hole to poop into.
These are appliances you expect to last not years, but decades, if not multiple decades.
Your smart fridge won't be so smart next year, much less in ten.
 
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Can someone please pitch making a range with a stovetop that has some kind of ports that you can plug a thermometer into and it will automatically adjust the flame/electricity to maintain said temperature?

Asking for a friend who got VERY nervous maintaining the proper simmer to "boil" an $80 lobster over the holidays.
 
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General Disarray said:
Can someone please pitch making a range with a stovetop that has some kind of ports that you can plug a thermometer into and it will automatically adjust the flame/electricity to maintain said temperature?

Asking for a friend who got VERY nervous maintaining the proper simmer to "boil" an $80 lobster over the holidays.
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Sure we can do that. The stove can only be interacted with a touchscreen, integrates with Alexa for voice control and ChatGPT for cooking suggestions, plus other AI models to determine how to cook your food for you (your food will always be stone cold or burnt to shit, there are no in-betweens). The stove requires an Internet connection at all times and will refuse to function without Internet. There will probably be cameras in the stove too so you can Facetime grandma while you cook (and so the feds/Russian hackers can doxx you while you cook). Also the stove will monitor your gas or electricity consumption and either cook your food at 100 degrees for 6 hours or if you've cooked too much food will disable itself for 48-72 hours so you don't waste too much energy! A subscription will be mandatory to use the stove. You can pay a small amount and have your stove play ads constantly while your food is cooking, or pay a higher amount and have ads play once every 15 minutes. The stove will be supported for about a year, then abandoned by the manufacturer and replaced with Stove 2!

I could go on and on and on...
 
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Mobinn (a spinoff company from Hyundai) unveils the delivery bot that can climb stairs.
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Supernal, also related to Hyundai, also unveils the S-A2, a successor to the S-A1 shown at CES 2020.
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Certification starts 2024/2025, and can travel at 120 mph at 1500 feet, with trips expected to be between 20 to 40 miles. Engine isn't mentioned, but it has 8 tilting rotors.

Pivotal announces preorders for the Helix, a lightweight electric aircraft that doesn't require a pilot's licence to fly, and only costs $190,000.
...It also has a range of 20 miles and takes over 75 minutes to charge from empty to full. And you can't fly it over congested areas or near airports.
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Neoplants shows off the Neo P1 bioengineered plant, able to clean air better than 20 normal plants.
It looks like a normal plant in a tube, but...

XPeng unveils a concept flying car, as well as a 'land aircraft carrier'
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And L'Oreal shows off the AirLight Pro, a smart hair dryer, using infrared light and wind, leaving hair smoother. It also has smart sensors to adjust settings.
 

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Mentioning AI, VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year (a).
Volkswagen presented its first vehicles featuring ChatGPT, to be available for customers in North America and Europe from early in the second quarter of this year, at the CES electronics trade fair.
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From raising the temperature when it hears "I'm feeling cold" to showing the nearest Indian restaurant upon hearing "I want butter chicken", the AI can recognise and respond to a range of demands
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"Our customers don't want to manually adjust their seats ... they want to use speech dialogue systems," he said.
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Mobinn (a spinoff company from Hyundai) unveils the delivery bot that can climb stairs.
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Was hoping it'd be progress on the Elevate concept shown off at CES years ago, but there's practically been radio silence since.
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Of course the idea's basically impossible with current tech at that scale, but they'd made progress with a small prototype within a year ish after they showed the stuff off. Maybe it's on the backburner as Hyundai'd bought Boston Dynamics in the hopes they push robotics far enough before bothering any more.
 
The vast majority of those concepts are usually 1 or 2 models, partly to gauge public interest, and partly to see if it's actually reasonable/possible to produce, and might have a top speed of 15 mph if they work at all.

...Fun fact, the infamous Pontiac Aztec was originally a concept car, shown in 1999.
 
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The vast majority of those concepts are usually 1 or 2 models, partly to gauge public interest, and partly to see if it's actually reasonable/possible to produce, and might have a top speed of 15 mph if they work at all.
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Oh yeah, no, in this case there's no way they'd be able to make an actual concept vehicle, and they didn't, just a video of some renders, concept art, and a scale model. I doubt this thing will even be possible within ten years of NOW in the range of capabilities they showed here.
Whew it's been five years since this, that said.
 
popsoda said:
So, AI definitely seems to be a theme.
Maybe for an automatic vacuum AI could be good, but why would you want AI in your fridge? A fridge is a passive device, it keeps things cold, that's it.
If you want to make a shopping list or manage your inventory, that's what your phone/computer/tablet is for.
Same with a toilet, a toilet is there to collect your bodily waste. It doesn't need internet or artificial intelligence. It's a fucking hole to poop into.
These are appliances you expect to last not years, but decades, if not multiple decades.
Your smart fridge won't be so smart next year, much less in ten.
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Guess which Cool New Technology the corpo world is soyfacing over right now?
 
Eureka announces the Dual Washing Bot, which is actually a good idea. A combo washing machine/dryer, with a small cleaning robot that lives in the bottom of it.

Milo announces a mobile voice communication platform, which fits in the palm of your hand, and can be used to talk to groups of people nearby, and has AI.
Good job lads, you invented a walkie talkie.

Droyd announces the Droyd Venym Electric Skateboard, which is a small skateboard for kids with two small motors. Capped at 3 mph, but they'll hurt themselves on it anyway.

CES goes for a couple more days, but I think that's basically most of the announcements done.
 
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Is AI like the new "smart + (appliance that didn't need to be smart)" prefix of this era?

Also, what is it with people wanting to have their appliances move on their own.
 
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I don't mind robot pet toys.
I feel bad that I have to leave my cat alone while I'm at work, even if usually most of the time his enjoyment of New Gizmo is figuring out a way to knock it off the shelf or otherwise knocking it over
not quite the intent of the gizmos but at least he found a way to have fun with them
 
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