Gadgetory

CES 2016 is just getting started and already things are getting weird I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update here at the 2016 International Consumer Electronic Show the press is getting some early peeks at products and news before the show floor opens at the Las Vegas Convention Center companies are still putting the finishing touches on their boots here you see Intel's booth with these massive glowing body statues all around it appears there's a big focus around health tech and how gadgets can better you as a human being it's a trend racine repeated by a few companies this year and yes that means more things you can strap to your body garmin unveiled a pair of smart glasses called the Vera vision it's similar to Google glass but it's for bikers it clips onto your existing sunglasses and a color screen hangs over your right eye to show you performance data and turn-by-turn directions it ships in march and costs four hundred dollars the garmin heads that does make sense for bicyclists but not only tech T's so far seems as useful Samsung's Korean flickr account published images of some large appliances debuting and there's a four door fridge with a giant touchscreen taking up an entire door it's called a family hub refrigerator CES can feel like a car show with concepts like this and actually CES is becoming more of an actual car show a California company called Faraday future showed off a radical concept electric vehicle called the FF 0 1 it looks like some sort of battery-powered Batmobile it's a 1000 horsepower all-wheel drive hyper car and one driver sits snug in the center of this cockpit you slide your smartphone into a slot on the steering wheel so the car can configure to your settings oh and did I mention it's a self-driving car that can also self drive on a racetrack but let's go back to tech for the home if you need help in the kitchen you can cook with the smarty pants for three hundred dollars you tell the app what ingredients you're throwing in the pan and then sensors calculate the calories and other nutritional data and it records the time temperature and weight of your ingredients so it can create a recipe that you share it won't help your food taste better so that part is still up to you but if your leg could use some better smells there's the sensor wink it's an alarm clock that wakes you by diffusing 15 different scents like coffee mint or the smell of money now I hope you also like the smell of spending money because it costs around a hundred dollars and the scent pods are five dollars each and each last one month not your tech news update so stay tuned all week long for a continuing CES coverage coming to you from the cnet stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Bridget Carey