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greetings world and welcome to cnet's live coverage of the consumer electronics show CES 2016 it's the biggest tech show of the year and we're coming to you live from the cnet stage at the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Bridget Carey joined by Jeff Bakalar and we kick things off every day this week with our show inside scoop this is the second day of the CES show floor that it's open and we spent the past few days covering the future tech coming in 2016 including smart home appliances concept car tech televisions of course TVs it's not CES without a giant TV that no one really needs and a few robots and drones naturally there's even a robot that you can ride and we'll get to a live demo of that in just a few minutes but first I want to talk about one of the bigger trends that we're seeing at the show wearable tech now for a few years now we've seen companies want to strap all sorts of things to our bodies that's a show but the health side of wearable tech just continues to grow and take new forms and some of it makes sense and other things can be a little strange just just a little strange yeah well so you and I were talking about this backstage before we came out here and one of the first kind of companies that I was making a lot of headlines yesterday was Fitbit in their new initiative to sort of take over maybe a more higher-end SmartWatch right kind of getting closer to that Apple watch side of things are that pebble watch side of things right we're seeing video now where the new model the blaze has a color screen on it now this isn't doing everything that a smart smart watch can do but you are getting some notifications from your phone with X and a calendar alerts and you can switch it out with different bands so a little more style you know fip it's popular but you don't usually have a lot of options other than a rubber and I mean if you go back and look at what that brand has done a lot of other products have really focused on subtlety where is the blaze sort of comes out and says hey this is a piece of fashion you know it's a fashionable accessory this is this is jewelry this is something you want to show off so definitely a change of pace for that brand but then we got we got to talk about the elephant in the room with with Fitbit they're at the mercy of a class-action lawsuit dealing with reporting inaccurate heartbeats reading right the same day that they came out with this new blaze watch tracker is the same day that they got a class action lawsuit over the fact that they're the claims are it's not accurately tracking your heartbeat in fact some in the claim we're saying like half of the heart beats per minute we're being counted which is shocking i mean i don't think anybody ever accused ace you know a fitness tracking you know sort of biometric scanner device to replace a doctor or any kind of realistic medical advice right but at the same time it could be used as this complementary product you need to be close definitely I mean not if you wear like five of them on your wrist at once you're gonna get like slightly different things because none of it's perfect it's it's like how you're going up and down as a step sure but yeah I mean it's definitely you know I think if if anything I think it will shed a lot more light on the category as a whole and sort of say hey let's take a step back and maybe look at just how accurate or inaccurate these devices are reporting these pretty vital metrics and kind of go from there you know so with Fitbit being one of the stars because everyone you know knows Fitbit there are some other ways of tracking that aren't so when you put on your wrist right um like the hexose skin smart it's a new biometric tracking shirt as the second generation so this thing has been out but now it's got bluetooth smart so the battery life is better and here's some of the stats you can work out in this shirt not only is the tracking your heart rate your breathing rate your breathing volume so if you're like a heavy breather like so it can tell you it's like how much you know a cubic volume of air you're sort of breathing in insights on on your recovery which I do not want to know like I rather just know how well I did not know pathetic I am after the run and there's also sleep quality but I hope you don't like track your sleep after you're on because that's just nasty it just sounds like I'm wearing the shirt for a very long time I hope there's some sort of laundry in between them okay so speaking of that you can work out an hour a day for five days a week and not have to charge this shirt so for nearly seven weeks so the charging on the durban age please please wash beyond the charge at least as much as as other you know I hope they're sort of doing some sort of antimicrobial you know cotton right you would hope and then also speaking of things you can wear there is the LUMO run shorts ok now the shorts themselves the fabric isn't smart it's what you put in your short story smarty pants this is but Tex this is but tech website but it's Patek yeah that's what day it is a like basically a a device that you put in a pocket and this thing is tracking not just how long you're running and how far you're running how but also other kind of analysis like your pelvic twisting Russ so it's doing this all in real time and saying that data to a phone what you're seeing on the screen here this is the real time you know what your run is and how long you're running but okay that's a little different you know how your how you're moving your pelvis it's a step in an interesting direction I think we're bombarded by all these pedometers and and you know products that kind of all do the same thing it's nice to see something may be thinking a little bit outside the box but this next product I'm very psyched about I'm sure you are as well because finally there may be a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to not looking like a damn fool when wearing some sort of smart glass technology yes and this is thanks to carl zeiss the glassmaker lens maker they've sort of been working on this prototype this tech that will introduce the ability to sort of see things in glass in your glasses without like we said looking goofy you know this giant thing hanging off the right or left side of your face like I do with Google glass this is this is the idea that the frames look normal and they've worked on the lens so that when you do put computer technology inside it'll just select the screens floating in front of you now if someone looks at you it looks like you got like some on yours something's on your glass sure they'll be like hey wash that off yeah all right but but at least you don't have like you know a giant camera like definitely and I think and yes they're not inventing the the actual computing tech the short of just saying hey here's this vessel we could we figure out a way for it to be displayed without a overbearing sort of contraption right so when so in the the glasses do become something that you know is a little more common there there there to rescue us on the fashion you want you too hot on google glass right yeah i mean you're like fun for the moment but you're not really wearing this thing all the time right ah so here's something else that may make you look a little crazy yeah speaking of looking dorky the other direction this is from Samsung um all right we talked a lot about the fitness tracking stuff that you wear on your wrist right on one end they kind of went smart here this is called tip talk and it's a traditional strap that you add to or it's a wat it's a strap you add to a traditional watch I meant the same and they'll do your fitness tracking but it takes phone calls this is I had to take phone calls I can't tell if this is cool or not to take phone calls yeah you stick your finger in your ear right and then and go hello yeah kind of like some sort of get smart situation here Sheamus actually you could see a picture of him trying it out he said in his review that he was in a really loud conference center and it was a little muffled but he could make out and that's the cool thing like they figure out a weight is it bone convince not bone conduction but it is going through your organ it's just Langer the vibrations are just traveling through your blood so your finger yeah that's terrifying your finger is actually the earpiece right which is crazy I think that's just on you know by itself that text kind of cool I mean it is something out of out of a TV show of the past but it was something ridiculous but you know maybe gotta take a quick phone call I said oh hello hello I mean I'm evil people will still think you're crazy in the supermarket well you see all those like Secret Service guys always going like you know I want to do that yeah make you look important yeah be like come again well you know and and they say the target price is eighty dollars so it's not so far out that you might want to try it and not feel so bad on over the top I think it's something we may want to look out for right Samsung has a few other things they've been working on they've a whole division of some strange wearable tech yeah and and that got people's heads turning the other day so how about a belt yeah how about a smart belt it's not just a belt it's called a welt so don't I don't think you call your belt oh well all right okay as long as you agree to go with of your name you know so why is this a smart belt though what does it do well um it's tracking how many steps like everything does because I need to know how many steps I take all the time right and how long you been sitting okay and this is the part I don't really feel comfortable with sitting is the new smoking oh yeah well so they say yeah and then they also tracks you're eating and your waistline sighs sure so if you ate a lot one day this belts gonna guilt you and say if you keep eating like this I won't fit you anymore pretty much weight like you will gain two pounds in a month yeah I don't need my belt judging me ah there's enough judgment in my life from other devices exactly that's we're just entering an error of judgment tech that's always but yeah I guess it's something that someone out there might find interesting this is more of like a prototype situation we'll have to see if there really is a demand but there's one product I wanted to talk about before we have to hit the brake they have a samsung also has a smart business suit okay with NFC technology that's better selves in Korea for five hundred dollars I but they want to like expand it so you'll be able to share your contact information by kind of literally rubbing up against somebody like I've seen the sleeve right and so so it would be like hello Joe oh that's your baby we just met like you're obviously just meeting someone of your exchanging information let's rub wrists let's see how like just like that hey see I feel violated but that's fine there you have you'll never forget that person's oh no yeah that's a rememberable business also there's Patek for women too if there's a purse okay you know is it doesn't have that creepy factor with you know rubbing purses or something but it does have solar panels on the sides called the soul bag purse it doesn't years what i don't like about it though like kinda missed the perfect point aside from looking like a honeycomb on the front it doesn't store the power you only get the power in real time it charges your phone when your phones inside of the purse so you're getting a charge if you're laying out in the park and you have direct sunlight oh that you know you're getting like itty-bitty charges that time that's a very specific situation yeah I didn't have to look a little a little cuter I don't ya ain't no like I don't and function over fashion I guess we going to the beach but but you know I have a feeling that the thought could be true cheap you know early for hours right four hours of charging yeah it can get four hours of charging on a phone but once again you got to be outside so you know also put on that sun block while you're charging for four hours interesting alright I would like to check that out I don't really they would maybe get me to go on the Sun that's not really our expertise it