Gadgetory

it's not normal to talk to our devices there's a good chance the phone you have or your next phone already has this technology it lets do all sorts of things without ever touching your screen nuance is one of the most well-known companies making this a seamless and invisible experience you might know them from the work on Apple Siri they're here the consumer electronics show showing off new technologies for wristwatches computers and televisions it can do anything from changing the channel to turning off the lights in your home and it's getting better faster and smarter and knowing who you are nuance has also expanded from voice technologies to touch if I keyboard company swiped three years ago and since then it's managed to squeeze down that experience used to use with your thumbs down to a finger right on your wrist watch like science fiction these ideas might seem nebulous and far-off where they're here right now and they're spreading out to other devices so the first thing we saw was a television that you can talk to and change the channels watch Judge Judy nuance has been doing this for years but what's new is that it can actually recognize who's talking it's like it knows me one example we saw is it you can pick up the remote control and actually say I want to see my lineup and see things that you've already looked at things you've saved and so if someone else comes and watches your television it's not going to confuse it with you another thing we saw as a wristwatch that you can just write on with your finger this really didn't work well the idea is so crazy to take something that used to be a couple inches wide and put it down into something you can use with just the tip of your finger the third thing we saw is a computer app that's a lot like Apple's Siri you just talk into it and it's always listening so you can just say hey dragon what's the best Thai restaurant in Las Vegas get restaurant reviews music recommendations and it'll just fire up apps it's pretty amazing it's also rolling out a new pcs with technology that's always listening because nuance basically works with other companies they've created technology that works with other products from other places one example is Philips hue this is a lighting system you can use with your smartphone what they've done is combine this with their voice technology so you can say turn the lights blue turn it into party mode turning into study mode and the lights will change around you it takes that same thing that used to be on the side of your wall and puts it your wrist we had about an hour to play with all three of these things and when they worked it was amazing and when it failed they failed spectacularly but the important thing is that this is the same software that's been out for a couple years but they keep adding features that makes it more impressive functional and simple to use and the amazing thing is they've taken it from these very simple devices where it seems obvious and put it in places where you wouldn't even think like a wristwatch What's in wristwatches now it could be somewhere completely different in just a few years