Which gadget to buy in 2017




















This is a two-bay NAS, which should be big enough for most with a good-sized hard drive. This is a USB 3. But that also limits its ability to work with some newer laptops that only use USB-C. As the name implies, it holds 10 USB 3. For what it is, the Port works well. Something like this Aukey hub with four USB 3. It also maintains a quality image in less-than-ideal lighting. The world of webcams has not seen a great deal of innovation over the past few years.

Even as the rest of the world embraced 4K video, most webcams were stuck at p and a measly 30 frames per second. They're kitted out with LED lights that change color, from green to blue to purple to red, based on how long you've been showering. The aim here is to cut unnecessarily long showers short, saving you money on utility bills in the process. And you can turn it on without getting out of bed. VR goggles are nice and all, but how can you really feel like you're flying when your feet are on the ground -- or your butt is on the couch?

Enter this Paris-based startup, which built a piece of furniture to help you get your body in the game. Cool looking and practical! This physio glove focuses and monitors your rehab by gamifying it with an app and providing measurable feedback to guide your efforts. It's not a real product yet, but Fove can plant the flag as the first company to have a usable VR headset with eye-tracking built in. Given how imprecise VR interfaces can be and how much data eye tracking can gather to inform how scenes render, the technology is a hot area for development.

Plus, LG claims the picture quality of these are better than last year's, which are pretty terrific. With a raft of innovative new features and enough 4K and HD recording options to make your head spin, this replacement to Panasonic's video-popular GH4 promises to be one of the most impressive cameras of the year.

It's not just a cool-looking voice assistant like the Amazon Echo and countless others. The Pebble's twist: Melody, your guide, can recognize voices and change its activities based on the individual who's talking. Plus, it really is an assistant, with the ability to manage your calendar. Endless gets its cool cred in part from its intentions. The Endless computers are small, cheap and optimized for areas where internet access is unpredictable.

This year's models have a more sophisticated design than its Mini plastic ball. Though they don't run a standard operation system, they come piled with applications.

Plus, the systems will also work with its Endless Code initiative, a preinstalled package of tutorials and tools for teenage-level prospective coders. This follow-me robot assistant uses face recognition to identify angry, scrunchy countenances. If it's a baby it'll notify you and automatically launch into pacification mode with music, a fan or an audiobook. These bands for your wrists and ankles use accelerometers and an app to coach you to develop more graceful movement.

That's neat in itself, but their ability to approximate full-body motion makes me think they'd be a great start for a consumer motion-capture system. That's just how I roll. Who needs solar? While you're strolling your child through the park the Moxi is turning all its wheel-turning kinetic energy into usable electricity. You can charge your phone, light your path or track your distance. It may be a cheap foam block, but it works in conjunction with Merge VR's inexpensive headset to turn it into an AR toy.

Cordless, quiet and pretty darn liberating -- the Willow wearable breast pump is hands-free mothering at its best. Breathalyzers are fine, but the Skyn band tracks your blood-alcohol content in real time and proves to you that you're a lightweight. I'm not sure you could read that screen after a few too many, though. Airbar brought us the accessory that simulates touchscreen operation on Windows, and now it's done the same for selected MacBooks. Mac users, you can check your touchscreen envy at the door.

Sony made a TV that sort of lets you see sound. It eschews speakers in favor of audio that comes right at you from the screen. I don't game, but a multiscreen portable -- I refuse to call something that weighs 12 pounds 5. And it's like a giant curved screen! It's just a concept now, but I vote yea! But I don't think I've ever seen one of the Polaroid Snap models in the wild.

That might change with this charmingly designed instant camera that doesn't discard digital conveniences. The first 8K 7,x4,pixel display, this inch monitor crams in enough resolution to retouch the hairs off a model's face and nudge your pixels precisely in Adobe Illustrator. It doesn't match that by covering the entire Rec color space -- it's only bit color, not bit -- and it's not clear whether it stores the color profiles in hardware or not, but you can't expect everything at once.

It's a drone and a learning experience. You snap the blocks together magnetically -- you can configurate it as things besides a hexacopter -- and program it via the app. Fun for all ages!

Ziro's a kit full of robotics fun. You build them, program them via an app and control them via a smart glove. Wave "hi" robot arm! We've seen this concept before , but that doesn't make it any less impressive. It's an HD projector that can supplement your game display by filling your walls with action as you play. It's still just a prototype, but a girl can dream. Despite how long it's been around, haptic technology is still really in its infancy. Tanvas takes it a step towards toddlerhood with touch feedback that gives you a sense of what different materials feel like.

There's a countably infinite supply of noise-cancelling headphones at CES, but these manage to rise above the noise. You can set the Hero headphones to allow certain voices through and block everything else; while Sidekick is a version of them that you fit on your existing headphones.

This is what the future should sound like. There are a boatload of companies offering firewalls to stand between your home network and the evil outsiders who want to compromise your security.

At least this one's cute and relatively inexpensive. Essentially a weird-looking, kitchen-centric Amazon Echo with a projector it's a Magic 8-Ball for the 21st century , the Egg not only looks up receipes you ask for, but projects step-by-step videos to help you make them.

There's a similar concept assistant from Bosch , but it's not nearly as goofy looking, which is part of Hello Egg's charm. If it rolls its eye at my cooking skills, though, it's gonna end up scrambled.

Forget autonomous cars; this motorcycle can park itself, because its ability to balance means it can motor without you on it. Some car designer realized that they'd been woefully underutilizing spline surfaces in their CAD software and decided to use a year's supply in one shot for this AI-powered car.

With a built-in battery and USB ports you can charge your devices from, this smart carry-on bag is a sleek and smart gift the frequent flyer. Another mesh-network option, this has a slightly more upscale look than Google Wi-FI and its extenders plug right into the power sockets in the walls. A bonus for parents: the ability to filter content and turn off internet access to certain devices at certain times. This pocket-sized projector will put your phone screen on the big screen.

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