Best of CES 2023: High-tech eyebrows and a boba tea robot
Tech companies showed off their latest products this week at CES. formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, with new developments in video as well as lifestyle enhancements with beverage and makeup gadgets.
Crowds of investors, media and tech workers have streamed into cavernous Las Vegas venues to see the latest tech from big companies and startups. The show runs through Sunday.
Here are some highlights:
Tired of the same old Zoom calls? Zero Distance thinks it may have the answer.
The company's Wehead device helps people at a meeting feel like a remote attendee is in the room with them.
The device looks something like a machine you might find at the eye doctor, but with screens on the front. The person participating from afar looks like they're there in 3D and when they look around or nod, the machine also moves.
Wehead works with standard computer or smartphone webcams.
“If there are a few people around the table and just one screen, not everybody can see the screen, and the person in the laptop, he or she is not able to see everybody," Wehead creator Ilia Sedoshkin said. “That's the obvious application.”
“But for people who spend like 40 hours a week in their home office, they don't see other people a lot. So feeling the real person in the room, using some space on your table, can give you less loneliness," Sedoshkin said.
The Wehead costs $1,555, with a pro version available for $4,555.
From milk tea to passion fruit, ADAM the robot can make any boba tea drink you like.
ADAM also can function as a bartender or barista, but it made boba tea for delighted CES attendees this week who used digital touch screens to select their drinks.
“ADAM is intended to be basically a way to attract guests and a way to make drinks fully
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