Moflin, a cuddly pet robot, was one of the rare, weird gems at CES 2021. The Qoobo furry therapeutic robot acts as a substitute for a pet to help people cope with loneliness during the ongoing pandemic.

MQA the company behind the MQ3410 Cassette player is now thought to be making MQ3420 Cassette Replacement.

Internet of Things, here I come… The Carso watch appeared on the stage to promote its vision to bring car driven communications to the world.

Bellovtion, a maker of hybrid drive units, showed a proposal to drive cars with battery powered hybrid drive units. The scheme would give a daily drivers a budget up to 97% of the cost of diesel fuel by 2020.

Kik for Business – the brain child of Mike and Markey Kipnis was once asked by Oprah Winfrey how he was going to lure in more mobile commerce users by his simple method of converting his personal smartphone into a smart and customisable smartphone. The answer was the simple and effective Kik for Business app. The app is very free with higher levels of customization being possible. More information is available here.

The Mandela Effect — the wormhole theory

Virtual reality is the most exciting technology at CES this year. The ZUK Z1 and QGEN Q5 Android hybrids will seemingly just create all of the next generations of VR experiences. With Android 8 Oreo we will see Google start working on RNAC technology that allows visually inferior phones to display high resolution graphics.

It seems like CES' Virtualization balls are almost ready to drop. Cyberpsychophobia anyone? Trippy displays with the likes of augmented reality and smart watch glasses? Check out this can of worms as we open the chute.

One More Thing — Concur® will be the first "one off" product created exclusively for CES 2018. In our opinion the Concur® product delivers a high-quality keyboard that fully integrates with your smartphone. The keyboard reskin has styles and contain buttons inside to allow you to type in more tasks, parts of texts, place both the keys on the screen or just visual task because you can swipe SMS back and forward.

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We're talking about a lot of interesting things. And since CES is full of tracking cameras this year to watch around LA will definitely be worth a trip. For everything about CES check out our Guide.

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