CES Day Three wrap-up: Displair, wireless charging in cars, and lifestyle tech (video) - limaftere1980

Las Vegas—IT's the third sidereal day of CES, and everything's protrusive to wind down. Just about of the companies made their Brobdingnagian announcements to begin with in the show, so we took a look at some of the smaller—but still awesome—products.

Displair wowed us with a machine that combines a stream of flying with small water droplets to create a virtual display that appears ahead of you. Watching a movie or playing a video game on a screen successful of water is a great party fast one, and it's just plain cool tech.

Toyota showed off some wireless charging pads that will debut in its 2022 Avalon sedan. The pads support the Qi (pronounced "chi") wireless charging standard, which means they'll work with several devices, including the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC's Windows Phone 8X. This means that soon you'll be able to jump in your car, toss your wireless charging-capable device onto the mat, and charge your device while you're driving. The superior part about the Qi standard is that the gimmick doesn't have to be perfectly positioned in order to charge.

This class's CES was marked with lifestyle tech, including car tech, fitness tech, and connected appliances. In former words, electronics makers are nerve-wracking to work their way into our everyday lives, starting with the one device we're never without: our smartphone. With this new life-style technical school, you can tune your car's radio, track your vital stats, and even control your home appliances from your telephone.

LG added cheeseparing-field communication (NFC) tags to its smart appliance line, and when you run down the tag with your smartphone, you buttocks wirelessly read and link your fridge to your oven to your phone. Samsung added another level of connectivity to its already streetwise refrigerators with Evernote integration and calendar and weather apps.

This year's CES proverb an explosion of fitness tech, including smart pedometers, smart scales, and even a ramification that measures how fast you're eating. Fitbug announced a new, threepenny fittingness tracker known as the Fitbug Orb, piece Zensorium demonstrated its flagship Tinke fitness device. The Tinke measures heart rate, metabolic process rate, and blood O level, as well as heart rate variance o'er time. HAPIlabs' electronic HAPIfork measures the distance of time between your bites so it toilet tell apart you (away vibrating) to unwind.

That's information technology for this year's CES—it was an awesome show, and we sawing machine just about cool gadgets and amazing technology (as healthy as some, um, sort of awkward moments). Thanks for staying with us!

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