Gadgets – Technologies 2023- In the midst of the semiconductor and chip crisis, when customers are sometimes waiting months to receive their ordered cars or electronics, it seems a bit superfluous to talk about what gadgets and new products will mark the year 2022.

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But a few of them are too interesting to overlook. Sure, not all of them will change the world, but each of the ones below has a chance to launch at least one fad. All were presented at CES 2022, held this year in a rather sober atmosphere, with only 30% of the audience of the years before the medical crisis.

And they all point to a future in which we are increasingly lazy and increasingly monitored.

1. The light bulb that watches over you
Light bulb stay lit, light bulb, we love you! Maybe that’s how we’ll soon have to sing to the light bulb, considering that it will measure our pulse, body temperature, how we sleep, and even monitor our other “vital signs” through radar technology.

The makers of Sengled Smart Health Monitoring Light assure us that a network of such smart bulbs spread around the house could help monitor lonely and elderly people, and even detect if the person falls and stops getting up. After seeing the bill in the light.

2. The dog-like robotic coffee table and the ultra-lazy vacuum cleaner
Robot vacuum cleaners are already a reality in many homes (and as addictive as washing machines or dishwashers once were). At the next level will be the robots that help you with household chores: robots to assist elderly people or simply smart tables that bring you things around the house.

The Labrador Retriever is sure of this, and some of its uses are detailed in the presentation video: it practically becomes a companion for any job you don’t feel like doing, and in the case of those with reduced mobility, it allows the continuation of a life as close as possible to normal. I, for one, am eagerly waiting for the bed that changes its own bedding.

Speaking of vacuum cleaners, the latest generation of Roborock (S7 Max V Ultra) comes bundled with a stand that automatically empties a week’s worth of trash, cleans its mop, and supplies it with water for about that time—for the ultra-lazy . Sure, the robot already knows how to do so much that I’d bet that the first robot vacuum cleaner revolution is about to begin.

3. The Scale of the Future Scans Your Body and Tells You How Wrong What You See
After your meal is brought to you by the tabletop robot and the house is vacuumed by the robot vacuum cleaner, the logical step is to step on the scale, the perfect tool for depression. But the Withings Body Scan is not just a scale.

It includes a scanner with which you will be able to scan your torso, arms and legs to see the percentage of fat and muscle, but also functions that estimate vascular age and can detect atrial fibrillation through an EKG or even peripheral neuropathies. Fortunately, it comes bundled with a fitness assistant and deliverables that are easy for doctors to interpret, so it’s likely to gradually become as ubiquitous an accessory as the current scale.

4. Air Pix Selfie Drone
– Selfie Drone – If you want to be super annoying in 2022, then this micro selfie drone is the perfect gadget. You launch it from your palm, it floats about one or two meters away and it is able to take pictures of you or the group you are part of by itself. We’re not told if it’s also good for conference calls, following you around the house in the middle of a meeting, but if they realize there’s a big need for something like that, I suspect they’ll update the product with those features as well.

5. 5G smartphone
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Nokia Communicator E7, but Astro Slide 5G, because it’s 2022, not 2010, right? The idea is exactly the same and, perhaps especially considering the death of the Blackberry brand, some crazy people had to be found to bring it back to the discussion: a smartphone with a physical keyboard, which you reach by sliding the screen.

If you’ve been missing big keys, the Astro Glide 5G promises to have them close at hand
Will it do more fleas than all the other attempts? I do not know. But it’s looking good, and it’s far exceeded the funding request on Indiegogo, raising 2.2 million Euros from over 5,300 people, so who knows?

6. The John Deere 8R Autonomous Tractor and Garden Robots is a tractor that can be driven by a farmer. Or it might not be driven by the same farmer, who neatly schedules his route, closes the door behind him, and goes off to do something else, possibly a show about farms.

The farmer is no longer in the field, he is in the server room
The truth is that autonomous functions exist in abundance on modern tractors, but the 8R tractor is the first that is capable of working the field alone. It has six pairs of stereo video cameras that allow it to see and enough processing power to analyze its surroundings through its artificial intelligence software. Its functions can be monitored and managed from the farmer’s phone. Soon, in Dobroești and Cuca Măcăii.

If you don’t have half a million euros lying around somewhere, you can also look at the increasingly versatile garden robots, such as Naio Oz, able to weed, weed, sow, assist you with garden chores or even to transport you various things to and fro.

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7. The laptop with a foldable screen: the future or just a fad?
Zenbook 17 Fold OLED UX9702 – this is the name of the laptop with a foldable screen presented by ASUS at CES 2022. A 17-inch screen is combined with a detachable keyboard – nothing new here. It’s just that the screen itself can be folded, so you can work directly on it, like a flexible tablet without a keyboard. Useful? Caprice? Customers will decide.

What exactly a curved screen could be used for remains to be seen
Idea: We’ll probably gradually return to newspapers if the flexible screen gets thinner and thinner and can be folded, à la Minority Report, hm?

8. The TV camera that scolds you if you’re too close
While the bulb monitors your heartbeat during the show, the video camera on your new Sony TV will be able to react to your hand signals to turn the TV off or on, turn it on pause or adjust the volume. From the experience of other systems that detect gestures, these functions may be rather a source of nerves, especially if you are used to gesturing while you speak.

From now on, you’ll wave your hands in front of the TV, but don’t stand too close
But the video camera also knows if someone is sitting too close to the TV (and darkens the screen to force them to move away), or if they leave camera (reducing brightness to save power). Of course, it also knows how far away you are and automatically adjusts the brightness and volume for the perfect experience.

9. Telecomanda care se încarcă de la undele routerului tău
Samsung vrea să economisească zeci de milioane de baterii în fiecare an, așa că se tot preocupă să folosească tehnologii noi pentru a-și alimenta telecomenzile televizoarelor sale. După ce anul trecut a prezentat telecomanda care se încarcă de la soare, anul acesta a prezentat Samsung Eco Remote, care se încarcă de la undele radio ale routerului tău Wi-Fi.

99 million batteries saved in 7 years with the previous version, a noble goal.
Obviously, as these will not be enough, it can also be charged from sunlight or, if necessary, from the USB-C port. But in the near future there will be versions that will also use kinetic energy to recover enough energy scraps to eliminate the need for AAA batteries for these devices found in absolutely every home in the world. Smart move, Samsung.

10. The BMW iX color-changing car
is in many ways one of the most advanced cars in history (maybe it’s the most advanced at the moment, but that position changes from month to month), and the trick the Bavarians brought to CES 2022 it seems unimportant, although spectacular: the Los Angeles prototype could change color at the push of a button.

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But I mention this last gadget because it involves a technology that we will definitely encounter in the near future not only on cars (it’s a bit difficult to explain to the people at RAR what color the car is), but especially inside our homes, on walls and furniture.

Briefly, an electrophoretic film containing microcapsules with a diameter similar to that of a human hair was applied to the car body. Each capsule contains a different pigment (white, black, or color), and when an electric field is applied, the color of the entire assembly changes.

If this sounds familiar, it’s basically the same technology found on e-readers. But applied on a large scale. Parting theme: imagine what it would be like to customize your apartment with the colors or images you want, according to the mood of the moment, turning it into a huge virtual space.

This is what the future looks like.