The party was dull this year in Las Vegas, Nevada (United States). The largest electronic innovation show, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), closes its doors on Friday, January 10, without a flagship product standing out. Review of the least soporific innovations.
AI glasses
If there is a device more suitable than a smartphone for communicating with artificial intelligence (AI), it could be smart glasses, a product with a strong presence at CES this year. Loomos, RayNeo, Mustard, Halliday… Several brands competed with each other. In a possible future where, when leaving our house, we would frequently speak to an AI, it would be consistent to do so with the lowest possible sound volume, through a microphone positioned as close as possible to our mouth – which is what glasses allow well.
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Even if it means receiving information from an AI at any time, we would benefit from doing so discreetly, from a speaker stuck to the ear, or even directly on our retina, thanks to a mini-image projector – even if we can have serious doubts, in the short or medium term, about the desire of the general public to converse with their glasses in public. We would be just as surprised if people who do not usually need them were enthusiastic about the idea of having a pair, especially since these glasses, rarely fitting, are very thick and offer a limited choice of frames.
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