While many products are unveiled at the major Las Vegas tech show, they are far from all being useful. Some are even downright strange.
Like every year, CES in Las Vegas is an opportunity to discover many products, some of which are unexpected and unusual. Tech&Co offers you a selection of these amazing devices.
· A robot vacuum cleaner with a mechanical arm
Called Saros 270, it was designed by Chinese manufacturer Roborock. This robot vacuum cleaner is equipped with a mechanical arm to pick up and move obstacles (socks, tissues, etc.) when cleaning. It can detect and capture them using its two cameras.
In addition to the 108 objects pre-programmed in the Saros 270, the user has the possibility of adding 50 more in the mobile application, so that the robot vacuum cleaner recognizes them, using AI, and puts them away at a defined location when they come across them.
In addition to cleaning, the Saros 270 can serve as a companion for your animals. It can take photos of them during its cleanings, but also allow the user to check in on them with video calls using the camera located on the front. At the moment, no information has been disclosed regarding its launch or price.
· A “toaster” that charges your smartphone
Looking like a toaster, the Swippitt is far from it. This is a power system for recharging your smartphone. For this, it is composed of a Swippitt Link, a case with a 3,500 mAh external battery which recharges the phone wirelessly.
Once the smartphone is equipped with this case, the user can insert it into the Swippitt Hub to change the battery. This, in just two seconds. The Swippitt Hub is in fact equipped with five batteries charged and ready to be exchanged.
Both the Swippitt Link and Swippitt Hub are available for pre-order, with a welcome discount. The shell is priced at 84 dollars instead of 129 dollars, and the Hub at 280 dollars instead of 500. The first shipments are planned for June 2025, only in the United States for the moment.
· A perfume diffuser computer
Being embalmed while working on your PC. It’s not very useful, but Asus did it. The Taiwanese manufacturer showed its Adol Book 14 Air Fragrance, presented in China last summer. It’s the world’s first computer to scent your workspace.
Designed in partnership with the Anna Sui brand, this laptop PC diffuses perfume through its logo. Logo into which it is possible to slip a leaf infused in a perfume and which can be changed. The Adol Book 14 Air Fragrance actually comes with three fragrances to choose from (Be a New Her, Basil and Mandarin and Rose of Man’s Land).
In addition to the perfume, which is diffused gently to spread a good smell, this laptop PC has a 14-inch Oled screen, with an announced battery life of 14 hours. Powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 chip, only its price in China (around 930 euros) is known.
· A robot that clings to the bag
A little furry robot that some will find adorable and others will find creepy. Clinging to the strap of a handbag or backpack, Mirumi “spontaneously turns her head to glance at a person nearby,” says its designer, Yukai Engineering.
It’s not for nothing that he turns his head when someone is nearby. Mirumi was “designed to recreate the joyful experience of people seeing a human baby trying to interact with them.” As a baby, he is a little shy, so he can hide his face if people touch him, but he also knows how to express his curiosity.
At the moment, Mirumi is not yet available. Yukai Engineering plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign in fall 2025 to commercialize its little furry robot, with a price tag around $70.
· A funny keyboard
Called AutoKeybo, this device was designed to prevent you from having to move your hands to access the different keys. This, by switching from an alphabetical keyboard to a number pad and a touchpad after detecting a slight hand gesture using an AI camera.
Once it “sees” the movement in question, it deploys one half of the alphabet keyboard to the number pad and the other half to the touchpad. And, these retract to make room for the two paving stones with the same movement of the hand.
Apart from the keyboard and the two pads, the AutoKeybo includes a base on which the user must rest their forearms. It includes a Linux PC to connect the device to its computer via a Bluetooth connection, but also HDMI and USB-C ports. The AutoKeybo is expected to be available in the first quarter of the year, priced at $699.
