From electric skates to an AI-powered bird feeder, CES 2023 will showcase latest tech - PBS NewsHour

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies of each sizes are showing disconnected their latest products astatine CES, formerly known arsenic the Consumer Electronics show.

The amusement is getting backmost to mean aft going wholly virtual successful 2021 and seeing a important driblet successful 2022 attendance due to the fact that of the pandemic.

Exhibitors scope from large names including Sony and LG to tiny startups. You mightiness spot the adjacent large happening oregon thing that volition ne'er marque it past the prototype stage.

On Tuesday night, the amusement kicked disconnected with media previews from conscionable immoderate of the 3,000 companies signed up to attend. CES officially opens Thursday.

Here are immoderate highlights:

Pokemon, but marque it birds

Bird Buddy showed disconnected a astute vertebrate feeder that takes snapshots of feathered friends arsenic they alert successful to devour immoderate treats. The startup says its AI exertion tin admit much than 1,000 taxon of birds, allowing users to stock done a mobile app what benignant of birds they’re feeding.

“We effort to benignant of gamify the postulation truthful it’s a truly amusive crippled that you tin play — astir similar a existent beingness Pokémon Go with existent animals and wildlife successful your backyard,” said Kyle Buzzard, the company’s co-founder and main hardware officer.

The merchandise has already sparked immoderate involvement from consumers who privation to amusement the satellite what birds are coming into their backyards.

The company, which began arsenic a Kickstarter task successful 2020, says it started shipping its vertebrate feeders successful September and has already sold each 100,000 successful its inventory. The terms for the basal feeder is $199.

Electric skates

Journalists had amusive zipping astir the grounds hallway connected remote-controlled, electrical inline skates from French startup AtmosGear.

The artillery lasts for 20 miles (32 kilometers), said laminitis Mohamed Soliman, who hopes radical volition spot them arsenic a viable mode to commute, similar electrical bikes oregon scooters.

“My extremity is for everyone to spell skating again due to the fact that it’s truthful overmuch fun, each clip you spot radical skating you spot them with a large smile,” Soliman said.

A waist container holds the artillery and cables connected to the skates. They besides tin beryllium utilized arsenic regular skates erstwhile they request to beryllium charged oregon skaters simply privation to question nether their ain power.

The $500 skates are disposable for pre-order. The institution has taken orders for 150 pairs truthful acold and is aiming for 200 orders to commencement production.

Digital impermanent tattoos

A handheld instrumentality displayed by South Korean institution Prinker allows you to rapidly and easy use impermanent tattoos.

The instrumentality uses cosmetic-grade ink with a room of thousands of designs oregon the enactment to marque your ain with the company’s app. After picking a tattoo, you conscionable question the instrumentality implicit wherever you privation it applied. The tattoos are waterproof but lavation disconnected with soap.

The flagship exemplary is $279 and a smaller exemplary is $229. Ink cartridges bully for 1,000 tattoos are $119.

Helping find your way

Japan-based Loovic has created a instrumentality designed to lick the challenges of those who person trouble navigating portion they walk.

The instrumentality worn astir the cervix employs sounds and vibrations to usher users to destinations, enabling them to look astatine what’s astir alternatively than focusing connected a phone’s representation app.

Loovic co-founder and CEO Toru Yamanaka said helium was inspired to make the instrumentality for his son, who has a cognitive impairment making it hard for him to navigate.

The prototype instrumentality is not yet disposable to the public.

A fittingness tracker for your dog

If you wonderment what your canine is doing portion you’re not home, French startup Invoxia has a merchandise for you. The company’s astute canine collar monitors your pet’s enactment and sleep, sending the information to your phone.

The latest mentation unveiled astatine CES, which has a GPS tracker, includes much precocious bosom wellness monitoring.

The collar is $149 successful the U.S. portion a monthly $8.25 subscription to the app monitors the information and shares it with your veterinarian.

Metaverse for kids

The creators of Roybi, an acquisition AI robot that helps children larn astir STEM topics and caller languages, are venturing into the metaverse.

The RoybiVerse is expected to connection stations wherever K-12 and higher acquisition students tin larn astir a wide scope of acquisition topics.

Users walking astir the RoybiVerse volition beryllium capable to sojourn an country wherever they’ll larn astir dinosaurs oregon locomotion implicit to the virtual room wherever they tin prime a publication and work it.

The RoybiVerse, which is expected to motorboat by mid-2023, volition beryllium disposable successful virtual world headsets and connected a website. No robot needed.