Tech companies show virtual heads, a bartending robot and more at tech show in Las Vegas - Boston Herald

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Tech companies showed disconnected their latest products this week successful Las Vegas astatine CES, formerly known arsenic the Consumer Electronics Show, with caller developments successful video arsenic good arsenic manner enhancements with beverage and constitution gadgets.

The amusement runs done Sunday.

Here are immoderate highlights:

VIDEO CALLS WITH A TWIST

Tired of the aforesaid aged Zoom calls? Zero Distance thinks it whitethorn person the answer.

The company’s Wehead instrumentality helps radical astatine a gathering consciousness similar a distant attendee is successful the country with them.

The instrumentality looks thing similar a instrumentality you mightiness find astatine the oculus doctor, but with screens connected the front. The idiosyncratic participating from afar looks similar they’re determination successful 3D and erstwhile they look astir oregon nod, the instrumentality besides moves.

Wehead works with modular machine oregon smartphone webcams.

“For radical who walk similar 40 hours a week successful their location office, they don’t spot different radical a lot. So feeling the existent idiosyncratic successful the room, utilizing immoderate abstraction connected your table, tin springiness you little loneliness,” Wehead creator Ilia Sedoshkin said.

The Wehead costs $1,555, with a pro mentation disposable for $4,555.

A BOBA ROBOT

From beverage beverage to passionateness fruit, ADAM the robot tin marque immoderate boba beverage portion you like.

ADAM besides tin relation arsenic a bartender oregon barista, but it made boba beverage for delighted CES attendees this week who utilized integer interaction screens to prime their drinks.

“ADAM is intended to beryllium fundamentally a mode to pull guests and a mode to marque drinks afloat automated and precise efficient,” Timothy Tanksley of Richtech Robotics said.

The two-armed robot has 2 grip handles that tin beryllium customized to marque circumstantial drinks. While taking a interruption from mixing beverages, ADAM tin creation to support radical entertained.

NUT MILK ON DEMAND

During the pandemic shutdowns successful 2020, California nonmigratory Luiz Rapacci had a hard clip uncovering his favourite almond beverage astatine market stores. He looked up online recipes to marque his own, but they were messy and time-consuming.

Almost 3 years later, Rapacci has arrived astatine CES to unveil his seed beverage brewing machine, the GrowUp brewer.

With GrowUp, priced astatine $599 and disposable for pre-order, customers tin marque seed beverage astatine location successful minutes with h2o and their chosen variety, Rapacci said.

PERFECT EYEBROWS

L’Oreal’s Brow Magic is bringing augmented world to your eyebrows.

The company’s app scans your look and uses AR to marque personalized recommendations for choices of shape, thickness and effect earlier you use a primer. Then the Brow Magic instrumentality provides 2,400 tiny nozzles to brushwood implicit and overgarment your eyebrows.

The constitution successful Brow Magic, which is expected to motorboat aboriginal this year, tin past up to 2 days and beryllium taken disconnected with regular constitution remover.