While some amazing new tech was unveiled at CES last week, there was also the usual crop of impractical, silly, and downright weird. BRYAN TURNER rounds up the worst on show
Pods have to be simple to be sustainable. Simple is filling a pod with ground coffee. What’s not simple, however, is combining ingredients for a soft-serve in a pod. ColdSnap’s new ice-cream machine works off pods, which are cooled down to create a single serving of soft serve ice-cream. Although the device is a CES Innovation Award Honouree, Twitter users have expressed criticism about the machine’s lifespan: if the pods stop being produced, one is left with a big machine that doesn’t do much. We’ve seen this time and time again with food/drink pods: if the pods aren’t simple to produce (i.e. if generics can’t be made easily), they don’t last very long on the market.
I think this is going to fail, based on the price (both for the main unit, and the individual servings). But what do I know? I’m still waiting for the home cheese-making machine I backed on Kickstarter a few CESs ago.#CES#IceCream#Coldsnaphttps://t.co/VzEh0xGnW3
Start-up Family Self Care has created SelfCare1, a robot that dispenses blended essential oils that are personalised to each user. In the face of Covid-19, science-backed medicine is more important than ever, which is why this device seems so strange to launch now. Nevertheless, this device dispenses pleasant-smelling essential oils for the low price of $300 and $70 for the refill cartridges. If one wants a non-peer reviewed medicine device, this is the device to get. But, really?
