Top techs preview CES 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017... CES isn't the only game in Las Vegas this week. For the true down-and-dirty technophile, the real action is at the International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) – and The Reg got a sneek peek at the geek freak that commences while CES concludes. The ICCE, under the umbrella of the Institute of Electrical and …
If a washing machine's only USP is its ability to email/sms when it is done.
Frankly some of that list have to be marked as either
The totally useless
or
The totally obvious
Where are the developments in WiFi that stop channel collisions? Why aren't they doing frequency hopping? etc etc.
When every home in a 300m radius has their own WiFi setup and most of them on the same channel using it at peak times is a like going back to 28.8kbaud modem days.
Getting that sorted rather then messing around with range which will only make things worse would be a far better USP that that load of tosh.
"Jet Packs, Hover Boards, Skyways, and robot butlers of course! (for the consumer, not just proof of concepts)"
But this conference was only predicting out to CES 2018 ... as anyone from the "Tommow's World" generation knows the items mentioned above will all be available in "about 10 yeas time"
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