A handbag robot, as big as a candy and capable of reading minds. Here is the latest ready-to-wear frontier of artificial intelligence. It’s called Omi and it’s the novelty that the Based Hardware startup brought to the Ces in Las Vegas which showcases an avalanche of gadgets and prototypes.
The mini device is a kind of personal assistant: it summarizes conversations, creates to-do lists, helps plan meetings. And it can – according to the company’s founder, Nik Shevchenko – be attached to the temple and used as a “brain interface”. Because it’s a listening device, to address privacy concerns, the company made the project open source so you can see where your data goes and choose to store it locally. The project is suggestive but we are waiting for the market launch to understand if it will actually work.
The Las Vegas event, founded in 1967, has increasingly become a hotbed of technological oddities over the years. And he doesn’t deny himself this year either. Mirumi also made its appearance at the Consumer Electronic Show, a small robot-plush that can be attached to a bag: it is designed to be shy and thanks to integrated sensors it can hide its face if it is touched.
On the subject of sustainability, Acer has created a computer made entirely from oyster shells (Aspire Vero 16). For the more untidy, help can come from a robot vacuum cleaner that has an articulated arm that can pick up laundry from the floor while absorbing dust.