Withings Activite Pop Withings paired down its $450 Activite smartwatch and fitness tracker into the more colorful $150 Activite Pop. Made of PVD-coated metal, the face comes in black, blue, and tan, with a variety of different straps to choose from. It retains the same features as the original, though: step tracking, sleep tracking, vibration alerts, and an eight month battery life. Alex Washburn / WIRED
MyBrain Technologies Melomind Nothing says "let's quantify my chill mode" like a Bluetooth-equipped helmet. This relaxation measuring skullpiece comes straight from the streets of Paris, using EEG data from its sensors to report how chillaxed you are. The sidecar app creates music from your brainwaves, of course. Due in late 2015, it'll cost around $280. Alex Washburn / WIRED
Rollkers These battery-powered wheeled soles slip onto your shoes, and they're designed to get you where you're going 7mph faster. They're different from those other skates because they're designed to kick in with your regular walking motion---a similar feeling to a moving walkway with no training or hospital visits required. Due in late 2015, pricing is still TBD. Alex Washburn / WIRED
MyBrain Technologies Melomind Nothing says "let's quantify my chill mode" like a Bluetooth-equipped helmet. This relaxation measuring skullpiece comes straight from the streets of Paris, using EEG data from its sensors to report how chillaxed you are. The sidecar app creates music from your brainwaves, of course. Due in late 2015, it'll cost around $280. Alex Washburn / WIRED
SleepPhones Headphones in bed are fine if you're lying on your back, but the second you turn sideways, things get uncomfortable. Not so with SleepPhones. This fuzzy headband hides disassembled headphone guts, and while the audio quality won't be great, it's perfect for a late night Netflix sesh. There's a wired version ($40) and a Bluetooth-powered wireless one ($100). Alex Washburn / WIRED
Smarter WiFi Kettle There's all these smart coffee pots lately, but tea drinkers have waited far t-oolong for kettle innovation to start brewing. This app-enabled teapot offers temperature controls and pre-boil options via your smartphone. If you prefer coffee, Smarter makes a coffee machine that you can control with the same app. Alex Washburn / WIRED
Brio Smart Power Outlet Fingers and electrical sockets don't mix. Brio is a smart power outlet that can prevent shocking mishaps and save you money too. It only delivers power when something is plugged in and requires electricity. The basic safe outlet costs $50, or you can upgrade to the $100 smart outlet that works with Brio's other home monitoring solutions. Alex Washburn / WIRED
XYZPrinting Food Printer What's better than a 3-D printer that can print chocolate and sugar? A 3-D printer that can print cookies! Input designs via USB, or select one from XYZPrinting's catalog on its 5-inch touchscreen. They can be up to 200x150x150 mm in size, and may need to be baked afterward (unless you want to eat raw cookie dough). Alex Washburn / WIRED
Connected Cycle Smart Pedals Most folks that hop on a bike just want to get from Point A to Point B and make sure their bike isn't stolen in the process. Connected Cycle's smart pedals replace normal flat pedals and include GPS and sensors so you can track your speed, distance, elevation, and whether the bike starts moving when it should be locked up. Alex Washburn / WIRED
Zensorium Being There's tons of gear that tracks steps and sleep. Being, a $200 smartwatch coming this spring from Zensorium, aims to record a more slippery data point: your mood. Using an optical sensor to follow blood flow in your wrist, the company claims the watch can tell when you're calm and when you're stressed. An app then lets you see how those readings line up with other factors like sleep and activity. Alex Washburn / WIRED
Sengled Light Bulbs Smartphone-controlled lightbulbs are soooo CES 2012. But the LED specialists at Sengled have a novel approch to making sure their bulbs stand out. One lightbulb in their line doubles as a speaker and another houses a video camera. The most useful might be the Boost: a $50 Wi-Fi repeater, extending your network to the more remote corners of your home. Let there be light—and bandwidth! Alex Washburn / WIRED
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—The show has barely begun, and we’ve already seen enough weird and wonderful tech to fill a house. And that’s precisely the point of many of the items on display here at CES; New devices for smartening up your home are plentiful. We’ve seen kitchen appliances, lighting systems, and electrical conduits that are designed to be safer, to consume less power, and to be controlled via mobile apps.
Of course, wearables are everywhere as well—of the dozen or so pieces of wearable tech we saw on the very first day of the week-long show, a few caught our attention. Like the watch that not only counts your steps but can also quanitfy how cranky you are, or the full-size helmet that measures your brainwaves to determine your level of “chill,” emitting soothing music if you need to calm down. Yes, mood rings are back. Only now, they strap onto your noggin and play smooth jazz.
See all of our favorite products from the first day of CES in the gallery above.
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