2015: The Introduction To Smart Automobiles

The Consumer Electronics Show 2015 saw almost all big automobile manufacturers showcase their latest innovations and ideas for our future driving. Like you would have guessed from the title of this article, most of the cars have systems that are considered smart.

Now, what can they do? They have a lot of features like, calls and text integration, voice commands, parking assist, self driving, and of course infotainment. By now you must have also guessed the hub for all these features is your phone. Many companies are vying to make the standard operating system in these smart cars including Google and Apple, the latter whom has been whispered to be looking into the arena of smart cars too.

As this is only the beginning of officially smart vehicles, don’t throw away your hard earned driving license yet. Self driving cars are not yet feasible for the next few years as their are safety and legal laws and principles that need to be looked into. However, other helpful features like the internet connected car system that can give you up to date traffic information and of course real-time news are already out for grabs in the newest cars.

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We at Computer Potato really do give kudos to these car companies and everyone looking into backing this good idea, as this could mean cars would be much safer when it kicks off and no more DUI worries for those nights when you just had a bit more to drink!

 

 

Meet Belty, The Smartest Belt in Jan 2015!

We all know that moment when you eat too much and your belt feels too tight, or when you sit down and you suddenly feel the cold metal belt buckle press too tightly on your skin.

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Now you can avoid the uncomfortable moment, automatically. Yes automatically! We introduce you to Belty, the smart belt that will solve this issue for you and tell you a lot more about your waist line and day to day activities.

The official website boasts “Belty helps you enhance your overall wellness as well as your comfort throughout the day.” It achieves this by many sensors it has inside of it that monitors and tell you how many steps you have taken daily and your expanding or reducing waistline. As always, like all the smart devices, it correlates the information it gathers and displays it on your phone for your analysis.

The Belty App
The Belty App

 

We at Computer Potato do no think smart belts are the direct future, however, one thing is for sure this innovation will set the trend for more smart wearable items that will give more information about our daily lives.

Stay Happy And In Shape With The HapiFork

We have recently spoke about the smart chopsticks (click here) that tell you of toxic ingredients in your food and how much of a good idea it is. Computer potato is proud to present to you the Hapifork by an inventor Jacques Lépine

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The fork tells you when you are binging your food and alerts you to eat slow which can help you with staying in shape, prevent gastric reflux, digestive problems and postoperative operations according to the product’s website..

The Hapifork recently got coupled up with a companion knife and the pair got a new name this year; 10SFork.

 

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We at Computer Potato think this is another innovation that has potential in the realisation of the Internet Of Things (click here) and stay tuned as we bring you more of the future in the simplest form of news!