The 5 Best Gadgets and New Tech of CES 2016
- PARROT DICSO:
Drones made a huge splash at CES this year, but the biggest standout was the Parrot Disco. Parrot has already been made famous for its entry level drones, but the Disco looks and feels like something else entirely. The Parrot Disco has two wings that let take off more like a kite than a traditional drone. With just a toss in the air, the Disco can pick up enough momentum to stay afloat. This thing can also fly at speeds up to 50mph, stay up for as long as 45 minutes, comes with a 1080p camera at the nose, and has a number of assisted flying modes.
2. FARADAY FUTURE FFzero1 CONCEPT:
Making its big premiere at the show was a new company called Faraday Future. It showed off its new high-performance concept car, the FFZero1, which looks as close to the Batmobile as we’ve seen in an actual car. It’s fully electric, claims a 0–60 speed in less than three seconds, and can travel over 200mph. Even though the FFZero1 is just a concept car, we can’t help but eagerly anticipate what kind of car Faraday Future will actually be putting into mass production as soon as later this year.
3. EHANG PASSENGER DRONE:
Lots of drones made appearances at CES 2016, but none quite like this. The Ehang Passenger Drone isn’t for taking impressive video or even something as fanciful as delivering packages through Amazon — it’s for you. The Ehang Passenger Drone wasn’t available for taking flights at the show, but the whole concept of an all-electric helicopter that can navigate itself to a destination with you inside got us really excited to see this thing in action.
4. RAZER BLADE STEALTH:
Razer has been trying to build the ultimate gaming Ultrabook for the last few years, but 2016 might be the year it’s actually succeeded. The Blade Stealth is everything you’d expect to see in a new ultrabook-type machine from Apple or Dell — it’s slim, fast, and fairly inexpensive. The kicker though is that the Blade Stealth also comes with an integrated graphics card that can supplemented by an exterior graphics card called Razer Core, which will deliver those desktop-level graphics that it was never able to power by a laptop before.
5. CHEVY BOLT:
The biggest thing holding back the electric car industry these days is price. Tesla paved the way, but the new Chevy Bolt is bound to be the most significant electric car since the original Tesla Roadster and Tesla Model S. After the $7500 tax credit, the Bolt will come in under an astounding $30,000 and is pretty close to a modern hatchback in terms of looks. The Bolt also comes with a 10.2-inch touchscreen on the dash and a few other bells and whistles. It’s not as flashy or fast as something from Tesla, but at that consumer-friendly price it’s hard not to see it as the future of fully-electric cars.
source: pastemagazine
