The Consumer Electronics Show is so packed with me-too gadgets that it's a blessed relief to see some pie-in-the-sky concepts. Especially when they come with colourful renders and ridiculous names. Meet the Asus Waveface family of context-aware gadgets.
The
Asus Waveface Light is a flexible tablet PC backed by flexible material - allowing it to be used as a conventional PC with (virtual) keyboard if you wish.
The
Asus Waveface Ultra is a web-connected bangle that monitors your physiological state and provides contextual information and services wherever you are.
And the
Asus Waveface Casa is a large widescreen entertainment center and internet portal with a flexbile cover that keeps small areas exposed to display contextually-relevant information.
And if Waveface sounds a bit far-fetched (except for the last one, which is a TV as far as I can tell) then don't forget that Asus recently announced is Eee Keyboard - a fully funcitonal computer with wireless HDMI built into a slim QWERTY keyboard - will be arriving in February.
Other CES stuff:
Watch our CES 2010 preview video and
read the preview blogRead about the B&O-designed, dual-trackpad (!) Asus laptopHands on with
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