CES 2020: Goldmines or Gimmicks?

The largest technology conference in the world, CES covered 2.9 million square feet of Las Vegas for four days this January. With over 4,500 exhibitors and 180,000 attendees there’s quite a lot of competition to get noticed. From the start-ups at Eureka Park to the heavyweights of automotive at the Las Vegas Convention Center, these are just a few of the great new ideas, trends and technologies to expect in 2020 and beyond. And a couple of the questionable ones too.

My favourite place to start is Eureka Park because at my first CES I went there last and realised fast that was a big mistake. Here ideas, risk, and occasional brilliance converge with over 1,200 start-ups and entrepreneurs debuting their dreams incarnate.

Health tech has been on the rise for a while, but this year it seemed to be everywhere. There were some weird ones, like a wearable device and app that sends you alerts when it thinks you should go to the bathroom. But then there were also things like IASO by WellsCare that addresses an old problem in a new way. The IASO is a wearable device for…