Aside from the paper-thin OLED TVs, entry-level DSLRs and lightweight laptops from Dell and Samsung, the great majority of the products unveiled at CES 2017 weren’t actually things you could buy in the near future. They were prototypes. Some were cool: namely Toyota’s semi-autonomous Concept-i car, Razer’s three-display gaming laptop Project Valerie, and Sony’s Xperia Projector that turns any tabletop into a computer screen (more or less). Others, not so much. Below you’ll find some of the most bizarre products — both prototypes and otherwise — we saw at this year’s trade show.
Sensorwake Oria
The Oria is sort of a hybrid between a Keurig and Glade PlugIn. It’s a bedside device that uses scent capsules (think Keurig) to help users sleep in a specifically scented room. Sensorwake, the company behind Oria, says their patented scents are designed to help people fall asleep faster and get a better, deeper sleep. So far there are only two patented scents, ambiguously named “Restore” and “Relax.” It’s unclear what either smell like.
Hushme
Dubbed the “world’s first voice mask for mobile phones,” the Hushme is a Bluetooth headset that covers your mouth with two magnetically connecting pads. It’s meant to allow people to talk on their Bluetooth headset without disturbing other people in the room — the pads muffle the sound. The Hushme also has external speakers that can play music so eavesdroppers can’t listen in on the conversation. But this would obviously be incredibly annoying to anybody else in the room.
