The Best and Worst From CES 2013

CowboyRobot writes "InformationWeek has collected what it considers to be the five dumbest ideas presented at this year's CES. The list includes: 'The HapiFork is an electronic fork that tracks how many mouthfuls of food you consume during a given meal, how many seconds pass between bites, and how long the meal took to complete.' Also on the list is the iPotty, which is about what you would guess from the name. And for balance, the list of the seven standout technologies includes 3M's 84-inch touchscreen display and Parrot's $300 'AR Drone 2.0, a gravity-defying spectacle that puts yesteryear's remote-control helicopters to shame with its ability to dive, spin and whirl through the air.'"

oh good...

[phil_aychio]

my USB-enabled smart enema bag didn't make the top 5

Re:Silly names...

[Skiboy941]

From wikipedia: "He is typically depicted as a man with a large belly wearing a loincloth, having long hair and having pendulous, female-like breasts." So the fork is to prevent you from getting fat and getting man-titties?

Re:Why didn't the second list make it onto the fir

[c]

If this is the best innovation in electronics has to offer, I think I'll go find a cave and some rocks to bang together.

Be careful with that rock banging thing. If anyone hears your rocks, there's a good chance that you'll be infringing on a mobile communications patent.

Re:Standout vs Dumb

[NatasRevol]

Capacitive nerf gun bullets for those who won't (or can't) be bothered to get up.

Re:The 4K tablet.

[0xdeadbeef]

But that's bigger than the iPad! Nothing can be different than what Apple does, that is the surest sign of failure. I mean, look what happend to 7" tablets. They did not succeed until Apple made one.

Re:CES is to Electronics Pros as

[wonkey_monkey]

Christmas is to Christians and Earth Day is to Environmentalists.

Over-commercialised, bereft of its original meaning, and just a big pain in the arse for the rest of us?