CNN at CES: ‘Rows and rows of health and wellness startups’
January 10, 2019 by Steven M. Peters
Brian Stelter toured the floor. This is what caught his eye.
From Thursday’s Reliable Sources’ email blast: Hello from Las Vegas.
I don’t need a smart voice assistant embedded in my bathroom mirror. Or do I? That’s what you start to wonder. Apple, Amazon and Google’s voice platforms were omnipresent. I mean, I’m pretty sure I don’t need a voice enabled kitchen faucet. But… maybe? Around the corner, a “parasol automation device.” A voice-controlled umbrella? Sure, why not…
Hopefully someday soon the word “smart” will just be assumed about all these products. If it’s not smart, it’s “connected:” Motion detection cameras, GPS trackers for pets, personal ultrasounds, robot companions, connected bike helmets, voice powered rings, digestive trackers, digital assistants for drivers. Personally I was most intrigued by the rows and rows of health and wellness startups. Tim Cook‘s quote from Tuesday came to mind: “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ It will be about health.”
My take: I know Tim Cook has been getting a lot of mileage out of that quote, but color me skeptical about whether a) Apple can make us healthy and b) That’s how historians will remember Apple.
Buy hey, I wasn’t there. I used to attend CES long ago, when Time Magazine paid my way. I would leave after a day or two, angry and dispirited. So many bad ideas! So much wasted money and effort!
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