Bartesians Robot Bartender

The potential for full-life automation might be closer than you think. Robot bartenders, ice cream whenever you want within 2 minutes, and automated smart grills? Put on your hat Alfredo Linguine, today is the day anyone can become a chef, and you dont even need a rat to do it!

Chef AIs one-touch air fryer: All you need to do is put in the food that youre trying to cook, and the air fryer will detect the components inside and do its thing! Presumably available in September for $250.

Bartesians robot bartender: Capable of holding 4 types of spirits and automatically creates up to 60 different drinks. Said to retail for $369 later this year.

ColdSnaps no-clean ice cream: Automated ice cream within 2 minutes of cravings. Capable for the user to choose between multiple flavors before dispensing cold, creamy goodness.

Brisk Its easy-grill: I think you get the point. It does its job and you dont have to do anything.

With AI and automation, everything in life is about to get much easier. (AP News)

Wearables and performance-enhancing technology is starting to enter the scene.

Leave your physical limitations behind with Hypershells new Pro-X exoskeleton that makes hiking and traversing nature even easier. The device uses AI to sense your movements and adjust accordingly helping you carry more weight in your backpack, reducing strain on leg muscles, and weighs about 4.5 lbs or 2 kilograms. Users are said to be able to reach speeds of 12 miles per hour.

Another CES showcased product was the Evie ring. It is a discreet ring meant to track health primarily for women to track their period, ovulation, steps, sleep, mood, menstrual cycles, and many more metrics! A female analysts dream, Id assume. Evie says that the ring has 4+ days of battery life and orders are now open.

Looks like were one step closer to full-tech augmentation.

Whodunit?

An undergraduate senior at Columbia wanted to explore the truth on whether fingerprints were truly unique. He used a deep contrastive network and analyzed 60,000 fingerprints to find that different fingers of the same person shared strong similarities. Guo believes that this contradicted the notion that each fingerprint is completely unique.

In evaluation, the model had an accuracy rate of 77% when using one fingerprint from an individual to determine if another fingerprint belonged to the same person.

The practical use of this discovery in criminal investigations is debated, with some suggesting that it could help generate new leads in cold cases. This technology could potentially help solve very niche cases, where officials find one print at one scene, and another print at another.

Whether or not its practical, there is always the possibility that these researchers are on the right track in finding hidden patterns and features that humans may have overlooked.

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