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2021 GETS SMART

CES 2021 was not short of excitement, even if the year’s biggest tech show did happen on a website rather than in Las Vegas. Some big hitters revealed some very big hardware, and it gave a lot of smaller companies and startups a chance to show off their wares. When it comes to smart, CES showed that connected devices are bigger than ever, and we managed to find some particularly weird and wonderful devices among the noise. So this issue, we take a look at what’s going to make waves in the not–too–distant future, the products you might otherwise have missed, and a little that’s more pie–in–the–sky thinking.

Bear in mind that the latter designation applies to a lot of the hardware from this year’s CES, even more so than usual. In many cases we don’t

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