The smart-tech future beckons to us from the CES gadget show

The International Consumer Electronics Show is set to begin in Las Vegas.

The auto show has been totally upended. GM CEO Mary Barra will be speaking at CES on January 6. By now, it’s significance is (somewhat) on the wane, as the big phone launches have mostly shifted to Mobile World Congress, which takes place about a month later, but you’ll still see big news about TVs, driverless cars, and this year there will nearly certainly be a fair sprinkling of companies showing of VR headsets and VR accessories.

As a hint to the continued importance of cars at the show, there are two major automotive execs who will be giving keynote presentations: General Motors chief executive Mary Barra and Herbert Diess, the chief executive of Volkswagen Passenger Cars. So eat your heart out, Detroit Auto Show. Other automakers including Peugeot Citroen, Honda, Mazda and Subaru are also considering adopting the software, Ford said in a press release.

Netflix also has a big announcement coming up, which will possibly include its plans for India, and YouTube also has an announcement, which could include everything from its content plans, to 4K distribution, and more.

CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada is right around the corner.

Drones are also expected to make a splash at CES, where an Unmanned Systems Marketplace has doubled in size from a year earlier to cover 25,000sq ft (2,300 square meters).

It was first mentioned by the company in 2014 and is now in the prototype stage.

Virtual reality, or VR, looks to be a major focus at this year’s conference.

The annual tech show features more than 3,600 exhibitors and is set to formally start on Wednesday.

Again, it’s important to note that there’s no telling just how much of a presence PlayStation VR will have at the show. As it does every year, the weeklong convention has gathered hundreds of companies from around the world, all pitching the “next big thing”. “We are going to see a lot of wearables, and more smart clothes than previous year”, Blau said in the report.Samsung and Google-owned Nest were also expected to make moves to be at the center of smart homes, where the market is vexed by the lack of a single standard or system for devices to speak with each other. We don’t yet know what this year’s new hilarious and questionably useful smart object will be, but there’s no doubt that one will appear.

CloudTag Track is a health and smartphone app that works in conjunction with a wearable device (acting as the “brain”) that constantly monitors users’ heart rate to produce highly accurate and personalised data and promotes fitness and nutritional advice via a smartphone to help individuals achieve their fitness and weigh goals.

The result should be better-looking smartwatches that have longer battery life, he says, as well as smart home devices that accomplish a few tasks well, rather than trying to do too many things at once.