CES Gadget Show: Pizza from robots, underwater scooters

Robots were front and center at CES gget show in Las Vegas. One even me pizza.

 annual CES techlogy conference in Las Vegas runs through Friday and offers a forum for companies to unveil ir products and services for coming year.

Here are some highlights:

PIZZA ROBOT

Tucked away behind a concession stand, one robot was busy making overpriced pizzas for hungry crowds.

“It’s t b,” said McCord Fitzsimmons, who paid $7.50 for a pepperoni slice while robot worked behind register. “It’s kind of neat watching thing do its thing.”

robot, which resembles an assembly line, can churn out 300 12-inch pies in an hour. ( high price, though, has thing to do with robot’s costs, but captive audience at CES’ sprawling venues.)

Humans are still needed to make lunch. A worker with an iP tells robot what of pizza to make and n slides a frozen crust on conveyor belt. As crust goes down line, sauce, cheese, saus and or toppings fall from above and onto crust. A worker n needs to put pie in oven, take it out when it’s done and slice it up.

Picnic, startup behind robot, said it’s also assembling pizzas at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, where company is based.

Pizza shop owners can customize machine and d whatever crusts or ingredients y want.

Besides pizzas, Picnic said robot could be reconfigured to make wraps or sals for restaurants.

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CRUISIN’ UNDER SEA

Need a faster way to travel underwater? Sublue has your back.

company makes handheld scooters for underwater use. Just press two buttons for battery-powered motors to start, and you’re on your way.

Sublue’s scooters are mostly me for professional use — for divers or or underwater explorers. But company is working on a less expensive model for casual water venturers, one it expects will cost $500 to $600.

On CES floor, Sublue h a huge glass tank pool where onlookers gawked at a professional diver showing off scooters.

scooter comes with a strap so you don’t lose it. re’s also a mount for your phone, hopefully encased in a waterproof covering.

Land scooters have gained popularity in urban areas in recent years, garnering both praise for ir small size and ease of use and pushback for crowding sidewalks and streets.

At least underwater, re’s a smaller chance of traffic accidents — for w.

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How focused are you, really?

At BrainCo’s booth, people wearing hebands equipped with EEG sensors move toy cars around a racetrack using only ir minds.

company, which was incubated at Harvard Invation Lab, uses heband to convert electro signals into a numeric scale of 0 to 100 to tell how hard someone is focusing. cars moved faster as people hit higher numbers.

BrainCo makes hebands for athletes, including USA Weightlifting team, to test ir focus levels and get m in right he for training. company says that using mind games before workouts — and meditation afterward — can make athletes more effective, without altering ir training.

Tritionally, EEG measurements are used medically — but BrainCo says it collects more than 1,000 data points from heband, which it uses to measure person’s mental state.

BrainCo also sells hebands to schools so teachers can get a real-time look at how students are responding to lessons. But it’s t currently on sale for individual consumers.