From floating speakers to new-age roller skates to the Apple Watch, 2015 promises to be a vintage year for gadgets. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas offered the first glimpse of the year's best gadgets, including drones, connected cars, a range of smart home technology designed to make everyday life more convenient and quantum dot televisions, which promise better color and lower electricity use in giant screens. This Rollkers transportation device prototype attaches to the bottom of your shoes and allows for faster transportation based on walking.
One visitor to CES is pictured here wearing an Oculus VR virtual reality headset and Beyerdynamic GmbH headphones demonstrating Arkamys Co. sound technology.
Intel's spider-like Hexapod robots were designed by University of Arizona graduate student Matt Bunting, and are more than a little scary .
But if they're not humanoid enough for you, Toshiba's ChihiraAico robot certainly is. Designed to look and speak like a human being, ChihiraAico's goal is to "achieve real heart-warming communication with human-like facial expression." Creepy.
Jeeyeon Oh from South Korea shows a picture taken of her and a friend on the Polaroid Socialmatic instant print camera
The Axxess CE Air2 floating Bluetooth speaker attracted a lot of attention, but has no official release date as of yet.
Mercedes Benz unveiled the F 015 Luxury in Motion, a conceptual self-driving car which is undoubtedly flasher than Google's.
Stig Severinsen, the free-diving champion and world record holder for holding his breath tests the Masimo vital signs monitor (on right finger) as he holds his breath during a demonstration
Electronics giant LG revealed its latest smartphone, the LG G Flex 2. Following in the footsteps of the curved G Flex, officially unveiled in 2013, the smartphone has been ergonomically designed to feel as comfortable as possible in the hand.
The G Flex 2 is expected to be released in South Korea by the end of the month, before being made available to the rest of the world around February
The 'Green Cube' by Chinese company XYZ Printing is a hydroponic box that allows lettuce and other vegetables to be grown anywhere in an accelerated growing climate
Barry Po, director of product management at Ngrain Canada Corp., controls an Epson BT-200 augmented reality headset manufactured by Seiko Epson
Samsung's SUHD TV, unveiled at CESM runs on Tizen OS and can display over 1 billion colours.
The Apple Watch is due to go on sale in April and demand is likely to be extremely high. The Apple Watch Edition, seen here, will cost £13,500
The Vigilant Rainbow toothbrush connects to a smartphone to keep records on brushing and allow for interactive games
Takuma Iwasa from the Japanese company Cerevo Inc. shows off a snowboard with sensors that indicate a number of factors including load, balance and flex
French start-up Emiota unveiled its smartbelt Belty, which tracks less obvious health and fitness features including the daily fluctuation of your waistline.
Michael Perry (R) flies a DJI Inspire 1 flying remote control quadcopter, with 4K video camera and three-axis gimbal. The platform is a sophisticated filmmaking system straight from the box, said DJI's Randy Braun. The system retails for $2,890.
A 3-D portable printer by Chinese company ZXY Printing shows off its wares
Takuro Yoshida, chief executive officer of Logbar Inc., demonstrates the company's Ring wearable control device
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