Somebody Snuck A Potato Into CES 2020 To Make A Scathing Point About Useless Smart Gadgets

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The Smart Potato isn't a real CES 2020 product. But the point its inventor, Nicholas Baldeck, has about smart gadgets is a fair one.

I almost walked right by it. But then I realized the object the young man was holding up, apparently thrilling the small crowd gathered around his tinyThe vegetable in question looked like an ordinary, chunky Idaho spud, although protruding out of one side was some kind of antenna, a black plastic appendage bent upward. Close to the potato's surface, the exterior of the antenna became a thin, blade-like electrode that pierced the skin, clearly doing... something.

If the smart potato sounds like a big, stupid stunt, that's because it is. The man behind the idea, Nicholas Baldeck from France, told me he brought his admittedly ridiculous"invention" to CES to make a point about the torrent of smart gadgets at the show, many of which don't really solve problems at all.

Still, the fundamental silliness of Baldeck's product brings up the uncomfortable question of how he got into CES in the first place, since fake products and pure stunts don't align with the goals of the show. It probably helped that Baldeck has a real company, BDZ Labs, which does weather forecasting for paragliders.

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