Weird Products From CES 2011: The Strangest Gadgets At The Consumer Electronics Show

Some of the new gadgets on display at the Consumer Electronics Show were terrific, others were terrible, and still others were just bizarre.

We've rounded up the strangest products we found at CES 2011. Amid more standard fare like tablets, smartphones, and 3D TVs, we found everything from electronic cigars to tweeting fridges.

Check out the weirdest gadgets from this year's enormous tech expo in the slideshow below. Are there other unusual products you saw at CES? Add them to our slideshow by clicking "Add a Slide."

 

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[bwright85]

04:59 PM on 01/12/2011

Do we really need a refigerator that you can send a "Tweet" from?...and honestly, my sweet tooth is more excited about the Mini Reese's cups more than anything else! lol

[Michele Weiner-Davis]

03:23 PM on 01/12/2011

Nothing about the wireless cooking soup makes sense to me. But I bet it's delicious.

Weird gadgets are cool, but CES is so much more than that.

http://techcocktail.com/what-happens-at-ces-observations-from-a-ces-virgin-video-2011-01

[looneytoonsxp]

03:04 PM on 01/12/2011

Samsung's new refrigerators can actually be really useful but have they taken it to far by connecting a refrigerator to Twitter? I understand social media has consumed our lives but has it gotten to the point that we can't escape from it no matter where we turn??

http://kikin.com/blog/social-media-nowhere-left-to-run

[Pandoras Folly]

12:59 PM on 01/11/2011

self toasting grill cheese sandwiches are just on the horizon. Just break the seal activating genetically engineered microbes that heat the sandwich to perfection.

[farmerlady]

11:59 AM on 01/11/2011

The Dynamics card and the embrodiery machine have a future, and if I had to pick one it would be tough but I would go for the embrodiery machine if it were an improvement somehow over the good ones already on the market.

The rest of these thingees are the result of venture capital "angels" with more money than investment sense.

I can't imagine what some of the pitches for these products were like.

[GetoffMylawn]

11:22 AM on 01/11/2011

I have a T Pain right now... going to the dentist tomorrow

[AristophanesJones]

10:53 AM on 01/11/2011

Oh sure, guys, downvote the the cute baby seal robots for children's hospitals and nursing homes but put the super-awesome credit card that makes going into debt three times easier in the #2 spot. :P

[farmerlady]

12:00 PM on 01/11/2011

Somehow I find using robots to soothe children and old people very, very depressing. And I can't imagine it would work very well. But hey, as long as healthy people don't have the burden to care for the sick, right?

[ArtCarnage]

05:56 PM on 01/11/2011

If one less card to carry around keeps my wallet from exploding like George Castanza's, I'm all for it.

[Edward Standley]

10:25 AM on 01/11/2011

Maybe some of this technology will find it's way into something useful. Maybe.

[moonflowerjewelry]

09:51 AM on 01/11/2011

The idea that technology makes our lives better... just a lot more things that will find their way to landfill.

[copelli21]

09:35 AM on 01/11/2011

Technology run amuck.....it ain't a good thing.

[Tunghoy]

12:47 AM on 01/11/2011

I'm not sure I understand the waterproof vibrators. Don't all vibrators have to be waterproof?

[TexanResistance]

09:56 AM on 01/11/2011

There is sometimes a series of buttons or even an "external" battery case that may not be waterproof.

[vinny]

10:36 AM on 01/11/2011

for a minute i thought your avi was tungboy

[Tunghoy]

04:47 PM on 01/11/2011

That's what I tell the ladies................

[WSAY]

11:45 PM on 01/10/2011

Leave it to the post office. This is the same organization that tried to increase the cost of the postage stamp again this year. The Democrats wouldn't hear of it, but they would've done it if they could have. I can see where their money is going now. It

[Tunghoy]

12:45 AM on 01/11/2011

After being self-sufficient for decades, the Post Office is facing record deficits this year and beyond. Would you prefer they make up for it with tax revenue? Or with deliveries only 3 days a week? Most of their price increases are for commercial mail, which is much higher volume than First Class, but it still isn't enough.

[mikeyaz17]

09:36 AM on 01/11/2011

um.. the post office should be spending money on IT and R&D... its what every business does, why slam them for that?

and all i know is that i put a stamp on something and it gets to where its supposed to... sounds like good service to me

[WSAY]

09:42 AM on 01/11/2011

Been to the post office lately? Take a look at how long these people work for salaries approaching 100K a year. Not good service at all.

[rmaenza]

11:28 PM on 01/10/2011

There is always strange and unusual products at CES. Only maybe 10% make it to production.
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[Anna Marks]

09:01 PM on 01/10/2011

There were a lot of wacky solar-powered electronics, like the solar-powered iPod speakers: http://www.energyinyourlife.com/article.php?t=100000188

[CAHertzfe]

08:53 PM on 01/10/2011

LELO ONO Cleo Waterproof Vibrator? What you sit on it while computing? Waterproof, why? Ok ... someone has a bigger imagination than I have.

[Dastius-Krazitauc]

10:50 AM on 01/11/2011

I googled it, and it is designed to be used in the tub or shower.

[Colin Hanna]

09:50 PM on 01/12/2011

I managed to snag a free one, and they're pretty cool little gadgets. Rechargeable too!