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" Humans and gadgets haven&amp;#039;t entirely fused, but the tech companies at CES are working to improve the relationship between people and the electronics they love. The more ways for you to interact &amp;quot;naturally&amp;quot; with your appliances and screens, the better (and the more ways for those devices to interact with us). And so gestures now control TVs, computers respond to voice commands as if in stunted conversations and smartphones link to pretty much everything. As our options for interacting with gadgets proliferate, we also expect the screens we encounter to do everything. It&amp;#039;s not enough for a TV to be just a TV anymore, or a camera a camera. The TV has to help you prepare dinner and the camera has to run mobile apps. So, even as tech companies pump out more and more screens, they want any single one of those to do everything the others can. There were screens upon screens at CES, most aiming to do everything at once\u2014supporting the tech market&amp;#039;s notion that if you have to stand up to grab a different device, you might as well give up and, say, read a book. To get a grip on these intertwined trends, I dashed around the show yesterday to scope out the gadgets with the most interface options. One company trying to make many devices that can all do the same things is Polaroid; the company&amp;#039;s new products are a heavy-handed attempt at remaining relevant, but they might actually do the trick. Like Samsung, Polaroid now makes an Android-powered camera: an 18 MP point-and-shoot with interchangeable lenses that run on Jelly Bean, as do Polaroid&amp;#039;s tablets, albeit beneath a somewhat annoying Polaroid skin. Putting Android on a camera is one way to make sure photos can hit the internet, and computers, and tablets, and so on, in no time at all. Nikon takes a different approach with a lineup of cameras including a beautiful upgrade to the Nikon 1 line, the J3. The new entrants gain Wi-Fi when connected to small dongles. A smartphone linked to the dongle acts as a hotspot, sending images from the camera to the web. It can also become the viewfinder for remote-controlled framing and shooting. Despite Nikon&amp;#039;s Android-free take on connectivity, the OS really is key to many of the omnifeatured gadgets at the show. Archos, for instance, launched the $169 GamePad, a 7-inch PlayStation Vita-size handheld gaming platform that runs on Android (and is, in tune, limited by scarce game selection). To turn a touchscreen game into a traditionally played one, the user can assign physical buttons to specific on-screen actions. On the other end of the touchscreen-size spectrum is Mitsubishi, which teamed up with Cybertouch to make a 55-inch HD multitouch screen. It&amp;#039;s pretty and overwhelming and hard not to touch, but it&amp;#039;s also pretty useless for any regular consumer. Mitsubishi was one of the few multi-market manufacturers not showing off new 4k TVs. More often than not, those TVs respond to gestures, smartphone input, and good old-fashioned remote controls. Some, like the Samsung model we awarded an Editors&amp;#039; Choice Award, even recognize your face to track your viewing habits for recommendations. But what caught my eye (besides Sony&amp;#039;s outrageously beautiful and outrageously priced OLED display) was actually RCA&amp;#039;s $299 8-inch travel TVs, complete with a telescoping antennas sent straight from the 1990s. It&amp;#039;s a tough sell, but because the TV is also a full Android tablet, it might be able to carve out a niche in the tablet market. Perhaps CES struggled to produce standout new categories or must-have-now products this yet simply because each gadget is so much like every other, whether it&amp;#039;s an oven or 7-inch tablet. We&amp;#039;re already supposed to communicate with people through our gadgets, and now we&amp;#039;re supposed to now communicate with the gadgets themselves. The conversation&amp;#039;s a bit rough, but the introductions have been made. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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