Often we get excited about new technology because it’s different from what we’re accustomed to or because it does something completely new. Sometimes those technologies end up seeming like solutions in search of problems. Real innovations, however, are those that solve existing problems, not create new ones.
Here are six new products we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show that can be problems solve tech problems, from the basic to the extreme.

Home theater, automated lights and a high-tech fish tank.
Home theater, automated lights and a high-tech fish tank.
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