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.

Lisa Montgomery - Contributing Writer

Lisa Montgomery has been writing about home technology for 15 years, with a focus on the impact of electronics on a modern lifestyle.