The 10 WEIRDEST Gadgets

The year's biggest tech event has come and gone. Here's our pick of the weirdest gadgets that caught our attention

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The biggest tech event in the world, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), takes place every January in Las Vegas. Each year the focus falls on the latest marvels, from medical devices to flying machines, increasingly with artificial intelligence built in. But there's always another, arguably more interesting, category of gadgets on display at CES: weird tech.

Each year, the exhibitors unveil a raft of strange devices. Some of them are genuinely useful, others are questionable (at best).

Here are just a few of our favourite examples from this year's crop...

1. AN AI-POWERED BIRD BATH

Birdfy Bath Pro £205, birdfy.​com

Whether you just like birds generally or are a committed twitcher (that's a dedicated bird watcher, believe it or not), this device might appeal to you. It's a birdbath with a built-in camera.

It's not the first time birdbaths and cameras have been combined, so what's different now? In short: artificial intelligence (AI).

With the help of AI, this birdbath can recognise and record different species of birds, and generate daily highlight reels for you to watch.

Each month it'll also report back on how many birds have used the bath, what the rarest bird was and other bird-related stats. Whether you're comfortable getting all this data from having AI spy on bathing birds is up to you, however.

2. A mirror that keeps an eye on your health

Withings Omnia ETBC, withings.​com

Withings makes a range of sleek health-monitoring tech, from smart scales to smart watches, via sleep analysers. Its latest venture is the Omnia. Unveiled at CES, it's a concept product, intended to give us a hint at what the future of home health tech could look like.