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Intel shows off a light-up smart mug

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In addition to all the usual stuff (tablets, Ultrabooks, what have you), Intel’s CES booth includes a tablet full of… coffee mugs. Yep, mugs. It’s a bit strange, at first, to see so many photographers crowded around, taking hands-on photos of a porcelain cup. But then you notice the LED lights. Using a companion app, you can program the lights to display numbers, letters and smiley faces, in different colors. Additionally, Intel is showing a demo of it working with an internet-connected baby onesie, in which the lights on the mug pulse to match up with the child’s respiratory patterns.
via Engadget

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