Intelligent homes emerge as the most prominent: IFA 2015

Smartwatches, smart homes and drones that follow users wherever they go, are on display at the mega consumer electronics fair in Berlin, which opened to the public Friday.

These are some of the striking trends this year and innovations in the window of six days:

Smartwatches go round

Samsung, Huawei and Motorola collect spherical faces for their latest offerings SmartWatch, giving a very different look to Follow archrival Apple, which has a rectangular face.

Keeping track of emails, the water off the intake of caffeine or the number of steps taken in a day, are among the many features offered by smart watches.

SmartWatch Android manufacturers are hoping that their models regain some market share from Apple, which sends smartwatches four million worldwide in the second quarter, market researcher Strategy Analytics estimated in July.

Samsung had sent only 400,000 units in the same period.

Houses that run themselves

If there is one word to describe electronic appliances launched this year, would be "smart".

Home must be missing from refrigerators to washers coffee can all be connected to the Internet and controlled through an application on a smartphone.

Cuciniale Italy is showing a pot that receives commands from a smartphone, and can cook a steak to perfection - whether rare, medium rare or well done. And the will of pasta, of course, be al dente, according to the company.

Love plants but remember to water them? French company Parrot has a sensor that automatically waters.

Samsung Electronics has announced for its part, not only a line of smart appliances, but also a series of devices called "Smart Things", including outlets and a center that coordinates or goes with smart appliances.

His view is that the homeowner to schedule daily routines that can run the house on their own.

Moreover, certain tasks can be controlled remotely via smartphone - for example, opening the door from a distance when Grandma comes to visit, as usual, a half hour early.

3D Sound

You're sitting on your couch when you hear a helicopter ratata cut through the skies, a butterfly flapping in his ear or stomping of feet vibrating through a packed stadium - 3D sound adapted for cinemas now He is coming home.

Audio systems specialists Onkyo launches loudspeakers that send sound bouncing off the ceiling, producing the effect that approaches the listener from above.

3D Sound Labs has created headphones while "taking into account the shape of a person's head, ears and shoulders, and ... gives the impression to the brain that the sound is surrounding - back, front Right, left, up and down, "said the founder of the startup Renaud Seguier.

'Follow me' drones

For skiers who want pictures of themselves in action on the slopes, DJI drone camera manufacturer says he has the answer.

Among several new features for its series "Ghost" is a function that maintains the drone hovering over their user wherever he goes.

And if the drone loses the signal deviates from the set route, is another new feature called lock house that would have little buzz of unmanned aerial machine back home.

Back to basics Camera

The Polaroid snapshots pioneer returns to his roots with a digital camera that instantly prints photos - on special paper without ink.

The document called ZINK containing colored crystals that are invisible until you take a picture, working much like Polaroids old school.

However, the camera also has the advantages of a memory card that stores up to 32 GB of images.
If IT is not present would be complete without 3D printers, which have taken the world by storm, so anything prostheses to jet engines to jewelry.

In an attempt to whet the appetite for 3D printers, the Taiwanese manufacturer XYZprinting is showing in Berlin, which prints ... food.