Smart Camera

More than 17 million US households now have chickens. The world's first smart Coop, which is an ideal gateway to help novices raise chooks, has now rolled out Cluck Talk, which can tell you just what your chatty birds are saying to each other and to you.

A team from UC San Francisco has demonstrated the potential in using a smartphone camera to diagnose type 2 diabetes. The technique needs no additional hardware other than a smartphone camera, and is over 80 percent accurate in detecting diabetes.

Over the last few years we've seen a big trend in regular household objects being turned into gravity-defying, levitating marvels. The latest device to float onto the scene is the Moon – a smart camera with a wide array of extra features.

Samsung has added to its Smart Camera 3.0 family with by announcing two further models at CES 2014. Most impressive is the WB2200F, which features a 60x optical zoom coupled with a 20mm ultra wide angle lens.