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Bathroom TV, digital menu

source: abc.net.au

Bathroom TV by German firm ad notam allows you to monitor your stock portfolio with a wireless beamer projected onto the mirror.

A waterproof remote control can join you in the bathtub.

Also at the fair's "smart textiles" exhibition is a pair of ski gloves from O'Neill that lets users operate their mp3 player in their jacket pocket as they schuss down the slopes.

Meanwhile, a new digital restaurant menu may make sluggish service a thing of the past.

"Papeo", short for Portable Assistant for Personal Electronic Ordering, means guests no longer have to wait for the waiter to place an order but can use a touchscreen to communicate directly with the kitchen or the bartender.

"Papeo not only takes and forwards orders and writes up the bill, it can also entertain customers at their tables or flash advertising," Ludwig Hitzenberg of the University of Regensburg in southern Germany said, which developed the technology.

Austria's Urban Tool has developed a potential solution to cauliflower ear from chatting on the phone for hours with the perCushion, a pillow with an integrated telephone and a built-in, long-lasting battery.