The state of tech in 2018

AS we enter into a new year, most of us will try and transform ourselves into a better version of the person we were the year before.

Going to the gym, taking up a new hobby, learning a new skill, working on new friendships (especially the gym one, which like all new year resolutions, kind of peters out after a few months or so), we all strive to put our best foot forward to take on the challenges ahead.

Over on Technology Avenue, things aren't much different. Old products are made new, while new products are made better. When was the last time you saw a phone or a computer last a full year before something better and faster came out? In the capitalist, consumerist technology world, failure to innovate almost certainly guarantees banishment into the realm of obscurity. It is why, at the beginning of the year, the extravaganza known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes the world by storm, offering up all manner of electronics from steady, iterative examples of existing tech, to outright wacky and wonderful technological bonanzas.