Always getting smarter? The trends of CES 2017 - Imagination Technologies

With the dust firmly settled on this year's CES we thought we'd take a look back at the show to see what stood out in terms of overall trends, with AI, security, connected cars, VR, AR and drones all making their mark. Did this year's show have the X-Factor? Well, to be honest it was probably more'The Voice'. The big shout, so to speak turned out to be Amazon's Alexa voice assistant, which seems to have broken out of its Echo cage and made its way into a wide variety of devices, from a number of third-party speakers, to'smart' fridge's and autonomous cleaning robots . However, while Alexa is the current poster child for smart AI, it has clearly has a long way to go to becoming truly smart.