A breathalyser that spots Covid-19, a robotic massage table, and an ultraportable electric wheelchair are among the many bizarre inventions unveiled at CES 2022. The event is being held in person in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as online for people who can't travel - with tens of thousands of ideas, concepts and products on show. The massage table, by Massage Robotics, has two arms and responds to verbal commands in real time, but it has a whopping $310,000 (£228,000) price tag, and was just one of a number of relaxation devices on show at CES this year. Covid-19 is present throughout the event, including in the absence of some major companies such as Amazon and Google, but it is also present in the purpose of a number of products on display, including a breath analyser that detects the virus. The annual event runs until Saturday, and MailOnline has created this roundup of some of the weird and wonderful inventions revealed by firms large and small.

Kevin Ashton didn't take the usual route into computing. The man who coined the term "the internet of things" actually studied Scandinavian literature at the University of London. He now lives in Austin, Texas, and is one of the foremost thinkers on exactly where the internet is taking us and how it will impact on our everyday lives. In a recent interview he envisioned that in "25 years we'll be able to live in Edinburgh and commute in our self-driving cars to London via a trunk road designed especially for the purpose, at speeds of up to 250mph." Well, maybe… but one thing is for sure: I'll still be stopping for a bowl of delicious home-made soup at Tebay services in the Lakes.

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