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The article begins like this: Alongside the dozens of razor-thin TV sets and ultra-fast smartphones populating Samsung’s booth at the world’s largest technology trade show are a couple of washers and dryers. The company hopes you’ll buy them in part because they come with a nifty perk: You can control them from your Samsung phone… Even with some 20,000 new products due to be unveiled at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, this year’s instalment of the tech industry’s biggest trade show isn’t about selling you a single device – it’s about selling you an entire ecosystem.
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Robert K. Logan
Chief Scientist – sLab at OCAD
Prof. Emeritus – Physics – U. of Toronto
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