Aside from amateurs flying them, drones have many uses. One of the new uses will be to keep an eye on the Boston Marathon on Monday. A Massachusetts drone company has been tapped to fly tethered drones overhead for security. There also are a reported 5,000 law enforcement people on the ground.

A smartwatch for under $200 is being introduced. The Android Wear watch, the ZTE Quartz, has GPS and a reportedly longer battery life. Due to its connectivity of 3G, it will be availably only from T-Mobile and not from Verizon or AT&T.

Augmented Reality is coming to the automotive industry. As part of the concept of connected vehicles, AR can provide drivers with information without the drivers having to take their eyes off the road, since the data is overlaid onto what the driver is looking at while driving.

While voice is becoming a main interface for interactions with Internet-connected things, there's another potential interface on the horizon. NEw earbuds shown, at least in prototype form, can detect facial expressions and use them to trigger an action, such as answering a phone call.

After wearable darling Pebble was bought by market leader Fitbit, many thought that was the end of any support for current Pebble owners. However, a new update just came out so the watches are detached from cloud servicces, meaning the watches will still work when Pepple finally shuts things off, presumaby after this year.

Amazon is making it easier to get its Alexa to be operated, at least when it comes to Alexa skills. The change is that an Alexa user will not have to actually enable a skill before using it, which has been one of the obvios barriers to adding more skills to Alexa devices.

SK Telecom plans to compete with Google, Tesla and others in the race to develop an autonomous car platform. Such a technology platform could manage and analyze data, assist drivers and ultimately play a role in car sharing services.

Thanks to the Super Bowl halftime apperance of them, drones are much more in the public eye. While Intel has been a power behind drone fleets flying together, the chip maker is focusing on how to potentially use them to create a wireless infrastructure.

Being totally connected at home can have a downside. One consumer purchased a connected garage opener but was not satisfied with it. After he loudly complained online, the garage door opening company essentiallly locked him out of operating the garage door.

Just about anything connected can present a security risk. Now hackers from a securiyt firm in the U.K. are reported to have hacked and Internet of Things sex device that has a camera built in for streaming, well, private matters. However, the researchers found that the privacy could be compromised.