CES 2022 was, as usual, packed with announcements, but this year was relatively tame. Panasonic’s wearable gaming speaker, the SC-GN01, was perhaps the daftest device we encountered in our trawl, but this virtual affair was full of exciting glimpses of the near future. Thankfully, the first few days of CES have not been as buzzword-laden as years past, although Yukai Engineering’s Amagami Ham Ham finger-nibbling cat comfort toy proved that headscratchers still make it through. Despite all the crypto hype, the blockchain crowd was almost reserved, and the drones on show seemed to have much more focused purpose – with Skydio’s autonomous cinematography something of a highlight. Metaverse might have been the most leapt-on new term, with Panasonic’s Shiftall subsidiary…