LAS VEGAS — The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the biggest tech events of the year.

Industry analysts, company exhibitors, tech enthusiasts and media members all converge on Las Vegas at the beginning of each year to show off and see the latest and greatest tech products.

There were some impressive announcements from big companies this year (LG literally rolled out an OLED TV, and Google and Amazon integrated their AI assistants into a bunch of different products).

KSL.com wandered the CES showroom floor to show you some of the coolest products that may have gone unnoticed. Here are the top nine:

Countertop dishwasher

Are you tired of washing dishes by hand but don’t really have the room (or the money) to buy a dishwasher? Or do you live alone and dirty dishes wait for weeks in the dishwasher before it’s finally full enough to run?

Heatworks’ Tetra countertop dishwasher solves all those problems. It’s small enough to fit on your counter and doesn’t require any plumbing. Just plug it in, put some water and soap in the bottom, load your dishes and turn it on. They’ll be clean within 15 minutes.

You can even control the process through an app and choose the water pressure, control cycles and a start time. The clear design of the dishwasher is meant to give the washer an artsy feel, and doesn’t look out of place in your kitchen.

You should be able to place your pre-order (for the special price of $299) for the Tetra sometime in the beginning of 2019. Click here to keep up-to-date on the dishwasher’s progress.

Translation earbuds

We live in a changing world. Differences in language used to be a barrier for communication, but not anymore — and we’re not talking about Rosetta Stone.

Timekettle Technologies' WT2 Plus translation earbuds truly are a marvel. Though they’re certainly not the only ones out there, they do handle a variety of different scenarios that other competitors do not. Two earbud wearers can speak for about 15 seconds at a time while the earbuds translate back and forth. A wearer may also use the earbud to play a translation from their phone for someone who isn’t wearing the earbud, like, say, a taxi driver.

So far, the earbuds handle about 21 languages with 15 more to come. They also accommodate different accents and have noise reduction technology that blocks out ambient noise. You can pre-order the earbuds here — they retail for $219.

Laundry-folding device

Do you despise folding laundry? Join the club. The Foldimate is a nifty little device about the size of an office printer that folds your laundry for you as you feed your clothes into the machine.

It requires more hands-on labor than the Laundroid, but it’s cheaper, smaller and most likely closer to release. The target price is $980, and the company hopes to release the product by the end of 2019. Sign up for FoldiMate’s pre-order waitlist here.

Pregnancy monitoring band

Owlet’s new pregnancy monitoring device, the “Owlet Band” is a device worn around a pregnant woman’s belly that tracks the baby’s heart rate, sends the mother-to-be wellness notifications and trends, automatically counts kicks, tracks contractions, records and listens to the baby’s heartbeat, tracks the mother’s sleep and offers good sleep position suggestions.

The Utah-based company won an award for CES’ best wearable this year for the band, as well as an award for the Owlet Smart Sock which tracks a sleeping baby’s vitals, giving parents peace of mind.

The band is meant to be worn once a pregnant woman reaches 24 weeks of pregnancy. The device will most likely be released in late 2019 and may cost around $300 (though there’s not a set price yet).

Solar cow

The “Solar Cow Project” is designed to incentivize parents to send their children to school instead of keeping them at home to work during the day.

The South Korean solar energy company gave a Kenyan school a cow-shaped solar panel with dozens of portable batteries that students can plug in to charge when they come to school in the morning then take home to their families at the end of the day.

At the rural school, it’s usually a four- to six-hour walk to the nearest charging station. Now families have access to electricity at night if they send their child to school that day.

Speaker thermos

If you want to rock out and stay hydrated at the same time, try iHome’s iBTB2 Aquio Bluetooth Waterproof Removable Speaker Bottle, which is exactly what it sounds like.

The thermos doubles as a waterproof bluetooth speaker and keeps drinks cold for up to 24 hours and hot for up to 14. The device is available in four colors for $59.99.

Diabetes wearable

In late 2017, the FDA approved the first system that does not require adult diabetics to prick their fingers to monitor their glucose levels. As one user in Utah noted, the device is a “total game changer.”

Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre allows diabetics to insert a small wearable into their upper arm for 14 days as it tracks their glucose levels on a small, hand-held device. Diabetics now no longer have to prick their fingers every day but simply insert a wearable that will give them real-time information about their body.

Smart home system

The smart home market is fairly fragmented. Most customers don’t buy all the same brand of smart home devices for their house, so they may have several apps to control everything.

Brilliant’s Home Control is kind of like the brain for all your smart home devices. Just replace one of your light switches with the Alexa-enabled device, and you can have touch and voice control of lights, music and other smart home appliances at the tip of your fingers or the sound of your voice.

Ask Alexa for news, weather and keep your favorite settings in “scenes” to set the mood for waking up or dinner time. Just install the device in your light switch, connect to Wi-Fi, and Brilliant will begin detecting your smart home products.

A 1-switch device costs $299, and prices rise from there.

De-stress wearable

The TouchPoint wearables are two little square devices that you wear on your wrists (or on any two sides of your body) that can help you de-stress and focus. They vibrate back and forth on your wrists, lowering your cortisol levels and helping your brain focus on one thing, rather than jumping between various distractions.

The wearables are based on recent neuroscientific research and are especially helpful for those with ADHD, ADD and PTSD, though they’re meant mainly as a de-stress device for anyone who needs a little calm in their life. The cheapest pair are $150.

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