A few of our favorite things: The coming year's most thrilling technologies[ Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:14:03 GMT ]Every January, reporters on the tech beat kiss their families goodbye and surrender a week of their lives to the concrete fauxtopia of Las Vegas, in exchange for knowledge of the things to come. This year, at that Consumer Electronics Show of which I speak, we saw forks that track what you eat, robots that cling to windows, chairs that block out unwanted noise, and other wonders.