IFA 2020: seven best new gadgets, from an 8K TV with a camera to a smart indoor garden to an ultra-compact workstation

Europe’s biggest tech show had plenty of innovations for home and work use, including an extraordinary-looking workstation PC, the Bleu Jour Move2

You can swap your kettle for an eco-friendly immersion heater that also charges your phone, and monitor the calories your cat burns as it exercises on a wheel

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The Greenbox smart indoor garden by startup BerlinGreen showcased at the IFA 2020 in Berlin. Not only does it grow herbs and salad leaves, with controls in an app, but “it’s also a cool lamp for your home”, BerlinGreen chief executive Filip Wawrzyniak says. Photo: Jamie Carter

Published: 6:45pm, 4 Sep 2020Updated: 6:55pm, 4 Sep 2020

The exhibition halls at IFA Berlin – Europe’s biggest tech show in the German capital – may have been much quieter than usual, with 4,000 visitors instead of the usual 200,000-plus, but they were still bursting with new technology.

These were among the most eye-catching among the eclectic gadgets on show.

The Little Cat’s cat exercise wheel

If there’s one thing cats can’t resist, it’s laser-light pointers – that’s the theory behind this exercise wheel for obese cats. It uses your pet’s temptation to chase a point of light to get them to move. The brainchild of South Korean manufacturer The Little Cat, it comes with an app that lets you control where the light appears and how fast it moves. It also lets you know how far your cat has run, and how many calories they have burned.

The Little Cat cat exercise wheel is an exercise wheel for obese cats. Photo: The Little Cat

Greenbox smart indoor garden

Are you worried about another lockdown where you find supermarket shelves devoid of greens? Plant your seeds in Greenbox, which start-up BerlinGreen claims is the first “truly smart” indoor garden.