Your Talking Toothbrush

Internet-connected scales and beds are among the high-tech gadgets being previewed at this week's Consumer Electronics Show. Is there no end to what parts of their private lives that people will share over the Internet?

NPR reports.

Questions...

•How might a person use an Internet-connected scale?

•What are other everyday items that might be connected to the Internet?

•If every new car becomes a 4G Internet hotspot, how does that change the idea of what a car is? And what if the car can drive itself?

•Does all this Internet connectivity matter to advertisers? How?