Move over Mother of Dragons, CES 2014 just introduced us to our new favourite semi-maternal figure-- "Mother," a motion-sensing device promising to be nothing less than the Mother of the Internet of Things.

Looking like a cross between a Russian nesting doll and girl robot EVE from Pixar's WALL-E, Mother does like mothers do and follows all one does. To do so she uses "cookies," small wireless motion and temperature sensors. The idea goes that users attach cookies to any objects, and in turn Mother keeps track of habits and warns of changes.

Among the examples developer Sen.se (founded by Nabaztag creator Rafi Haladjian) gives are checking whether a door is open or closed, keeping track of how much coffee is being drunk or even making sure one is brushing their teeth well. Cookies communicate with both Mother and to each other via wifi, and in turn the Mother unit does the digital equivalent of nagging through the medium of smartphone alerts.

An Indiegogo campaign proposes a next step in wearable electronics-- the Smarty Ring, a high-tech stainless steel ring armed with a built-in LED display, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity and companion smartphone app.

Like smartwatches the Smart Ring promises to display incoming caller IDs, text messages, social network updates and even the time. It should also handle smartphone control, with hardware buttons for accepting/rejecting incoming calls, making calls to preset numbers, trigger camera, control music or change user profile.

It even acts as a phone tracker-- if the smartphone is over 10m away from the ring it triggers an alarm-- all from a rechargeable (via wireless induction pad) 22mAh battery supposedly powering 24 hours of use.

Customers wanting a more physical representation of their digital lives might find the Nimbus Smart Dashboard worthy of purchase-- a 4-dial dashboard designed to display data from any number of sources via physical speedometer-style needles.

Looking like something out of a muscle car dashboard, the Nimbus connects to the Wink smartphone app and gathers data such as commute times, email volume, social media activity, calendar appointments and FitBit stats.

Open source electronics vendor littleBits teams up with electronic instrument maker KORG and launches the littleBits Synth Kit-- a stripped down MS-20 analogue synth as broken into snap-together components.

The kit contains 12 modules-- 2 oscillators, envelope and filter units, keyboard, 4-step sequencer, random noise generator, 2-channel mixer, delay effect, power source and speaker. Each component is colour coded (blue for power, pink for input, green for output, orange for wire) and carries magnets on either side for easy snapping in a specific direction.

Users can combine components from multiple Synth Kits (as well as other littleBits products) to create many different instruments. Once finished, users can connect the results to recording or live sound equipment.