Elmar Frickenstein, senior vice president of driver environment and electrics and electronics at Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), speaks at a news conference during the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 5. Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

In Tuesday's print edition of the American-Statesman (still available from friends who keep their paper longer than a day!) and on MyStatesman.com, you'll find my Digital Savant column rounding up recent SXSW Interactive announcements and giving you the bite-sized stuff should know from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

Here’s an excerpt from those take-aways:

5. Home automation. The wired home has been beset by confusing, competing products and overpriced gear that under-delivers. This is the year electronics makers should get their act together on the Internet of Things or shut up about it until at least 2017.

You can read the full column here, which also includes a bonus tech definition I totally made up.