Las Vegas, Nevada - The biggest tech show of the year is a place for spitballing bizarre ideas to see what sticks to the wall. Now that CES 2022 is winding down, here's a roundup of what the future holds.

The range of robots and gadgets on display this week was dizzying, but let's start with the cutest and most useful inventions – like the mechanized pets that nibble on your fingertip in a calming way.

The Amagami Ham Ham is based on the Japanese word for comforting and playful biting from small animals and baby humans.

Sure, it's bizarre, but also charming.

On the more practical side of the event, Boston Dynamics is well on its way to making robots useful for more than just amusing videos on YouTube. They unveiled their chunky, human-shaped robot Atlas, and the audacious addition of a grabber arm to its dog-like four-legged robot, Spot.

This is where robots start to get a little unnerving. Because who doesn't think of a robot uprising when they see a big, grabby arm attached to a lumbering, hulking powerbot?

There were other dystopian robots in the tech show's lineup, too. Ameca, a human-shaped robot that has basic artificial intelligence and facial expressions, looks scarily real and completely uncanny.

Ameca even reacts to its environment with opinions – like not being particularly pleased about a human trying to boop its snoot.

The uses of these many robots will include inspecting hazardous areas and cargo, holding your cooled beverages, or simply providing companionship. Nothing to worry about there, right?

CES 2022 also focused heavily on making virtual reality and augmented reality a part of your average day, both at work and while you play.

Sony rolled out its brand-new PlayStation VR2 headset, which ups the game for playing in virtual reality.

Heru released the re:Vive VR/AR headset for health purposes, which lets users scan their eye health and vision from home.

There were also new takes on using VR and AR in combination with haptics, which is the techie way of saying "touching things." This year's conference introduced strap-on vests that pick up full-body movements, and fingertip nodes that might replace VR controllers.

The realm of VR/AR was also a major part of the show, where the marketing buzzword "metaverse" reared its poorly understood head.

The term was thrown around a lot at the tech show, but so far, there is no interconnected virtual space that you can access from anywhere with any device that works similarly to the internet.

Instead, the word will probably continue to be a marketing slogan slapped on tech gadgets to make them sell better. (Note to tech PR teams: Saying things are part of the "metaverse" still doesn't make the metaverse a thing.)

Yet, one of the more positive trends that needs to be implemented into society as fast as possible is the rollout of more electric vehicles, in more shapes and sizes.

CES 2022 shifted the movement into high gear this year, with luxury EVs from carmakers that aim to make going electric cool and good for the environment.

And for that extra dash of spice, BMW decided that what you really need to show off your fancy new electric car is the ability to change its paint color instantly. Its newly debuted BMW iX M60 quickly shifts from gray to white, and back again.

Even if only a few of these new ideas end up out in the world for consumers, they are sure to shape your everyday life – from how you get around to how you kick back and relax. Here's hoping we see more electric cars and less "metaverse" in our future.