Samsung cooks up crazy prototype gadgets like VR camera necklaces, helmet speakers

 But we're not going to be able to buy these anytime soon. The gadgets and software come from its C-Lab that lets employees experiment.

This seems to be the week Samsung shows off cool gadgets we'll probably never get to buy.
First it demoed robots that sense emotion and voice-activated light switches. They're reference designs Samsung hopes customers will build using its Artik chips, not products it will sell on its own.
Then it displayed some crazy gadgets -- like a virtual reality camera you wear like a necklace and a communication device you stick on your helmet -- dreamed up by employees in Samsung's Creative Lab. The South Korean giant gives small groups of employees six months to a year to build their own product ideas, most of which will never be released by Samsung.
"Employees have some amazing ideas, but they have no use to our divisions," Chaehyun Yoo, assistant manager of Samsung's Creativity & Innovation Center, told CNET at Samsung's developer conference earlier this week here in San Francisco. "We didn't want those ideas to disappear" so Samsung launched C-Lab about three years ago to give employees time off their normal jobs to pursue their own interests.
Some of the teams will spin out as independent companies and launch their products on sites like Kickstarter. Others will never see the light of day. But Samsung used its developer conference to show off five projects C-Lab participants have been building over the past year.