During CES 2012 today, Sony announced a brilliant set of accessories that warrant some attention. The Smart accessory line brings convenience, integration and quality to new accessory levels, but we’ll let the accessories themselves explain all that.

Sony Smartens Up CES

Sony has brought to the CES table some Smart devices – specifically, a Smartwatch, a Smart Wireless Headset Pro and SmartTags.

The Smartwatch is one of the latest in wrist notification devices that make fumbling for a ringing or vibrating mobile phone a thing of the past – mostly. At least, users don’t have to fumble to find out who is calling or sending a message or an email.

The Smartwatch, the successor model to last year’s LiveView model, is dust- and splash-resistant. It also sports a touchscreen divided into a 3×3 grid for easy access to smartphone functions directly from any 20 millimetre watchband, supplementing the direct operations from your mobile phone. It doesn’t control the smartphone functions as a remote control; it can act as an independent extra-mini tablet through the Bluetooth connection synced to the handset.

The Smart Extras accessories line doesn’t stop there, though. It continues with the Smart Wireless Headset Pro that links your smartphone with the Bluetooth headset for high quality audio, whether in a call, watching a video or listening to music.

It extends farther by including SmartTags, small round icons or badges integrated with NFC technology for combined convenience almost anywhere, not just in retail locations. The SmartTags functions break beyond your smartphone, however. Tap a SmartTag and activate a computer program at work and simultaneously put your smartphone on silent mode to reduce workplace distractions.

But Smart Extensions don’t end at that point either. Sony is also releasing Smart Extension SDK, which allows developers to integrate these Sony accessories into the design of Android apps for an even fuller Sony smartphone experience.

Very nice, Sony. Very nice ideas, indeed.