1 L’Oreal make-up printer
L’Oreal showed off a prototype of its new Brow Magic augmented reality brow applicator. The company’s 2020 innovation Perso tried to combine lipstick, foundation, and skincare into one handheld printer. Brow Magic focuses on eyebrow make-up. The companion smartphone app uses augmented reality to show you what your printed eyebrows should look like in reality. Once you are satisfied, simply run the device across your eyebrow, allowing 2,400 tiny nozzles print cosmetics onto your face like an inkjet. The printer has been developed with the help of Prinker, a temporary tattoo technology brand.
2 VersaWare next-gen kitchen tools
VersaWare makes tracking nutrition easy. Its smart cutting board and a mixing bowl are attached to a phone-sized device that displays recipes and other information. When you cook, you will be able to note the nutritional information. Once you are done, all the figures will be before you. The appliances sync to the company’s app, which will include recipes tailored to your nutritional goals. Having an overview of one’s meal will put you on track towards healthy eating.
3 Bosch RideCare
Bosch is creating a footprint in the ride-hailing economy. The connected smart camera has been designed with ride-hailing drivers in mind. It includes interior and exterior cameras and a lighting element on the front to let drivers and riders know the service is active. The device is able to capture footage of the road and safety footage of the inside of the vehicle. The RideCare comes with a wireless SOS button that the driver can position wherever they prefer.
4 Fufuly cushion to check anxiety
Japanese boutique robotics firm Yukai Engineering has a new innovation called Fufuly. The product utilises “respiratory entrainment”, which refers to a phenomenon wherein the rhythm of a user’s breathing matches that of a respirator. In other words, the person’s breathing matches with that of the robot cushion. The plush pillow gives out gentle rhythmical pulses when hugged and it encourages the user to take slower, deeper breaths.
5 Kohler’s Statement VES
Who doesn’t like a good shower? At the same time, who likes weirdly-named devices? Kohler’s Statement VES (Variable Eco-Spray) Showerhead and Handshower use air-induction technology for a shower experience. These boast the ability to use up to 40 per cent less water without compromising on rinsing coverage or warmth. Air-induction tech infuses air into the water droplets, making them feel larger and enables them to retain heat longer, giving you a comfortable soak.
6 LG Breeze
It’s a smart sleep-aid technology that LG developed in partnership with SleepWave Company. The in-ear wireless earphones help people track and improve their sleep patterns using brain wave-sensing technology. The built-in sensors track your brain waves throughout the night. This monitoring is said to more accurately determine how much time you spent in each sleep phase (REM, light, and deep sleep). It can also help users fall asleep by playing sounds (like soothing sounds of nature) in response to brain wave activity.
7 SomaSleep sleep mask
SomaSleep is an eye-tracking sleep mask that uses small capacitive sensors to track your eye movements (including REM or rapid eye movements) and delivers data on your sleeping patterns and general sleep quality. Somalytics has come up with what it calls SomaCap, carbon-nanotube paper composite capacitive sensors that are sensitive and “paper-thin”.
8 Panasonic Nanoe X Air Purifier
The small device can fit into a cup holder and it also ensures that you don’t have to keep an air freshener in the car. The device uses Panasonic’s Nanoe X technology, which employs hydroxyl radicals, a diatomic molecule that’s known to act as a “detergent” when it comes into contact with pollutants, to clean the air. It takes around two hours to freshen up the insides of a car while producing only 36 decibels of sound.
9 TCL RayNeo X2
One of the coolest gadgets showcased at CES, TCL’s AR glasses use built-in waveguides in the lenses that project Micro LED displays that hover in front of both eyes. These glasses don’t need a phone at all to work and the display comes with 1,000 nits of brightness in both of the eyepieces, allowing a great experience of AR technology in both indoor and outdoor spaces.
10 Canon’s Kokomo platform
The hardware-focussed company has announced a new virtual reality (VR) platform called Kokomo, which enables face-to-face communication in a virtual space with live-action videos. Kokomo users can make an ‘ImmersiveCall’ to chat with another user who has a compatible device and is registered. There are reports that Canon has plans to launch a Kokomo headset that is compatible with the app.