Every year, hundreds of companies compete to demonstrate to the world that their devices are the most modern and surprising on the planet. Try to get an award at CES, the largest technology conference of world consumption, which is held between 7 and 10 January in Las Vegas. The CTA, the association organising the event, granted since 1976 its innovation awards to recognize “the fields most influential and innovative industry”. The jury is composed of experts in the sector and in the media, designers, and engineers. These are some of the award winning most original of this year:
Health and wellness
The key to good oral health is to locate and remove any residue between the teeth before it becomes a major problem. Despite the fact that millions of people in the world are brushed every day, do not know if they are doing it correctly. The device winner in the category of health and wellness seems to have the answer. Colgate Plaqless Pro is an electric toothbrush that has optical sensors on its head to detect any accumulation in real-time. A ring of light on your handle indicates to the user if a particular area of your mouth is completely clean.
smart Home
A bed capable of warm up has been done with an award in the category of smart home. Climate 360, of Sleep Number, it balances the temperature and optimizes the sleep cycles in the body naturally. In particular, you can heat the bed up to 100 degrees and then cooling it to 12. According to the company, the clinical research has shown that this bed can reduce the body temperature throughout the night to keep the user comfortably asleep and decrease the number of times that you wake up.
Robotics
Meeting Owl Pro is a small device with camera, microphone and speaker that seeks to turn any meeting room or conference room into a smart. It is one of the winners in the category of robotics. Your goal is to improve the interaction between people and computers that hold meetings at a distance. Once placed in the center of the table, watching everything that happens around you. Through vision systems and speech recognition, and predictive technology, is able to focus and zoom in on who is speaking and to know the room.
virtual Reality
Although it may seem like an invention … a little futuristic, the winner of this technology allows users to play video games or navigate on applications with the mind. NextMind offers a new way to interact to connect the brain directly with the helmets of virtual reality, or actually increases, creating a fully immersive experience. Its technology incorporates algorithms based on artificial intelligence that decodes the user’s intent and translate the neural signals into digital commands. Just put the device in the back of the head, it would be possible, for example, navigate in an app without the need of knobs or traditional accessories.
video Screens
mobile devices have changed the way in which it is consumed and creates audio-visual content. When you stream a video portrait of a smartphone to the tv, the experience may not be the most appropriate. But imagine that it were possible to turn the tv to take maximum advantage of the screen. Is intended Samsung with Sero, which means vertical in Korean. This tv designed for millenials and the Generation Z has a swivel screen, and has won an award in the category of video screens.
Gaming
In the category of gaming, the prize is what has led to a board game of murder called St. Noire. In it, players become detectives and must solve a murder in a small town. To do this, you must do interrogations of suspects, search for clues and try to figure out which character is lying to you. Although by your argument, remember any traditional board game without an iota of technology, the novelty is that along the entire game —that takes about 30 minutes— it interacts with Alexa, the voice assistant Amazon.
