CES is coming !!!

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CES is coming !!!

The CES (Consumer Electronic Show) is the biggest worldwide event for consumer products with more than 120k attendees every years.

From Jan 09 to Jan 12, the show displays consumer innovations and new products. Originally highly influenced by automotive, the show has broaden its audience in the last years, with keynotes this session from Siemens, LG, Walmart, Intel, Hyundai, Qualcomm, Loreal …

Prior to this event, the jury has voted on the 2024 innovation awards. There are many ways to look at them, here is however my selection

High potentials

AI assisted trend scouting

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/f/focus-ai.aspx

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Large Language Models (LLM) combined with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has proven good results in term of summarization and search. The company Focus AI propose an innovative assistant that specialized in patent data to analyze emerging technologies

More information here : https://www.getfocus.eu/how-it-works

Super Quantum Station

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/s/super-quantum-station.aspx

SQK Inc. released a super quantum simulator imbued with essential tools for quantum deep learning. With its cloud adapter, it can also extend to cloud providers

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More information on quantum machine learning here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_machine_learning

Autoland Autonomous Aircraft Landing System

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/a/ota-updates-enable-car-manufacturers-to-fix-inevit.aspx

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The aeronautic industry has been driving change in autonomous system and digitalization for years.

Garmin has released this emergency system for aircraft retrofit that can be triggered when the pilot is unable to fly. Such system will be more and more important with the development of vertical take off and landing drones (VTOL)

Interaction

Foldable laptop

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/best-of/h/hp-spectre-fold.aspx

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Released few years ago, the technology for flexible display has unlocked many applications. Last year was big on foldable phones, this year HP is presenting an ultrathin tablet|laptop|desktop.

The boundaries between tablet and laptop are becoming more and more thin.

Interactive Transparent window

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/best-of/i/interactive-transparent-window.aspx

Transparent windows and interactive displays has been at the center of researches surrounding autonomous car. AUO Corporation has released this enhanced system that combines Augmented Reality (AR)/ Mixed Reality (MR)

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Realtime avatar

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/i/iris.aspx

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After the development of speech-to-text and text-to-speech, and the recent rapid expansion of chat bot based on LLM, it is natural to look at virtual humans (AI generated human)

The company IVeS has released a chatbot able to interact with American sign language (ASL) bridging the communication gap for many users using this language as primary means of communication.

Holographic button

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/h/holo-button%e2%84%a2.aspx

Combining visual and distance sensor, the company VTouch has released an holographic button for interactive control

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Operation

Over-the-air (OTA) optimized software update

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/a/auto-update.aspx

With the development of smart devices, we are surrounding by devices that are performing computing at the edge (next to us). But like many softwares, the initial programming need to evolve overtime to gain in features or correct bugs.

However those updates are not simple as the network and/or the bandwidth available can be limited

This innovation from Aurora Labs optimize the information sent over the air to update the smart device

LLM Shield

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/a/aishield-guardian.aspx

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As an AI is learning from selected data, and is bounded by a global guidance (system prompt), the recent broader diffusion of that technology has been subject to attacks and tentative of malicious use. The protection of users and safeguarding against usage violations is an essential need for business

Bosch Global Software Technologies has released a specific shield software that is adding this essential protection to the interaction with GenAI technologies

Security Privacy decloak vision

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/d/decloakvision.aspx

With an average of 125 million units of cameras sold by year, our world is increasingly monitored. Such an environment can be a real challenge for privacy.

DeCloak Intelligences Co. has released a system that combine deep neural network (DNN) and de-identification technics to perform high performance surveillance while preserving privacy.

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Decentralized biometric authentication

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/d/decentralized-remote-biometric-authentication-solu.aspx

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In a digital world where GenAI has the ability to create image, sound and video, the authentication is more and more important (know who you are).

The company GHOSTPASS has released a system that allow decentralized biometrics, reducing the risk of massive data breach and improving data available for authentication

Hardware Low power AI board

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/m/metis-ai-platform.aspx

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/a/all-in-4-ai-total-solution.aspx

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The development of AI large language model (LLM) has recently massively changed the landscape of many businesses by providing efficient interaction with users. Those models run on the cloud most of the time, but have also accelerated the development of small language model (SLM) that can run on smart devices.

New low power hardwares (for USB powered devices for example), has been released to provide the appropriate hosting for those models

Creativity

Immersive experience

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/a/ai-xperience-by-imki.aspx

There has been in the last years an explosion of innovations for immersive experience. As augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are mixing in many ways, new products are combining technologies to provide entertainment

The company Imki has provided a combined solution that mix 3D audio, head tracking, AI … to immerge the users in their experience

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AI assisted creation of toons

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/a/aid.aspx

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/t/tootoon.aspx

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The last months has seen an increasing rate of solutions to create content and assist artists in that process. Those 2 honorees provides framework to assist the user in that process

AI generated advertisement

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/d/d-id-creative-reality-studio-and-mobile-app.aspx

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/v/vcat-ai.aspx

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/best-of/s/seller-canvas.aspx

In the same fiber, several solutions has been presented at the CES to create advertisement for products assisted by GenAI

3D capture

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/-/3d-reconstruction-generative-ai,-vrin-3d.aspx

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From physical world, the creation of the 3D model is becoming more and more seamless.

RebuilderAI has released a system VRIN 3D that create the digital model with attributes of texture, shadows … using a mobile device to created digital twin in a fast and simple way

Health

There are many innovations on that domain, I wanted to highlight 2 of them that have picked my interest

Personal Mobility Airbag Vest

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/p/personal-mobility-airbag-vest.aspx

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As a rider, I am always looking for innovation that can improve the safety on the road.

The Safeware Inc. company is releasing this year a model that can deploy in 0.2 seconds and automatically alert the emergency contacts

Visual reality for patients

https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees/2024/honorees/s/skia_opd.aspx

Bridging the gap between patients and doctors, this system allows to provide augmented reality for patient education (for surgical procedures preparation for example) allowing to “see directly inside the body as they have X-ray vision”

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Full list available here :  https://www.ces.tech/innovation-awards/honorees.aspx