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CES 2020: Health and Wellness Trends

IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Dr Nadia Tsao attended CES 2020 to cover health and wellness technologies. The Consumer Electronics Show, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, is the biggest consumer electronics event in the world. More than 4,400 exhibitors showcased the latest tech innovations to some 180,000 attendees across more than 2.9 million net square feet of exhibit space in Las Vegas. This IDTechEx premium article summarizes the major trends from the show found by walking the floor at the Sands Expo. Additional premium articles and company profiles are also available from Mr James Hayward, Mr Raghu Das and Dr Na Jiao who also attended the show.

Enabling Point of Care Diagnostics and Continuous Monitoring

Healthcare Sensor Innovations North America debut on Marc, 17-18, 2020 in San Jose, USA will focus on the latest developments in the use of wearables and sensors in point of care diagnostics and continuous monitoring.

Machine Learning Robots Cook Perfect Hot Dogs

Engineers have made a jump in using machine learning to teach robots to perform complex tasks, a framework that could be applied to a host of tasks, like identifying cancerous spots on mammograms or better understanding spoken commands to play music. But first, as a proof of concept—they've learned how to prepare the perfect hot dog.

Printing Tiny, High-Precision Objects in a Matter of Seconds

Researchers have developed a new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, including 3D bioprinting.

Keeping Cool as the Electric Vehicle Market Heats Up

Some of the biggest hurdles to widespread adoption of electric vehicles are range anxiety, battery longevity and safety. As the electric vehicle market grows and for it to reach its full potential, there is an increased need for effective thermal management of the vehicles.

Rio Tinto to Build First Solar Plant to Power Mine in West Australia

Rio Tinto has approved a $98 million (100 per cent basis) investment in a new solar plant at the Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara, Australia, as well as a lithium-ion battery energy storage system to help power its entire Pilbara power network.

Water-Clear Conductive Metal Inks

Liquid X Printed Metals® (Liquid X®), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an advanced material manufacturer of functional metallic inks that takes an application from prototype to production.

KULR Technology

KULR have extensive experience in battery safety for aerospace and defence applications, more recently they have been taking this knowledge and aplying it to the electric vehicle market.

redT

redT is a company listed on the London Stock Exchange that has spent the last 20 years developing a vanadium redox flow battery for stationary applications.

HiMirror

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Shayna Lurey, Marketing Specialist at HiMirror. HiMirror is a Taiwanese beauty tech company and is a part of the New Kinpo Group. The company develops smart mirrors for beauty tech. HiMirror benefits from research and development from New Kinpo, but marketing and sales activities are separate from its parent company.

MedWand

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with MedWand's Director of Engineering, Scott Coleman, at CES 2020. MedWand have developed a diagnostics kit for remote patient monitoring.

Smardii

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Smardii Chief Engineering Officer Mrugesh Patel at CES 2020. Smardii is a French/American company developing smart diaper technologies.

Whistle

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Whistle Labs CEO Collette Bunton at CES ShowStoppers. Whistle started as a company that tracked lost dogs in real time. It has now moved into looking at the dog's overall wellness.

10minds

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with a representative from 10minds at their booth at CES 2020. 10minds have developed Motion Pillow, a smart pillow to manage snoring.

Revieve

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Revieve VP of Product & Business Development Michel Zampa at CES 2020. The company was founded 4 years ago and have been ready for the market for over 2 years.

Sompo Holdings

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Masao Honna, Senior Deputy manager of CX Promotion from Sompo Holdings. Sompo Himawari Life, the domestic (Japanese) life insurance arm of the company, exhibited their digital health and wellness tracking solutions at CES 2020.

Kryo

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Kryo Marketing Coordinator Alex Burcham at CES 2020. Kryo have developed the chili brand of sleep technologies, including the chiliPAD and the Ooler mattress toppers, and the newly released chiliBLANKET.

Perfect Corp

IDTechEx spoke with representatives from Perfect Corp at CES 2020. Perfect Corp are a Taiwanese company founded in 2015 that have developed apps for beauty tech. The company uses augmented reality to help users try on new looks and products.

What Memphis Meats $161M Funding Means for the Cultured Meat Industry

Memphis Meats a leading start-up in the race to develop cultured meat products, recently announced that it had closed a $161 million funding round. IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent discusses what this means for the commercialisation of the cultured meat industry.

Alphabet Drops Makani Power Generating Kite Business, Shell Remains

Makani was founded in 2006 by a group of kitesurfers who were curious about the potential for kites to unlock wind energy in more places around the globe. Makani spent the past seven years at Alphabet, during which time the technology advanced from a 20kW demonstrator kite, to a utility-scale kite capable of generating 600kW.