Here are the Biotech and VR Companies We Saw at CES 2019
The Las Vegas Convention Center hosted CES 2019, where hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of show attendees experienced firsthand the most modern of technology, including in the biotechnology and virtual reality fields. Here is some of what caught our eye at this year’s event.
Amo Lab
South Korean startup Amo Lab uses bioelectric medicine in its wearable sleep device, Amo+, which looks like a necklace. Only this necklace sends electromagnetic signals from the device to stimulate nerves in the chest, reducing stress and stabilizing your heart rate.
Amo Labs is developing another device to aid with blood circulation, respiration, and more. This device stimulates the vagus nerve with mild electromagnetic signals, balancing the parasympathetic nervous system.
Bell.AI
Bell.AI, a 2019 CES Innovation Award winner, created Bell robot products for kids aged 3–13. Bell robot products are STEM education tools designed to help kids learn coding skills via DIY robots.
The modular Mabot robot kit allows kids to build, customize and program a robot that they can then control. Its compatible with Legos, hinting at what may be next for the plastic construction toy company.
Flux Planet
Flux Planet built a 4D scanner and 3D projector for mapping and rendering AR/VR content. The 250 cameras record full-body movement and cloud-based software reconstructs complex models. The company says its consumer 4D scanner — the world’s first — will be released this spring.
BPM Core
This connected blood pressure monitor by Withings can take charts of your heartbeat (electrocardiogram or EKG) from home for real-time monitoring of heartbeats and heart conditions, and the detection of cardiovascular diseases and heart conditions.
QuickStrip
Right next to then UNLV booth, where the Las Vegas university was pitching a research and technology park, its research partner QuickStrip by Rapid Dose Therapeutics, displayed its rapid-release pharmaceutical products.
QuickStrip, created by a Canadian medical startup, wants patients to use a thin patch that can dissolves in the user’s mouth, making it easier to digest caffeine, vitamins, prescription medications and cannabis products faster.
Validic
This company’s remote-monitoring platform allows patients and their healthcare providers to immediately act on patient data. It will connect your Fitbit and more to your doctor. The North Carolina company connects to over 270 types of health monitoring devices.
Akili Interactive
Their “prescription digital medicines” are under FDA review as the company attempts to become the first approved provider of digital medicine. Its first product? Video games that treat ADHD.
Based in Boston and San Francisco, the company develops video games that offer users sensory and motor stimuli that treats conditions such as ADHD, autism, depression and MS.
lululab
lululab, a company in Samsung Electronics’ in-house venture program C-Lab, was named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards honoree.
Lululab’s AI technology is an AI healthcare assistant, LUMINI, which scans and analyzes a user’s skin and, within 10 seconds, recommends the most suitable cosmetic products.
lululab envisages the creation of “smart beauty stores” where AI technology provides customers with AI skin analysis, product recommendations and a point of purchase.
VR
On display at CES 2019 were VR headsets like the HTC Vive Pro with eye-tracking. HTC’s new Vive Pro headset tracks your eyeballs so you can change settings and navigate menus… with your brain. The headset can blur everything you’re not looking at, making the graphics particularly crisp for the area at which you are looking.
The pico neo is an all-in-one VR headset with “6 Degrees of Freedom” (6DoF) for your heads and hands. The Ximmerse AR headset is a smartphone powered augmented reality headset.
While at CES 2019, there were many companies in the VR space that caught our attention, such as Cybershoes, which are shoes for virtual reality that allow for a more immersive VR experience.
The Teslasuit vibrates and manipulates pressure to give you a full body experience while in VR, while the Holosuit could allow athletes to train in a virtual environment with its fully body motion tracker with haptic feedback.
