Earlier this month saw the doors of CES open for yet another year. It was my 8th year at the show (Gezzz I am getting old!), and it was bigger and louder than ever.
It has been fascinating being part of this monstrosity of an event and being part of how it has morphed and changed over the years. Once the dominion of the latest TVs and hi-fi’s and car gadgets and other ‘traditional’ electronics….those guys are still there but now they’re shoulder to shoulder with wearable technology, 3D printing, smart home technology and augmented reality.
I do a lot of work in fitness technology development and I really remember 8 years ago when there were just a few dusty booths at the back of North Hall with some low end pedometers, and now it’s a significant part of the Sands Expo with huge booths from brands who have become household names, multiple conference tracks and significant evidence of technical innovation all around you.
I was particularly interested to see that there was a new section for the beauty tech zone this year. It had a few simple booths with various skin buffing tools, a nail painting device…..nothing too mind blowing in terms of novel technology, but ….spot a pattern?! We know from our projects back at base that there is huge amounts of innovation going on in the world of personal care product development from novel skin imaging systems, to smart dispensing systems to connected cosmetics and I’m excited to see how this type of innovation will meet the world at events such as CES.
We’ve already booked our booth for next year so we’ll be back, and we’ll be bigger than ever too as we’re recruiting! If you’d like to learn about joining our team read more here.
If you’d like to know more about what we were showing at our booth at CES then we had 3 different demos to showcase the type of connected product development work we do across different market areas….
SparTag – a connected sports & fitness hardware development platform – the smart tag allows us to collect large amounts of data and hence explore what is possible FAST
You can see a video here that shows our approach to fast start for connected devices using SparTag as an example
KiCoPen – a connected diabetes management system – anchored by a connected insulin pen powered by energy harvesting instead of a battery. The solution combines different data sources to provide a rich information source and insights to different stakeholders
Zipline – a connected retail solution for queue management
All in all it was a good year, and I even managed to find time to go and see the singing frog! (I always wanted to see it!)
