Self driving cars, smart cities, artificial intelligence, and even outer space travel are gradually becoming a reality. This year’s International Consumer Electronics Show is bringing concepts to life that have long been deemed strictly for science fiction.
This year the International Consumer Electronics Show was hosted in Las Vegas, one of the nation’s largest tech conferences was home to an abundance of innovations and contributions. Companies such as Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, Fitbit, DJI, Honda, Amazon, and even beauty companies such as L’Oréal teamed up to discuss innovations ranging in several sections.
In the health sector, one of the most prominent propositions was an ingestible health sensor, which has the ability to detect gases in our gut, as well as pH, oxygen, hydrogen. These ingestible monitors go a step beyond traditional wearable health trackers, they can provide significant biomarkers and internal analysis of critical microbes and minerals within the body.
Beauty and skincare companies such Neutrogena or L’Oréal created wearable UV sensors, and skin monitors. L’Oréal announced a UV sensor that’s smaller than the size of a button, as well as a reusable skincare patch. These smart monitors provide skin analysis at your fingertips, with the sensors syncing regularly with your smart device.
Neutrogena featured an attachable monitor that connects to a smartphone, the monitor takes snapshots of skin samples such as section of your forehead, cheek or chin. The skin scans are then stored as data which can be used to interpret personalized skin care regimes and tailored advice suited to your specific skin type. These types of health and beauty innovations bring the doctor’s office or the dermatologists to your home, quickly and easily accessible.
DJI recently released their new DJI Mavic Air, with improved sensors, further removing worry from the pilots mind. They also introduced their new mobile gimbal, making cinematic footage easily achievable. The push for smoother cinematic footage has become a goal of many new film innovations. Professional gimbals are reducing in size but not in quality. Drones, and gimbals are becoming more traveler targeted, smaller and more user friendly.
In the past couple of years CES has been recognized as the home of safer and more secure driving technology, specifically this year’s self driving car technology. CES is turning sci-fi driving dreams to a reality.
For example, Mercedes-Benz announced a self driving car, hoping to prevent crashes and accidents on the road. Concepts like these also transition into smart city innovation, such as energy and transportation. In fact, the Huffington Post and CES estimate that by the year 2020 approximately $34 billion will be spent on smart city innovation and technology. With the use of artificial intelligence’s analytical and predictive skill innovators hope to step up the playing field.
This year’s convention was a major host to ideas and inspirations that may breed future innovations.