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From a Graphene Radiator To Blockchain Voting App, CES 2023 Recognized Its Best of Innovation Honorees

The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.

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During CES Unveiled New York, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the CES 2023 Innovation Awards honorees, including those recognized as Best of Innovation honorees. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products across 28 product categories. The CES 2023 Innovation Awards program received a record-high number of over 2100 submissions.

An independent panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers, and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation and functionality, aesthetic, and design. Those rating the highest across each category receive the “Best of Innovation” designation.

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The announcement was made ahead of CES 2023, the world’s most influential technology event.

Many honorees will showcase their product in the Innovation Awards Showcase at CES, located in the Venetian Expo. Last month, CTA announced Innovation Awards honorees during CES Unveiled events in Paris and Amsterdam, including 28 products from France and 12 from the Netherlands. Those designated as honorees, including product descriptions and photos, can be found at CES.tech/Innovation.

CES has partnered with the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) to showcase the critical role of technology in support of the United Nations’ efforts to advance human security around the world. For CES 2023, CTA introduced a new category of Innovation Awards showcasing technologies advancing human rights. The Human Security for All category includes eight new tech subcategories.

Owned and produced by CTA, CES 2023 will take place in Las Vegas on Jan. 5-8, 2023 with Media Days taking place Jan. 3-4, 2023.

Attendees will experience new technologies from global brands, hear about the future of technology from thought leaders and collaborate face-to-face with other attendees. The show will highlight how innovations in sustainability, transportation and mobility, digital health, the metaverse and more are addressing the world’s greatest challenges. Audiences will hear from industry experts during live keynotes, including leaders from John Deere, BMW and AMD.

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The full list of Best of Innovation and all honorees will be announced during CES 2023. Best of Innovation honorees announced already include:

  • Canon AMLOS
    Company: Canon
    Product Category: Software & Mobile Apps.
  • Clean Water Pathfinder
    Company: ACWA Robotics
    Product Category: Smart Cities.
  • Cray X
    Company: German Bionic Systems GmbH
    Product Category: Wearable Technologies.
  • DFG-aided AI Surveillance Camera
    Company: Microsystems, Inc.
    Product Category: Smart Cities.
  • Dot Pad
    Company: Dot Incorporation
    Product Category: Accessibility.
  • Flexible Cover Window (FCW)
    Company: SK
    Product Category: Mobile Devices & Accessories.
  • Graphene Radiator
    Company: Graphene Square
    Product Category: Home Appliances.
  • John Deere Autonomous Tractor
    Company: John Deere
    Product Category: Robotics.
  • LG OLED Flex (Model 42LX3)
    Company: LG Electronics Inc.
    Product Category: Gaming.
  • LG UltraFine Display OLED Pro
    Company: LG Electronics Inc.
    Product Category: Computer Peripherals & Accessories.
  • Meta Music System for Streaming
    Company: Verses, Inc.
    Product Category: Streaming.
  • Samsung S3B512C Security Chip
    Company: Samsung Electronics America
    Product Category: Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy.
  • SF (Super Fast) Battery
    Company: SK
    Product Category: Embedded Technologies.
  • The AeviceMD
    Company: Aevice Health
    Product Category: Digital Health.
  • xBloom – World’s First Whole-Bean Capsule System
    Company: TBDX INC
    Product Category: Robotics.
  • Xplora X6 Play
    Company: Xplora
    Product Category: Wearable Technologies.
  • zkVoting
    Company: Zkrypto Inc.
    Product Category: Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy.
Graphene Radiator By @Graphene Square

Graphene Radiator By Graphene Square

The Graphene Radiator is a virtual fireplace that generates heat from graphene, the thinnest (one-atom-thick) and strongest material in the world. Recently discovered, its discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2010). And now, we bring it to use, where heat can be generated more efficiently with less space and 30% less energy.

@SF (Super Fast) Battery By SK

SF (Super Fast) Battery By SK

SF Battery is the world’s fastest charging electric vehicle battery commercialized. Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV 6 has the fastest charging performance in the world. These cars had been named numerous awards such as 2022 World Car of the Year, German Car of the year. This battery is manufactured by SK On, using Nickel 83% Cathode which is the highest nickel content. With the help of SK On’s fast charging protocol, this battery is charged from 10% to 80% within 18 minutes. Quick charging technology could cause vehicle fires; however, SK On’s has achieved zero number of vehicle fire.

@zKvoting By @zkrypto / Hanyang University – Best of Innovation Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy at @CES 2023

zKvoting By zkrypto / Hanyang University – Best of Innovation Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy at CES 2023

zkVoting is the first public blockchain voting app to utilize ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proof) technology. zkVoting leverages the trusted public blockchain ecosystem and ZKP technology to deliver the first voting platform that ensures absolute secrecy, guaranteed legitimate information without revealing voter identification and ballot content, and is resistant to adversarial coercion. With the intuitive and user-friendly zkVoting mobile app and accurate validation of ballot results, zkrypto is unleashing a new era for legitimate elections.

@Xplora X6 Play By @Xplora

Xplora X6 Play kids smartwatch By Xplora – Best of Innovation Wearable Technologies at CES 2023

Unlike other smartwatches designed for young children, Xplora’s new X6 Play provides children (4-11) with a safe onboarding to the digital world. The technology encourages a balance between screen time and physical activity while helping families stay in touch.

@Cray X Exoskeleton By @German Bionic Systems GmbH

Cray X Exoskeleton By German Bionic Systems GmbH – Best of Innovation Wearable Technologies at CES 2023

In an era of worker shortages, German Bionic is helping make manual handling jobs safer and thereby more appealing and inclusive, enabling businesses to better retain existing employees and attract new workers for physically demanding jobs. The Cray X is a fully-connected, powered exoskeleton for use in industrial environments such as in the fields of logistics, production and construction. It protects the lower back area by giving up to 66 lb (30 kg) of support per lifting movement as well as providing active walking assistance to prevent fatigue. The human-machine system thereby combines human intelligence with machine power.

@xBloom – World’s First Whole-Bean Capsule System by By @TBDX INC – Best of Innovation Robotics at @CES 2023

xBloom – World’s First Whole-Bean Capsule System by By TBDX INC – Best of Innovation Robotics at CES 2023

xBloom encapsulates the soul of specialty coffee in the world’s first whole-bean capsule. The coffee machine is a combination of engineering, design, and the art of coffee.

xBloom is packed with IOT-connected patented technologies, including auto-grind size adjustment, solid-state pouring system, and smart capsule dock. Roasters are empowered to curate and encode bean-specific recipes into the fully-compostable capsule’s RFID chip to deliver perfect grind size, temperature, and brewing ratios for every cup. Users can experiment with recipes through the xBloom app.

@Meta Music System for Streaming By @Verses, Inc. – Best of Innovation Streaming at @CES 2023

Meta Music System for Streaming By Verses, Inc. – Best of Innovation Streaming at CES 2023

Meta music system is a new streaming music service to meet users’ needs in the metaverse era.

You choose your favorite artists and music, and artificial intelligence helps you personalize artists and music that reflect your style and taste.

The ability to produce own unique artist and make individual music meets the needs of today’s consumers who want to express their personality and have controllability over what they like.

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Legendary watch industry expert Jean-Claude Biver announcing the first historic NFT auction of a luxury watch

 

@Hublot Bigger Bang All Black Tourbillon Chronograph “Special piece” for NFT (Non Fungible Token) sale

Where auctions are already soaring for works of art and intangibles, never before has a luxury watch been the subject of an NFT (Non Fungible Token) sale. This watch will be the first luxury watch to have a digital life with certified ownership and authenticity. This digital twin will be the “authentic” double of the physical watch in the digital space.

Jean-Claude Biver and Switzerland’s WISeKey International Holding, a Swiss cybersecurity company, are leading the way in announcing the first historic NFT auction of a luxury watch. The auction took place on March 31, 2021 on the leading Open.Sea NFT MarketPlace, which is already active in the sale of artworks.

To make history, Jean-Claude Biver has symbolically chosen the famous Hublot Bigger Bang All Black Tourbillon Chronograph “Special piece”, a historic timepiece because of the major role it played in paving the way for today’s new trends, a watch that has made watchmaking history, a symbol of success, a source of inspiration that has made it Jean-Claude Biver’s favorite watch for over a quarter of a century.

45 years of an extraordinary career. From the early years at Audemars Piguet, the amazing Blancpain adventure, the
collaboration with Nicolas Hayek, Omega, then the dazzling development of Hublot, the presidency of the watchmaking division of the French group LVMH, the rejuvenation of TAG Heuer, the re-launch of Zenith, the creation of the first Swiss luxury connected watch with Google and Intel, or his commitment against racism during the EURO 2008 and the Charity Water campaign with Depeche Mode to name but a few, not forgetting his swiss mountain cheese… Jean-Claude Biver is a living legend in the watch industry, characterized by his commitment to the Swiss watch industry, his spirit of daring and entrepreneurship, with passion.

Jean-Claude Biver and Carlos Moreira, CEO of WISeKey, launched 12 years ago at BaselWorld the first digital
certification of a luxury watch. They are now repeating this technology breakthrough with the use of Digital identification combined with NFT to use the existing digital certificate of authenticity on the Hublot watch and checking and creation of a Digital Twin with its corresponded Non-Fungible Token.

WISeKey, was the first company in the world to use dual factor authentication combined with blockchain technology to secure luxury watches, currently protects over 2.5 million luxury watches. Since 2010, WISeKey has collaborated with manufactures of luxury watches deploying this unique technology to integrate semiconductors tags powered with its VaultIC154 NFC secure element and provide brands with the ability of issuing, modifying, and checking of a digital certificate of authenticity.
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These tags, when placed on any product and tapped by an NFC phone, securely authenticate, and track the product much like an embedded ePassport and confirm the identity of the product on the blockchain ledger. This technology has received a patent in the USA.

According to watchpro, WISeKey successfully launched this week its WISe.Art, a digital certificate of authenticity, a NFT for art pieces that will live forever on the blockchain, unchanged and unchallengeable, as proof of the buyer’s ownership.

WISeKey says the announcement generated strong interest from the luxury and art community and WISe.ART is now operation using OpenSea NFT MarketPlace.

@Hublot Bigger Bang All Black Tourbillon Chronograph “Special piece” for NFT (Non Fungible Token) watch auction by @wisekey

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