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- a microphone, load cell, accelerometer, and gyroscope
- this brush reports on users' hair quality and the effectiveness of their brushing technique. These learnings are
automatically synchronized to the dedicated app via Wi-Fi
or Bluetooth, which delivers personalized advice and tips
for improving hair health and tracks changes over time.
Additionally, as of January 4, Withings Steel HR became
available for purchase worldwide. As the first analog
activity-tracking watch with heart rate monitoring to offer
a long-lasting battery life of 25 days, Steel HR combines
style and health with smartphone notifications to help you
stay connected day and night.
Xenoma
Xenoma, a spinout company
from the University of Tokyo
founded in 2015, is revolutionizing the future of wearable
electronics with their e-skin apparel. By uniquely combining functionality and usability, Xenoma's e-skin apparel
can monitor a user's motion and respiration while remaining comfortable, durable and machine washable. The
core technologies behind e-skin apparel are stretchable
electronics and sensors fully integrated with traditional
textiles which fluidly conform with the user's body movements as a printed circuit fabric.
Xenoma is launching their first product at CES 2017 - a
14-sensor e-skin shirt and software developers kit (SDK) for
content creators. The company has offices in Tokyo, Japan
and Worcester, MA. For more information, visit xenoma.
com
XYZprinting Inc.
XYZprinting broke the mold
for consumer 3D printers back
in 2014 with the launch of the
da Vinci 1.0. Since then, XYZprinting has incorporated a
myriad of 3D products and services, such as 3D scanners
and 3D pens to Stereolithography and Direct Light Processing 3D printers, in order to provide the most complete
3D printing solutions to the general consumer. Fully committed to producing the best possible products and user
experience on the market, XYZprinting has set the bar in
affordability, accessibility and quality.
Yumii
Through their proprietary companion
robot named Cutii, triggered through
vocal commands that interface with
a web platform and mobile apps, Yumii revolutionizes
seniors' daily lives and well-being by simplifying their
everyday interactions with friends, families, caretakers and
doctors. A precursor to automated away-from-home care
assistance, this next generation product provides elders
with access to a full catalogue of activities and services.
Once selected and planned, the user then communicates

in real time with those individual(s) with whom he or she
intends to share quality and enriching moments. Planning
a visit to the museum or sharing time with grandchildren
has never been easier.
Zero Zero Robotics
Hover Camera Passport is
the flagship flying camera
product developed by Zero
Zero Robotics. It is the
world's first foldable, lightweight and autonomous
self-flying camera, embedded with a 4K and 13MP camera
and state-of-the-art AI. Its portable form factor offers the
first safe and easy-to-use flying camera that takes just one
tap to fly.
Hovering within a category of its own, Hover Camera
Passport is the first truly consumer-friendly, personal
flying camera with the portability of a smartphone, the
image capturing capabilities of a drone, and the user-benefits of interacting with a device that is safe, compact, and
versatile enough for indoor and outdoor settings. With its
foldable and carbon-fiber enclosed design, Hover Camera
Passport sets a new industry standard for flying consumer
electronics.
Zhor-Tech
Zhor-Tech is specialized in
connected footwear technology. Our mission is to develop
technological innovations to
bring more function and features to the footwear market.
Our goal is not to "gadgetize" footwear but to transform an
insole/shoe to a smart product which will bring more comfort and analytical data to generally make our life better.
With an expertise in footwear, electronics and biomechanics, we work as the technology partner of shoe brands and
develop data solutions to offer new services.
Zhor-Tech notably created with its partner Digitsole, the
Warm Series (the first connected heating insole), Run
Profiler (a connected insole dedicated to sport) and the
first self-tightening Smartshoe in the World. The company
is now operating with different partners in more than 30
countries.
Zhor-Tech and Digitsole have won the CES 2017 Innovation Honoree Award in the "Sport, Fitness and Biotech" product category for presenting its new connected
smartshoe: The Active Cushioning Run Profiler.

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