Ken is one of Europe's leading experts on Mobile Services and Applications with particular focus on the emerging new media content, applications and commerce methodologies, and the merging of these with the ubiquitous, personal access of mobile. Using his unique combination of business, industry and investment experience, he has built, nurtur...

LORA DICARLO'S OSÉ: Caught My Eye (no it's not a desk lamp) A previous product from LORA DICARLO'S OSÉ was given a CES Innovation Award at CES 2019, then they rescinded their Innovations award in engineering, seemingly considering it inappropriate. Due to popular outcry, they later reinstated, and also gave their new product a CES Innovation Award ...

 MedWand = Magic Wand for Personal Healthcare MedWand™ - Last Gadget Standing award winning finalist. MedWand™ enables the potential of home care aspects of telemedicine - contains a powerful Camera System, Pulse Oximeter, IR thermometer, Stethoscope and ECG all in a single 4 ounce enclosure. Here's what caught my eye. MedWand houses multiple ...

Withings adds AFib Watch to their Product Line Withings, pioneer of the digital health movement and connected analogue watches, unveiled its ScanWatch, a clinically validated hybrid smartwatch to detect both risk of arrhythmia (AFib) and sleep apnea – all from the wrist. Helping users and their physicians monitor overall health with a smartwatch th...

WOWCube - A Rubik's Cube Inspired Interactive Puzzle/Game  WOWCube is an awesome Rubik's cube inspired gadget with interactive screens on all the cubes. Althought packed with a portfolio of games and applications, it is an open software platform, so sky's the limit on use cases and creative and fun things come next. Use cases are limitless lik...

Octobo - Soft Cuddly and a new kind of "Screen Time" for kids. Last Gadget Standing award winning finalist, Octobo is a multimedia platform integrated into a plush toy - an Octopus - with sensors all over it, combined with games, content, apps and story books plus interactive pieces to show and give to Octobo. Sliding a touch screen tablet with app...

CyclePath - Innovative, Infectious, combines Gaming with Exercise  CyclePath: Another Last Gadget Standing entry that caught my eye. An all-New Exercise Platform with connected App and Gaming Features. This Hybrid technology that has both health benefits and game playing thrills and engagement, will make a new and fresh category in the home ga...

POW Audio's Una™ - expandable, floatable speaker with unique WaveBloom™ technology POW Audio's Una™ is quite unique. Patented WaveBloom™ technology - it's expandable to produce a large sound chamber for Bass response. It's Water resistant, so when expanded it becomes a floatable speaker for the pool! WaveBloom allows POW Audio speakers to contract ...

Waverly Labs Ambassador Interpreter - Wearable Multilingual Conversation Aid I have seen a number of stand alone, smartphone app and accessories over the past few years appearing on the scene. None of them have seemed to make it to critical mass in the consumer space. I'm not sure what the best form factor is, but if in fact the quality of the tran...

 Complex Tech Producing Simplicity  Drones have been a big feature at CES for the past few years. With whole sections indoors and out showing the latest, large and small. What Caught My Eye this year was the sophistication that has appeared in even the smallest of pocketable drones. I have had a few of these over the years, but they were ...

Phyn Smart Water Assistant - Leak Detection + helps with Water Savings Another Last Gadget Standing award winning finalist! I'm always looking for the value of consumer technology! This one caught my eye because I have a need for this in my home! The Phyn Smart Water Assistant Uses AI to make leak detection and water savings simple. Coupled to a Sm...

flic2 - Stick a Physical Button Anywhere to do Anything you define then just Press it! flic2 - Last Gadget Standing award winning finalist at CES2020. Pushing a tactile button is the most satisfying and straightforward way to initiate an action. Flic 2 buttons are innovative finger-tip-sized wireless buttons that can be stuck into place in your hou...

Nepox - Creating 3D Body Scans simply with a Smartphone  The virtual fitting room is the virtual space where users can access their cloud stored 3D models. Catalogues of clothing and apparel are loaded from real 3D fashion brands millimetric data sets from 3D design compatible software such as Marvelous. Rendering of real fashion items will he...

Moasure ONE - Motion-based Measuring Tool Another one of the gems that caught my eye at the UK Pavilion at CES2020 Moasure's patented technology uses motion sensors to measure and draw simultaneously to measure property and outdoor spaces. Moasure ONE, is a motion-based measuring tool. Leveraging the latest accelerometers, gyros combined with a pro...

 pix:mini: A Smart Backpack for kids! Cool, creative, games, sharing and safety aspects. It's a gadget, yes, but a fun toy and a customizable school backpack with LED screen and room inside for carrying all necessities. Used with Smartphone App and lets you design animations, display messages and cartoon characters, stay safe on the road and p...

Capstone's Google-Enabled Smart Mirror for Today's Connected Lifestyle I am always on the lookout for things that already have an accepted place on your person (e.g. wrist, ears, shoes, glasses) or in your home (e.g. bathroom scale, kitchen counters, doorbell, etc) and also possibly in your car, workspace, etc. Especially if they look about the sam...

Great North Digital Ltd's Aircards - Web-based Augmented Reality from Physical Collateral  One of the gems that caught my eye of the companies at the UK Pavilion at CES2020. AircardsAR are web-based Augmented Reality campaigns which work on any smartphone producing consumer engagement in physical environs. Effectively a new digital channel and...

 Bebop Sensor's - Forte Data VR Glove Lets You "Touch" & "Feel" I have been following BeBop Sensors "smart fabric" technology for a few years now and hoped that this particular sector of their development efforts would be the one that in the end would catch my eye as an important touch and haptics element of AR and VR applications. Th...

As I have said many times in the past - AR is not just about AR glasses, it's about Content and Applications! Well, Anomaly Productions presented its line of innovative Augmented Reality books at CES2020 and their content is creative and engaging, interactive and experiential! Children's books that become sweeping worlds of scifi-fantasy, they have...

 Smart glasses currently have several problems, one of which is being small enough to look "normal" when worn by consumers. Another problem is related to power – the battery is barely enough for several hours of operation. Bosch seems to be making an attempt (along with many others :-) to solve these problems and offer smart glasses components...