CES 2024—Best of Innovation Award Winners

In November 2023, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the winners of the CES 2024 Innovation Awards, including the award for Best of Innovation. This article will cover some of the Projects that won for the Best of Innovation Award.

HP Spectre Fold
By HP Inc.

Computer Hardware & Components - Sustainability, Eco-Design & Smart Energy

HP Spectre Fold is an ultrathin tablet, laptop and desktop in one computer. It's a 17" tablet with a folding display that converts it into a laptop, with a magnetically attached keyboard. The keyboard can attach at the fold, or attach covering just half the screen below the fold, for a dual screen laptop experience. When you need more workspace, it can be a 17" widescreen desktop appointed on its built in easel stand, using the keyboard wirelessly.

Samsung 2D/3D Gaming Monitor
By Samsung Electronics America

Gaming & eSports

Samsung 2D/3D Gaming Monitor is a 37-inch gaming monitor, showcasing high-quality 3D images in 4K resolution to take immersion to the next level. Without brightneess or color deterioration, the Samsung 2D/3D Gaming Monitor can control the intensity and direction graphics come from your monitor screen. With a Neo QLED display, Samsung combined proprietary screen technology, AI vision recognition and increased tracking accuracy to create a VR-like experience on a flat screen. With Samsung 2D/3D Gaming Monitor, you can enjoy both 3D and VR content from platforms like Steam, conveniently in one place.

These displays don't have any of these drawbacks, allowing users to lay back and enjoy their games, but they are likely to be pricey and they'll go against increasingly impressive OLED and QD-OLED regular screens. Acer announced the Aspire 3D 15 SpatialLabs Edition laptop, which lets gamers use the 3D technology on the go.

ZenScreen Fold OLED MQ17QHBy ASUS

Computer Peripherals & Accessories

Introducing the ZenScreen Fold OLED MQ17QH, the world's first 17.3-inch OLED foldable monitor. Since it folds down to a mere 12.5 inches and it offers an ultra-light weight at 1.1Kg, it travels easily. It targets the requirements of a DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification for exceptional color performance, and it covers 100% of the cinema-grade DCI-P3 color gamut.. It also offers versatile connectivity with 2 USB Type-C ports, 1 mini HDMI port, and a kickstand for varied standing angle Asus has yet to announce pricing or availability, but it's expected to ship some time in the first half of 2024.

Interactive Transparent Window
By AUO Corporation

In-Vehicle Entertainment

Taiwan-based display manufacturers AUO and Innolux have been scaling their automotive display businesses, which continue to see revenue growth. AUO made its CES debut this year, showcasing Micro LED and other advanced technologies.

The AUO Interactive Transparent Window creates an amazing visual experience in cockpit by seamlessly integrating transparent displays into side windows and controllers. This window fulfills a range of needs, from basic entertainment functions and online meetings to interactive AR/MR experiences, extending beyond the cabin environment. Lastly, the window proactively enhances safety by issuing warnings to passengers when they tend to open the door without noticing approaching vehicles, leveraging connectivity with side mirror cameras. With the Interactive Transparent Window, vehicles evolve from conventional transportation to all-round third living spaces, enhancing the aspects of entertainment and safety.

Skin Screen
By L'Oréal

Digital Imaging & Photography

Skin Screen is new breakthrough skin analysis service that uses a combination of tri-polar light technology and advanced, patented algorithms to measure and assess key skin parameters, like sun damage, redness, visible pores, skin hydration, clogged pores, wrinkles/fine lines, brown spots and more, and recommends a skin regimen to combat them. In just minutes, Skin Screen will analyze and score your key skin parameters to help build the most tailored skincare routine.Lancôme Skin Screen uses three different lighting modes for every angle. Each mode provides different optical insight into the particular skin concerns:

The white light allows for an objective evaluation of the key characteristics of the skin surface. The cross-polarized white light filters out the specular surface reflections, thereby enhancing the visualization of sub-surface details like emerging brown spots and red areas. The UV lighting mode makes it possible to analyze UV damage. It operates on the near ultraviolet (UVA) spectrum, using powerful strobes and a band-pass filter centered at 365 nm. Skin Screen is available in selected Lancôme counters. Find out more.

MEMS Hybrid Micromotor for Electronics
By SILMACH

Embedded Technologies

SilMach's hybrid MEMS micromotors are the first motors designed for electronics. They are presented as electronic components that can be soldered directly and thus offer designers the ability to integrate a mechanical function into an electronic product. With many applications in various sectors (medical, defense, aeronautics, etc.), these stepper motors are intended to replace the Lavet-type stepping motor in particular in connected hybrid watches as they are much more compact, consume less energy than legacy technology and can move hands in any way/speed needed.

The Link
By Samsung Electronics America

Computer Peripherals & Accessories

Whether it’s the office, an at-home setup or a gaming den, multi-monitor setups are the norm. But often, they’re uneven, mismatched and fail to properly connect with each other for a seamless experience. To solve that, Samsung is introducing The Link – an aesthetically pleasing multi-screen setup. It's not only super-thin 4K 32-inch LED monitor, but it’s the first to enable multiple The Link connections without separate cable. Connect as many monitors as you need to get your perfect setup with each offering premium picture and sound quality, as well as smart features.

Seller Canvas
By STUDIO LAB

Artificial Intelligence

STUDIO LAB — a startup spun off in 2021 —introduced Seller Canvas, an AI-based commerce detail page automation service, and Photo-bot, an automated commerce photography robot that combines AI and robotics. Seller Canvas revolutionizes e-commerce marketing, by assisting companies, sellers and marketing agencies in need of commerce content. It has an AI marketing content creation tool and an automated photo robot.

With vision AI, robot arm and self-driving body, the photo robot analyzes the model, product and surroundings, and shoots the perfect photo op. Beyond just photography, the platform automates the entire content creation cycle by analyzing and utilizing user-uploaded product, model photos for image editing and commerce copywriting. Seller Canvas can effortlessly generate and design a wide range of promotional content-from landing pages, advertisements, to short videos.

Hestia
By VAONIS
Digital Imaging & Photography

In July of 2023, telescope company Vaonis announced Hestia, its first smartphone telescope. Ahead of Hestia’s scheduled December delivery date, Vaonis has announced Gravity by Vaonis, a beta app for the telescope. Vaonis is well known for its advanced smart telescopes. a compact and lightweight option. The company also makes a more robust telescope (the Hyperia Telescope Camera) with a massive 1050mm lens. The company’s most out-of-the-box offering, though, is the Hestia. The Vaonis Hestia turns a smartphone into a powerful telescope. The Hestia itself is highly compact and portable yet allows for 25x magnification to observe the Moon, Sun, and other celestial objects.

Hestia is the next evolution of portable telescopes that uses the power of smartphone sensors to photograph the Sun, the Moon and the cosmos. It combines a telephoto lens, which increases the zooming capability of smartphones by up to 25 times, and intelligent software that optimizes smartphone performance for astronomical photography.