Samsung will be showcasing four projects from their in-house acceleration program, C-Lab Inside, and 17 startups supported by its inaugural acceleration program, C-Lab Outside, at CES 2021. The C-Lab Inside projects a including a portable oxygen storage device. called Air Pocket, an IoT device that can sort clothing and recommend care options called Scan & Dive, a service called Food & Sommelier that pairs food and wine for your meals, and an app that capitalizing on the image quality of your TV called EZCal.
South Korean tech giant has announced the C-Lab Inside projects and startups under C-Lab Outside that it will appear at CES 2021, which starts on January 11 and runs until January 14. The projects that Samsung chose as a mirror of the habit of staying at home and, according to Samsung, focus on personalized products and services that cater to diverse lifestyles.
Among the initial C-Lab Outdoor stages that Samsung will be showcasing is Magpie Tech, which has been working on a growth control device for kids called ‘kiko’ (high scale in height and weight). Bitbyte will provide a keyboard theme service that has characters corresponding to the input text, and Designovel has built an AI-powered fashion design tool.
C-Lab Outside, created in October 2018, is a startup acceleration program that provides office space, counseling with Samsung employees, financial support, and more to scheduled startup levels.
Other C-Lab external devices on display at CES 2021 include a real-life avatar creation engine through 3D and VR / AR scanning by Flux Planet, anonymous AI-based personal information by Deeping Source, and a digital note-taking service that enables easy PDF editing using Flexcil pen gestures.
By creating 3D content from facial expressions and human movements, Flux Planet aims to provide solutions for VR / AR
Other exciting C-Lab Outdoors on display include an online K-pop training service by Counter Culture Company, and a fortune-telling conversation about fortune and character-based mindfulness care with Thingsflow.
Three startups from C-Lab Inside have been selected as an innovation honor at CES 2021 in the field of health and wellbeing by CTA (Consumer Technology Association). The winners are Luple, which has developed a portable and artificial sunlight device; Breathings, a maker of an IoT device that easily manages respiratory health; and Linkface, which has a neck band device that monitors bio-breathing and heart signals.
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