The world's biggest technology fair, CES in Las Vegas, kicked off early this week. The Netherlands is also represented with 53 startups. Which innovations from our little froggy country will be on show?
CES is the fair where the world's biggest tech companies, such as Apple, Google and Tesla, show their latest innovations and products. But many - pioneering - startups from all over the world are also present. The website nlintheusa.com has listed all the Dutch startups and companies presenting at the electronics fair. 'We' participate in categories such as 'Health and Wellness', 'Consumer Tech' and 'Robotics', among others, and even have the largest country stand of the entire fair. What are eye-catching startups?
AV VR and Gaming:
Sense Glove: Delft-based Sense Glove has developed a glove that allows a user to pick up and touch an object in virutal reality. The device serves, on the one hand, to give input to the computer (by telling the device what movements the fingers are making) and, on the other hand, provides force feedback. This gives the user the feeling of picking up an object in VR. The first version of the Sense Glove is intended for professional developers, but the company also plans to build a more affordable version for gamers.
Consumer Tech:
INVI: INVI is a bracelet that can serve as a self-defence mechanism. The bracelet emits an inhospitable scent that should keep attackers at bay.
Roader: It could just be that in a few years everyone will be walking around with a Roader. This is a portable 'time machine camera'. The moment the start button is pressed, the camera goes back 10 seconds and records 10 seconds that come after.
SwipeGuide: This is a digital platform on which visual user guides can be created and shared.
Travis the Translator: This new novel way of translating combines intelligent software and specially designed hardware to ensure that everyone, regardless of language, can communicate with each other
eCommerce and Enterprise Solutions:
Ahrma: Ahrma, a company that entered the market in 2016 with a 'smart palette', is showing its comprehensive active sensor technology for transport packaging at CES. This makes the supply chain more transparent.
Scalys: The Grapeboard designed by Scalys is a unique embedded module for securing electronics from various industries.
Health and wellness:
IV Walk: A portable infusion to increase patient mobility.
Ninthway - Care Watch: This is a multifunctional alarm button that alerts, reminds, monitors and connects. The system is aimed mainly at elderly people living in rural or remote areas, and allows the user to talk to family, informal carers or care facilities. Using sensors, the watch can also independently call for help when the user is no longer able to do so. For example, when the watch signals an abnormal temperature or heart rate. In theory, there are more possibilities. GPs and care institutions can monitor their clients remotely if they wish.
Somnox: Somnox is the world's first sleep robot that improves users' sleep through breath regulation, sounds and even a form of affection.
Uvisio: Eindhoven-based UVisio has invented a small device that you simply buckle onto your clothes and measures the amount of solar radiation. If you go over a certain limit, the wearer gets a signal on the mobile phone to reapply sunscreen or get out of the sun.
Kids and Tech:
Hyko: A smart polar bear lamp for parents and children.
Picoo: Picoo combines two things children love: interactive technology and playing outside. Picoo's games are played on a specially designed device: picooTM. It is specially designed for outdoor activities; the robust device can take a beating. Interactive technology (such as light, sound and vibration) makes playing together that little bit more fun.
Smart City and Mobility:
Chargetrip: Intelligent routing for electric mobility.
Lightyear: Lightyear One is an electric car that charges itself through sunlight. The car incorporates solar panels.
Omniradar: Omniradar is building a 'one-chip radar', where the entire radar including antennas and analogue-to-digital conversion are integrated into one small piece of silicon for the 60 GHz frequency band. According to the makers, this is the first time this has been realised in the industry.
Solar Monkey: This startup by two young Dutchmen offers software for solar panels. With it, a solar panel system can be designed and sold efficiently and, in addition, the exact yield of the panels can be calculated.
By: Kelly Bakker
Source: nlintheusa.com/deingeneur.nl
Photos: Somnox, Care Watch, Picoo,.
