CES 2023 health tech devices ranged from wearables to sleep devices to elderly care and stress sensors. Exciting new products and services, such as snore-stifling pillows, urine-testing toilets, digital twins for safer surgeries, etc., were unveiled to improve consumer health and wellness.
Let’s know about them here:
Wearable health tech devices unveiled at CES 2023
Citizen unveiled a smartwatch that tracks if you’re OK
Citizen’s new CZ Smartwatch comes with an app called YouQ, which uses NASA research to predict fatigue patterns and help you be more productive throughout the day. Along with tracking heart rate, sleep quality and blood-oxygen levels, it will measure fatigue and alertness levels to know how you’re doing. It’ll also tell if you’re a night owl or an early bird!
Movano Health revealed its smart ring specially designed for Women
Movano Health’s Evie, the innovative smart ring for women, combines health and wellness metrics to give a complete picture of a woman’s health. It tracks fitness metrics, activity levels and vital signs alongside periods, ovulation, menstrual symptoms, moods, and sleep stages and duration.
Baracoda has released BHeart
BHeart is an activity sensor and heart rate monitor that can be worn as a bracelet or a watch strap. It is the world’s first self-charging health tracker wearable that harvests energy from body heat and environmental light, so it never runs out of battery.
Respiray revealed its Respiray Wear A+
Respiray has developed wearable, drug-free, allergy-free devices to alleviate allergy symptoms caused by airborne allergens such as pet dander, pollen, dust, and mould. It is rechargeable and has replaceable filters with HEPA technology.
SOVN released a smart solution for bruxism
SOVN is an in-ear wearable device that detects and reduces excessive teeth grinding and clenching. It monitors your jaw movements from the ear and interrupts the grinding or clenching as soon as it starts with soothing vibrations that don’t disrupt your sleep.
Starkey released Evolv AI hearing aids
The Evolv AI hearing aids are designed to emphasise the impact of hearing on overall health and wellness and offer a user-friendly experience. They are built on Starkey Sound technology, which uses machine learning to suppress background noise and increase speech audibility and intelligibility.
Frenz showed off its headband that’ll help you sleep
FRENZ Brainband is a hospital-grade brain-tracking wearable that improves sleep. It captures brain signals and bio-vitals in real-time, analysing data to activate personalised therapies via bone-conduction speakers for faster sleep onset and deeper sleep for refreshing mornings.
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Digital health devices for better sleep at CES 2023
Sleep is as important to us as it has always been, and many products launched at CES 2023 promise better quality shut-eye.
Breeze earbuds:
LG has introduced the Breeze earbuds, which use sensor data to estimate how much time the wearer spends in each of the three sleep states (REM, light and deep sleep). They can also play soothing sounds to help you sleep.
Pepaminto mattress topper
Variowell Development, a German startup, has released the Pepaminto mattress topper, which works with an Apple Watch to heat or cool different areas of a bed for better sleep.
Hatch Restore 2
The newer version of Hatch Restore, Hatch Restore 2 is your bedside sleep companion. It uses light and sound to improve each stage of the sleep cycle. It includes “morning moments,” which allow users to include inspirational messages or a brief workout routine.
Snore-silencing pillow
Motion pillow by 10Minds with an integrated microphone that detects snoring and activates silent airbags that adjust in size to gently shift a sleeper’s head to a posture that facilitates quiet breathing.
ANSSil Sleepinbody Mattress
ANSSil mattress is a digital healthcare mattress that provides personalised solutions for a better sleep experience. By collecting data on body and sleep behaviour, the mattress can adjust its firmness and temperature to match the user’s sleep pattern and posture. It also has a far-infrared radiation skin-care topper that helps to improve the user’s overall sleep quality and comfort.
Somalytics eye tracking sleep mask
SomaSleep is an eye mask that uses lightweight capacitive sensors to track eye movements like REM and detect sleep disruptions. Providing insights into sleep patterns, it helps users identify and address potential issues to improve overall sleep quality.
CES 2023 health tech devices for elderly care
Aloe Care Health’s advanced medical alert system
With features for care coordination, health, and safety, Aloe Care designed an advanced medical alert and communication system. It provides a full solution for remote caring and closes important gaps for both older people and carers.
Aeolus Robotics’ robot for the elderly
The robot Aeo is equipped to do tasks like open doors, carry things, disinfect surfaces, push buttons on elevators, etc., to help the elderly. It can even take selfies!
Kepler Night Nurse
It is Kepler Vision Technologies’ fall detection system. One of the most accurate in healthcare, its AI-powered sensor technology can identify falls among elderly patients in under a minute.
SMARTBM by BLISSTECH
It is a bedsore management device that helps older adults prevent bedsores. It uses advanced machine vision and AI technology to track lying posture and provide customised solutions for maintaining healthy skin and posture.
CarePredict CareGuide
A wearable device that predicts health declines in older adults. CarePredict device tracks daily activity and behaviour patterns, physiological signals such as heart rate and pulse oximetry and vital signs, allowing caregivers to remotely monitor the elderly and provide personalised and proactive healthcare.
CES 2023 health tech devices that examine human waste
Would you believe that at CES 2023, some entrepreneurs were showcasing technology that allows for a more in-depth analysis of our bodily waste? Yes, it’s true. It featured several startups that are looking to revolutionise how we monitor our health by analysing our urine and faeces.
U-Scan by Withings
Withings released its U-Scan, a hands-free urine scanner that lives in your toilet and offers information about digestive and reproductive health. Even telling you who’s actually peeing.
Urine analyser by Olive Health
Israeli startup Olive is using optics to analyse urine and has developed a special toilet seat that can do so without the need for strips or additional accessories. It’s targeting care homes and vulnerable populations with its product.
Smart toilet by Vivoo
Vivoo has created a smart toilet that gives users a convenient alternative to hand-held urine test strips. The smart toilet dispenses a urine test strip and slurps it back for analysis, not requiring you to hold the strips.
Special Zone Master (SZM) is developing technology to analyse stool shapes, colours, and the presence of blood.
While several products are launched during CES, not all of them see the market light. It’s unclear how soon some of these products will be available in the market. But it’s certainly an interesting development in the world of healthcare.
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