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CES 2018 Highlights Global Innovation “VMI’s Best of the Best” By Vanguard Marketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com v.2 February 2018 ©2018 Vanguard Marketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com VMI’s 2018 CES Best of the Best - January 2018 480-488-5707 Pg | 1 Welcome to CES® 2018 – The Year of Artificial Intelligence CES is the largest global gathering of innovation and connectivity! Top takeaways: Partnerships are driving innovation via underlying advancements in autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Significant US and Chinese AI cooperation, communication and creativity with no boundary; a good thing? Human Augmentation, Assistants and Health/Wellness… providing extraordinary benefits for all of us! Broke last year’s record of more than 184,000 attendees – Each VMI analyst walked 27+ miles over 4 days! From more than 150 countries At Eureka Park: Over 900 startups 55,000 international attendees ➢ National Science Foundation, Kickstarter 4,000 exhibiting companies Indiegogo, and International Incubators 2.75 million ft2 of exhibit space 6,500 members of the media See What’s Next, Be What’s Next! 20+ years attending CES, 10+ Annual VMI CES Best-of-the-Best Reports VMI Analysts canvas the halls, uncover enabling technologies and breakthroughs, and help our clients apply them to new growth initiatives For a personal or executive team webinar tour – contact us at 480-488-5707 or [email protected] Source 2018 CES is a registered trademark of Consumer Technology Association ©2018 Vanguard Marketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com VMI’s 2018 CES Best of the Best - January 2018 480-488-5707 Pg | 2 #1 Everywhere at CES 2018 (no kidding) Voice/Virtual Assistant & Connectivity Behind the hype, Amazon, Google, Baidu, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung… are at War! What’s at stake? Control over your home, your purchases, your leisure, your life… Who will be the defacto winner? Who will know everything about you and what you buy? AI Assistants Who will get to serve you (their stuff, their ideas)? CES 2018 became the latest battleground for these global tech giants… ©2018 Vanguard Marketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com VMI’s 2018 CES Best of the Best - January 2018 480-488-5707 Pg | 3 VMI’s 2018 CES Top Picks and Best of the Best Last Year’s Disruptors Top Picks THE “WOW” VISION – BELL AIR TAXI ON-DEMAND –P5 Personal THE “WOW” BIG SCREENS – SAMSUNG & LG –P6 Favorites THE “WOW” PARTNERSHIPS – TUSIMPLE / NVIDIA AUTONOMY –P7 Best of the Best Smart Cities –p9 Power Charging & Battery –p17 AI and Autonomy: Our suggestion on how Databuoy – ShotPoint Shooter Detection OSSIA – Long Range Charging Processors at the Edge –p24 NEC NeoFace Recognition Wall ProLogium – Solid State Lithium Flexible Battery best to review ➢ Horizon Robotics Enterprise / Industry -p10 3D Additive Manufacturing and 3D Scanning –p18 ➢ Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick VMI’s Best of the Best… Turing Video Physical Security Robots and Drones Ethereal Machines – 5D Printing ➢ Intel Loihi, Neuropmorphic processor nUAViation Utility Drones ARTEC 3D AI based scanner ➢ Novumind Ai Accelerator Site1001 Building IoT Integration ➢Sit down, choose a Davis Instruments Agriculture IoT Integration Quantum Computing & Encryption –p19 Algorithm Training, Remotely Operated Vehicles -p25 section, start reading Dassault Systemes Incubator IBM Q ➢ Sigma Integrale – FM Vehicle Simulation and ROV Patent Dive DIY Patents Intel Tangle Lake ➢ Cognata – Sim/Mod Data Gigavation Gigashield Encryption ➢ Cvedia SynCity – Simulation for ML ➢Take you time and think AR/VR –p13 FLIR Systems / ARSENZ ThermoGlass Wearable Health & Wellness: Safety, Navigation, Anti Spoofing –p26 about the innovation LOOXID Labs VR & Eye Tracking AI Applied & Non Invasive Precision Health –p20 ➢ Intel Mobileye – Responsibility, Sensitive Safety (with a cup of coffee or NCCODEC Video Compression ➢ Selvas Checkup – Cancer/ Chronic AI Prediction ➢ Clearmotion – Active Car Suspension STM Brands – AR for Retailers ➢ Foodmarble – Manage Digestive Issues ➢ CivilMaps – Sensor-agnostic Vehicle Maps a glass of wine) AIPOLY – Assistant-Free Shopping ➢ Focus Ultrasound Foundation ➢ Regulus Cyber – Spoofing Protection ➢ Neural Analytics – Stroke to trauma Solid State LiDAR (machine vision) –p28 Touch –p15 ➢ Neurovalens – Neural Weight loss device ➢Then watch the Synaptics Optical In-Display Fingerprint Sensor ➢ Tetravue Ultrahaptics SDK for Mid-Air Haptics Adaptive Hearing, Speech, Vision –p22 ➢ LeddarTech corresponding video. Proximity NUI – New kind of HCI ➢ Nura Nuraphone – Adaptive Hearing ➢ Resound – Optimized hearing aid ➢Enjoy! Positioning / Imaging –p16 ➢ Tobii Dynavox – Speech generator TDK / AKM High Accuracy TMR 3-Axis Magnetometer ➢ PH Technical Labs Dynafocal – Adjusts focus LOKATUR Relative Positioning ➢ Orcam Technologies – For the Blind/Partial Blind On Semiconductor Digital Image / Depth Mapping YouTube icon - click on icon to launch each video. ©2018 Vanguard Marketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com VMI’s 2018 CES Best of the Best - January 2018 480-488-5707 Pg | 4 Return to Index THE “WOW” VISION - BELL AIR TAXI ON-DEMAND BELL Air Taxi – A New Level for Urban Air Mobility On-Demand Texas • Imagine -- a 10 minutes trip versus 1 ½ hours! • This seamlessly orchestrated experience by the Texas-based Bell Helicopter Company makes us believers in the future of on-demand air-commuting! It’s thrilling! A Winning Pedigree • This is about shared electric Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) transport that elevates us Capt. Charles Yeager Air Force’s Bell-built X-1 Supersonic Research Aircraft above congested streets and gets you where you need to be in a blink of an eye. Broke the sound barrier Oct 14, 1947 • Comfortable and relaxing; Bell wants eVTOL taxis to be accessible, affordable and reliable! • Bell is currently working with Uber to create a network of on-demand eVTOL aircraft. • And it’s closer than you think… target demonstration by 2020; On demand by 2025-2030… Dallas, New York, Dubai, and Los Angeles! Contact Jonathan at VMI to learn more about the Bell and their Air Taxi Bell Commercial Helicopters USMC Bell V-22 Osprey Video Credits: Wired Magazine Jan 2018 An Uber envisioned route ©2018 Vanguard Marketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com VMI’s 2018 CES Best of the Best - January 2018 480-488-5707 Pg | 5 Return to Index THE “WOW” BIG SCREENS – SAMSUNG & LG South Korea SAMSUNG 146-inch MicroLED 4K “The Wall” Modular TV • The World’s First Modular TV Wall measures 146 inches and uses MicroLED technology to produce its picture. Available this year; price not yet available • Scale up or down; Make it the size and number of screens you want. • The elimination of bezels has long been a market need, and could dominate the competition in increasingly competitive top tier segments. Driven by AI, gaming and business applications. Photo Credit: Slash Gear • And… yes, it doubles as a Bixby Assistant-enabled smart home hub SAMSUNG 85-inch 8K AI Technology • Samsung's AI technology based on machine learning analyzes the TV content and automatically upscales low-resolution 720p and 1080p images into 8K picture quality • Detail Creation (AI enhanced); Edge Restoration (sharp contrast out of grainy South Korea words); and Noise Reduction (making image crystal clear) Photo Credit: Samsung Website Photos Credit: Samsung Website Contact Jonathan at VMI to learn more about Big Screens and AI South Korea LG Rollable OLED & Smart Home Hub – CONCEPT • OLED TV W8 will be among the first TV’s to be powered by LG’s new a9 Intelligent Processor, which powers the new LG ThinQ AI solution that doubles as a Google Assistant-enabled smart home hub • The internal components are housed within a connected sound bar so they don’t occupy space behind the screen like they would normally. • It is currently a prototype; available in a few years. ©2018Photo Vanguard Credit: EngadgetMarketing International, Inc. www.e-vmi.com VMI’s 2018 CES Best of the Best - January 2018 480-488-5707 Pg | 6 Return to Index THE “WOW” PARTNERSHIPS - TUSIMPLE / NVIDIA AUTONOMY TUSIMPLE Autonomous Future of Long Haul Trucking - maybe as early as 2019 San Diego, China • Partnered with NVIDIA, TuSimple, a Chinese startup founded in 2015, presented its Level 4 autonomous technology in a Class 8 Peterbilt truck to the general public at CES 2018 for the first time • The company’s U.S. operations are based out of San Diego, and this past July it established a testing facility in Arizona, where the truck has successfully traveled about 10,000 miles between Phoenix and Tucson. • By the end of 2018, they hope to expand the fleet to 25 truck. • TuSimple has built a similar truck fleet in China, where real-world testing is also underway. Fleet caravans controlled by a single driver • Their full stack solution is built on the NVIDIA DRIVE computing platform, with 200-meter detection, tracking, and distance estimation using 9 EO video cameras and 3 Millimeter Wave Radar units. The system capabilities includes meter-level localization in various conditions, automated HD mapping with lane-level information. • Founded in 2015, $83.1M in VC funding; With the exception of Nvidia (Series B - 2017), all investors are based in China Photo Credit: Neil Abt / Fleet Owner • Core tech from: Caltech, Hong Kong Univ., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Nanyang Technological Univ., Waseda Univ., Toyota and General Motors Contact Laura at VMI to learn more about Autonomy Pegasus is built on California two Xavier SoCs and two next- generation NVIDIA NVIDIA Xavier is key to NVIDIA DRIVE, the Pegasus AI Computing Platform for Level 5 autonomy GPUs. • Xavier is a key part of the NVIDIA DRIVE Pegasus AI computing platform. Delivering the performance of a trunk full of PCs in an auto-grade form factor the size of a license plate, it’s the world’s first AI car supercomputer designed for fully autonomous Level 5 robotaxis. • Customers will get the first samples of Pegasus with its 320 trillion operations per second of processing performance in mid-2018.