Every year at CES, products and companies from around the world show off what they’ve been working on behind closed doors. CES 2022 was a different kind of show, but it did not disappoint. Below are our pics for the most innovative products across all categories, and technology that either innovates, or exemplifies products in their fields. By either using existing technology in a new way or refining it to the greater benefit of its users, these are our Top Tech Award winners for CES 2022.
Kinoo is a video chat app that includes interactive games and activities, developed by experts, to help far-away family members play and learn together with the children they love — just like they are in the same room. Add a Kinoo wand for the child to use – it allows the app to leverage augmented reality and interpretive motion to enhance the experience beyond the touch screen.
The dedicated team behind this product really wants to create a connected future for older adults and young kids. A 4-year-old is not going to engage in a meeting, and this is a problem many people have experienced over the pandemic. By blending innovative AR and learning apps with a way to bring two extremely separate age groups, Kinoo has shown truly new approach to an underserved problem.
LG C2 is a TV based on OLED display technology with 4K resolution and flat design. It was launched in 2022 and is available in 42″, 48″, 55″, 65″, 77″, 83″ sizes. OLED Evo is one of the special features of this TV.
Bringing OLED to the masses with smaller form factors, it’s no secret that previously OLED has been locked behind a $1500 and up paywall, with massive screen sizes to boot. Finally bringing the size down, and thereby the price, this will be most peoples first foray into the gorgeous world of OLED. Packed with tons of AI goodies to boot, there’s no doubt LG was a standout this year in terms of displays at CES 2022.
State of the art Tri-Band WiFi 6E Router, TP-Link has managed to capture our imaginations and our eyes with this sleek, robotic router. Stagnant antennas have long since been a problem, with most consumers never touching them once the router is set up. Bringing automation to bear, TP-Link managed to improve signal quality with very little input from the end user.
Even non-car journalists and tech fans were wowed by the fascinating new technology, which allowed the BMW iX to change its exterior color from white to black and back again. However, some car enthusiasts, while impressed by the tech itself, struggled to find a real-world use-case scenarios for the tech, other than showing off.
While the practicality shown by BMW has very limited uses, it does show using a well-known tech and applying it in a new way. E-ink has long used for e-readers, such as the Kindle, but this was awesome to see. Don’t expect this any time soon, though it does have exemplify what CES is all about.
From slanted walls and kitchen tables to outdoor surfaces and floors, The Freestyle’s 180 degree design gives you the flexibility to point, play and enjoy a big screen experience. With its round, compact shape, you can easily slip it into a backpack and take your entertainment on the go. Portable projectors are not new, but they have been terrible. At most, one can expect “good enough” from a lot of these products. The Freestyle seemed to truly be pushing the brightness in the smaller form factor and trying to carve out a new market from these types of products. Bringing a screen anywhere you want, with a decent speaker, and smart technology, Samsung might be able to do just that. While you are paying a premium for this product, it is not unjust. A great surprise winner for Samsung at CES 2022.
The Smart Dog Collar has won 2 CES Innovation Awards and is the first connected collar for dogs to give you a window into your pet’s health over the long-term and make it possible to react quickly before it’s too late. When coupled with accurate real-time GPS tracking, you will never worry about your dog again.
While we have noticed a large bevy of pet-friendly products, getting your animal the full benefits of them are less than guaranteed. Automated feeders, automatic water bowls, automatic dog walkers, automatic pet cameras. So, when finding the right balance of smart tech and pet management, we feel Invoxia has truly walked the line. Offering not just tracking, but full health coverage, these will be standard in time. Helping pets and people be the best caretakers possible, all through passive monitoring. A great use of their existing technology in a new way.
The Movano Ring partners with you, pairing our information with your intuition, our knowledge with your body, our vision with your voice—so you can live your best life. Your ring measures heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep, respiration, temperature, blood oxygen, steps and calories. It can tell you why you slept the way you did, and that your resting heart rate’s higher.
Blending fashion and technology is never easy. Either a company has the fashion sense of a block of cheese, or they have the technical sense of one, few companies can pull it off. But with Movano, we felt they really managed to merge form and function. From a typical smart fitness tracker, they have shrunk it down to the size of a ring. While keeping a sleek and modern design. Looking forward to what Movano has in store when they fully launch their product.
The OWC Atlas Pro media cards have been engineered with performance and reliability in mind, allowing professional photographers and videographers to shoot and transfer RAW images and up to 8K video footage with the highest possible workflow efficiency.
With improving standards, comes growing pains. But OWC has met them head on with compatible, high-speed, high-density memory cards. These will truly allow for everyday professionals to better work in native 8K resolutions. Great to see OWC keeping ahead of the curve in terms of hardware for macs and more.
Our mission is to close the digital divide. We believe that great technology should not cost the earth nor the planet. To do so, we’re crafting low cost, intuitive products that is robust and build to last. No unnecessary luxury. Just great design, easy to use and affordable for anyone.
Introducing abacus_basic, a fully fledge personal computer compressed into a keyboard. It works with any form of display and the wireless keyboard comes apart so you can even use it from the sofa. Engineered to last and made from recycled acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plastics.
A hidden gem of CES 2022, we really enjoyed not only the mission of bringing technology to underserved communities, but their desire to maintain sustainability and affordability. None of this at the cost of design. Sleek, elegant, inexpensive, and eco-friendly, Pentaform has managed to do something that not even the largest companies on earth could attempt. I look forward to seeing their vision become a reality for millions.
Experience a new level of visual performance and upgrade your gameplay on the XG321UG, featuring Mini LED technology that redefines expectations. Engineered with a pixel dense 4K Ultra HD resolution that renders every detail with incredible brightness on our VESA certified DisplayHDR™ 1400 panel. Geared with a rapid 144Hz refresh rate for ultrasmooth gameplay, and a 3ms (GTG) response time to reduce in-game ghosting. Equipped with NVIDIA® G-Sync Ultimate to handle even the most intense action scenes and paired with NVIDIA® Reflex for extreme low latency.
ViewSonic has a unique way of making monitors for every subset of user, while really hitting the high notes for all of them. Their work professional panels are amazing for color accuracy for example. But when it comes to gaming, we felt that ViewSonic was really pushing the specs in the right direction for their users. High refresh rates, miniLED for great visuals, and while keeping the price down to something akin to affordable. Great showing from a company that certainly has a great understanding of what audience they are targeting.
The PORTL M is a portable, sleek display that offers all the amazing features of the Epic in a portable, tabletop form. The PORTL M is PORTL Cloud-compatible and also capable of live streaming or displaying scheduled volumetric content. The M provides easy accessibility for volumetric communications between businesses and everyday people.
A concept that has captured our pop culture for decades, it’s great to see a company finally deliver on holograms. Beyond just the buggy pictures of R2D2, these are high quality, almost lifelike images that can be displayed in the home. Bringing in potential for students, patients, professionals, and more. A bleeding edge display that captures the imagination as much as the eye.
Vital sign data is delivered directly to your HCP for instant monitoring or review of Trends. Whether monitoring at home or in a LTC setting, privacy is important. Contact Free, Continuous Monitoring offers privacy while still safely monitoring the resident as they recover in their home or room without interfering with his/her quality of life.
With an aging population that could benefit from around-the-clock care, non-invasive monitoring technology will be a key to the future dignity and wellbeing of many people who would otherwise be worse off. And with a super unobtrusive technology, this will change so much for so many.