Next-Gen Wearables + Beauty Tech at CES 2024 🔥

🔥 Today’s Theme: CES 2024- Fashion, Wellness, and Tech

📌 CES Wearables Overview: The world of wearables has evolved far beyond fitness.

📌 Mind Matters- Focusing on Mental Health: CES 2024 spotlighted the growing importance of mental well-being.

📌 The Future of Retail- Spotlight on Walmart: Walmart shared its vision for the future of retail at CES and unveiled a series of innovations.

📌 The Beauty Tech Revolution: From smart skincare devices to AI-powered beauty assistants.

📌 Brittany’s Corner: A personal touch!

The World of Wearables ⌚️👓

Wearables have come a long way from just counting steps or monitoring heart rates. At CES this year, wearables offered a wide variety of functionalities to complement our daily lives. One of the most exciting advancements in the world of wearables (in my opinion) is the integration of augmented reality (AR). Let's take a look at some innovative wearables from CES 2024.

ASUS AirVision M1 Smart Glasses

Introducing the AirVision M1 - a wearable device that eliminates the need for multiple monitors. The device provides a unique multi-monitor experience in a stylish and sleek format. It's perfect for professionals who value their privacy as the content is only visible to the wearer. With this device, multitasking has been redefined, combining functionality with fashion.

Zepp Health’s Amazfit Helio Ring

This smart ring is specifically engineered for high-intensity performance and recovery. It monitors both physical and mental well-being which, together, make up your ‘Readiness’ score. This score comes from metrics like activity levels, heart rate, sleep quality, etc. The ring offers advanced health tracking features so users can optimize both training and recovery. There’s also a subscription service with the app that provides detailed sleep reports, meditation sounds, and an AI chatbot called “Zepp Wellness Coach” that can analyze sleep patterns and answer wellness questions.

Evolve MVMT

The Evolve MVMT ankle wearable, which made its debut at CES 2024, is a wearable that doesn’t just count steps but focuses on the quality of each step to reduce joint stress. The wearable analyzes how your heel strikes the ground and provides insights into your walking pattern. Evolve MVMT uses a method called 'light walking' to minimize heel striking, a common issue leading to joint discomfort and injuries. Studies have shown that using the Evolve MVMT technique can lead to burning 36% more calories than traditional walking methods.

There’s also the Baliston by STARK Smart Shoe which analyzes your gait biometrics and over time is used to create customized insoles catered to your walking style.

📢 Buzzword of the day: Gait. Gait apparently refers to the way a person walks or runs- it’s all about the pattern of movement.

🧠💆‍♀️ Mind Matters: Focusing on Mental Health

Apollo Neuro

The Apollo Neuro is a wearable device designed to optimize heart rate variability (HRV) and manage stress, enhancing overall well-being. The Apollo Neuro uses gentle vibrations to stimulate the nervous system to boost energy or promote relaxation. It has seven different vibration modes and users have reported better sleep, improved focus, and more!

NOWATCH

This unique wearable, NOWATCH, focuses on stress tracking and mindfulness. There are interchangeable faces which allows users to choose between a traditional style watch and a magnetic face. It includes an AI companion app that provides personalized daily recaps and stress management insights.

Baracoda BMind Smart Mirror

The BMind Smart Mirror was one of the products to win a 2024 CES innovation award. This AI-powered smart mirror provides a unique way to manage stress and mental health. The mirror uses generative AI and natural language processing to identify the user’s mood and suggest exercises like guided meditation or self-affirmations.

The Future of Retail- Spotlight on Walmart 💻 🛒

A couple of things mentioned in Walmart’s Keynote at CES:

New GenAI-Powered Search Experience: Walmart is enhancing its Generative AI-powered search experience. The goal is to transform how we find products online, making the process more intuitive, personalized, and efficient.

Social Commerce Platform: Embracing the intersection of retail and social media, Walmart unveiled a new social commerce platform, “Shop With Friends”. This will allow shoppers to share virtual outfits with friends in real-time, using Augmented Reality (AR).

👠 Fashion Forward at CES 2024

The Kooples x IMKI: This unique collaboration brought an AI-powered capsule collection to CES, merging The Kooples' iconic fashion pieces with the innovative capabilities of generative AI.

RANRA x Lenovo: This collaboration highlights the seamless integration of technology and fashion. The Lenovo Tab Wear Collection, developed with RANRA and other designers, features garments that physically incorporate Lenovo tablets (pockets, privacy viewing hood.. etc.).

👁️ The Beauty Tech Revolution

Nimble Manicures

An AI and robotics-powered device that offers salon-worthy manicures at home. The device is pretty cool… it utilizes high-resolution micro-cameras and 3-D imaging to assess nail shape, size, and curvature, followed by a robotic arm that applies the polish.

L'Oréal's Beauty Tech

Airlight Pro: A connected hairdryer that uses infrared light to preserve moisture and save energy.

Colorsonic: Easy-to-use, brush-like hair coloring device.

Beauty Genius App: AI-supported “virtual personal advisor” that recommends skincare and makeup products tailored to skin type.

Female-Focused Wearables Shine at CES 2024 🤖👗

Garmin Lily 2 Smartwatch

Garmin's Lily 2 is a sleek smartwatch aimed primarily at women. The Lily 2 offers comprehensive health monitoring features, including continuous heart rate monitoring, respiration, Pulse Ox, stress, and sleep tracking. It also tracks physical activity and has smart features like message notifications, weather updates, and a calendar.

Garmin HRM-Fit Chest Strap

Designed to clip onto medium and high-support sports bras, the HRM-Fit chest strap is for women who find traditional chest straps uncomfortable. It's compatible with various sports bra brands and can be used for running, cycling, strength training, and HIIT classes, and more! The strap links with compatible Garmin smartwatches and Edge cycling computers to broadcast data.

Evie Ring

Evie is a smart ring from Movano Health specifically designed for women. The ring is made from scratch-resistant metal and features a small gap on the ring surface to accommodate fluctuations in finger size due to hormonal changes. Evie is designed to focus on women’s biometrics and includes an AI-based trend analysis beyond basic activity scores. It provides insights into menstrual health, mood, energy, sleep, and activity.

Brittany’s Corner 💬✨

Walmart’s Retail Strategy: Adaptive Retail

In Walmart’s keynote, the CEO discussed their new “adaptive retail” strategy. Adaptive retail is about creating a highly personalized shopping experience while ensuring that customers get what they need, when they need it, with maximum convenience. This model could well set the trend for retailers in 2024.

CES Spotlight Product: The Anura Magic Mirror

NuraLogix unveiled a pretty cool product that won them an innovation award for innovation in Digital Health. The Anura Magic Mirror analyzes facial blood flow and can assess vital signs and health risks in a 30-second scan.

Innovative Inks: Imprintu and Prinker

There were a couple of temporary tattoo printers at CES (random, I know!). Both Imprintu and Prinker offer a painless and commitment-free method of body art.

Imprintu was developed by LG Household & Health Care and the portable temporary tattoo printer has gained traction among millennials and Gen Z on TikTok. Imprintu can also be used on sustainable clothing materials.

Prinker also applies temporary tattoos and can print on skin or paper. The device pairs with a mobile app that offers thousands of designs or users can upload their own designs.

I was talking to ChatGPT about Prinker and Imprintu and it spit out a photo in its response so I decided to include it below.

All of these futuristic inventions got me inspired so I dreamed up a few products of my own on X! We’re not quite at AR tattoos yet but maybe next year at CES!

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