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KAIST Pavilion showcased 12 KAIST startups and alumni companies’ technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020 held in Las Vegas last month. Especially four companies, TEGWAY, THE.WAVE.TALK, Sherpa Space, and LiBEST won the CES 2020 Innovation Awards presented by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The CTA selects the most innovative items from among all submissions.

TEGWAY spinned off by KAIST Professor Byung Jin Cho already made international headlines for their flexible, wearable, and temperature immersive thermoelectric device. The device was selected as one of the top ten most promising digital technologies by the Netexplo Forum in 2015, and has been expanded into VR, AR, and games.

THE.WAVE.TALK has developed their first home appliance product in collaboration with ID+IM Design Laboratory of KAIST in which Professor Sang-Min Bae heads as creative director. Their real-time bacteria analysis with smart IoT sensor won the home appliances section. 

Sherpa Space and LiBEST are the alumni companies. Sherpa Space’s lighting for plants won the sustainability, eco-design, and smart energy section, and LiBEST’s full-range flexible battery won the section for technology for a better world.

KAIST’s Alumni Association, Development Foundation, and the Office of University-Industry Cooperation (OUIC) made every effort to present KAIST technologies to the global market. President Sung-Chul Shin led the delegation comprising of 70 faculty, researchers, and young entrepreneurs. The KAIST Alumni Association fully funded the traveling costs of 30 alumni entrepreneurs and students, establishing scholarship for the CES participation. Ten young entrepreneurs were selected through the KAIST Startup Awards, and 20 current students preparing to start their own companies were selected via recommendation from the respective departments. 

Associate Vice President of the OUIC Kyung Cheol Choi said in excitement, “We received many offers for joint research and investment from leading companies around the world,” adding, “We will continue doing our best to generate global value by developing the innovative technologies obtained from education and research into businesses.”

The KAIST pavilion at CES 2020 showcased:

1. flexible thermoelectric device ThermoReal and cooling gaming headset from TEGWAY,

2. wearable flexible battery from LiBEST,

3. applications such as conductive transparent electrode film and transparent heating film from J-Micro,

4. on-device AI solution based on deep learning model compression technology from Nota,

5. portable high resolution brain imaging device from OBELAB,

6. real-time bacteria analysis technology from THE.WAVE.TALK,

7. conversation-based AI-1 radio service platform from Timecode Archive,

8. light source solutions for different stages in a plant’s life cycle from Sherpa Space,

9. skin attached micro-LED patch and flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensor from FRONICS,

10. real-time cardiovascular measurement device from Healthrian,

11. block chain based mobile research documentation system from ReDWit, and

12. student-developed comprehensive healthcare device using a smart mirror.

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