Samsung to Show Off Smart Glasses, Directional Speaker at CES

Samsung today offered a peek at 3 new projects brewing within its in-firm idea incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab).

The tech giant plans to show off the projects—a portable directional speaker dubbed Sound Ray (South-Ray), a device chosen GoBreath that tin can help people with lung damage, and a pair of smart eyeglasses with an accompanying app called Relúmino—at CES in Las Vegas side by side calendar week.

Samsung outset showed off its Relúmino app at Mobile Globe Congress last year, and now the team behind information technology has adult a pair of smart eyeglasses that can "assist people with vision challenges see images clearer when they are reading a book or viewing an object," the visitor wrote in a news release.

"The spectacles work in conjunction with a smartphone, utilizing its processors and batteries, which makes Relúmino glasses light and comfortable to wearable," Samsung explained. "The smartphone processes images from videos projected through the camera of the spectacles, and the processed images are floated into the brandish of the Relúmino glasses to help the wearer see things ameliorate."

Meanwhile, the GoBreath recovery solution is for those suffering from postoperative pulmonary complications. Developed by a doctor at the Samsung Medical Center, the portable device and mobile app aim to teach patients techniques such as inhalation, coughing, and deep breathing.

"Patients tin refer to practice guidelines and bank check how well their lungs accept recovered through the app," Samsung wrote. "GoBreath fifty-fifty offers a web and cloud service for doctors to assist them monitor their patients' recovery progress likewise as provide reminders to practice."

Finally, South-Ray aims to permit yous heed to music or podcasts without having to clothing uncomfortable earphones, or annoying others around you past playing music over a Bluetooth speaker. Existing directional speakers are "primarily stationary due to their size and price," Samsung says, but S-Ray is "much smaller, lighter and portable…while maintaining the advantages of conventional directional speakers and/or earphones."

Besides those three projects, seven startups that have spun out of C-Lab will showcase newly released products that are hit the marketplace. Those startups include Linkflow, Kitten Planet, lululab, Kidsoft, Mangoslab, Innomdle lab, and counterpart plus.

"Since launching five years ago, our C-Lab program has gained exciting momentum beyond Samsung, helping foster an innovation civilization, and providing artery for our creative, talented employees to pursue innovative new projects," Vice President and Head of Samsung's Inventiveness & Innovation Center Jaiil Lee said in a statement. "Nosotros will continuously introduce innovative projects through our C-Lab program."

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Pedagogy yoga for almost ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, heart charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength grooming machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart abode devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.