Smartphone Cases Made with Natural Nacre

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E18] Artimo introduces a smartphone case made with natural nacre at KITAS 2017, which will be held from August 10 to 12 at COEX. Nacre is made from thinly carved inner pieces of shells of abalone or clam. Nacre is characterized by reflecting light differently depending on angles of view. In other words, nacre is so attractive with light that it is even considered as artwork.
The nacre case is characterized by its outstanding patterns when colored with nacre plate that has been glued together, piece by piece, or diffusing indescribable effects that combine light that penetrates through ink on the surface of nacre with printed colors and drawings.
Many people ask whether a nacre case is too fragile, but the company’s nacre case has been manufactured by putting thin nacre pieces together, up to 0.2 to 0.3mm in thickness, and printing with urethane special coating, so it will not break even if it is dropped.
Designs also vary to satisfy the diverse tastes of consumers. There is a modern pattern series, which allows the original colors and patterns of nacres to shine, a traditional portrait series, which combines Korean traditional portraits with modern tastes, an Oriental painting series, which reproduce artworks of old masters in traditional style, and a lovely modern series, full of love and sensitivity. Also, it is possible to customize the designs as nacre cases can be printed in small quantities. They can be produced even in hundreds, not necessarily in thousands.
In the beginning, several companies introduced nacre cases, but currently, Artimo can be considered as the only surviving company with capabilities of manufacturing the nacre cases, starting from design to nacre processing with technical skills, as other companies have lost their competitiveness due to high unit costs caused by additional development and outsourcing.


This has been possible because Yoon Jae-sam, CEO of Artimo, has considerable expertise, such as product planning and manufacturing skills from his previous experience in the manufacturing industry, not to mention his university major in design.
Artimo launched its business in 2012 by releasing test products after having grafted nacre processing skills into manufacturing smartphone cases, and the market responded very positively, domestically as well as overseas.
In response to this hot reaction, Artimo entered the Gyeonggi-do Souvenir Contest in 2012 and won a gold prize. In the same year, Artimo was awarded in the Korea Souvenir Contest hosted by the Korea Tourism Organization. Artimo continues to develop new products every year and strives to win more awards in related contests.

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RUAWALK: The First Music-Guided Walking Tempo Controller

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E17] We all know that walking has many health benefits. Walking at the right tempo can affect your mood, confidence, fitness and well-being. However, walking is actually a monotonous exercise, so you can easily find walking boring.
Now, RUAWALK can help you enjoy walking by breaking the boredom of walking and get better workout results. The 3D gaming UI and dynamic walking music (RUAMUSIC) provides you with a fun experience.
RUAWALK is a music-guided walking tempo controller designed for having fun walking and saving exercise time.
With scientifically designed walking programs and tempo guiding music, RUAWALK maximizes the walking effect versus time. All you have to do is to listen to the music and step to the beat in time as you play like rhythm action games (Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up). For your perfect walking, voice feedback traces your workout and helps you step perfectly.
RUAWALK has five different walking programs that are designed for specific purposes so that you can get the best workout results by up to 30-minutes walking. Each program has dynamic walking profiles where walking tempo changes for each section.
In order to help you maintain your workout regimen, RUAMUSIC is designed to provide a wide variety of musical contents including EDM, R&B, Jazz, etc. Healthcare professionals develop customized music perfectly synchronized with walking speed profile. You can choose any walking program and music based on your daily condition and mood.
Established in 2014, Wearable Healthcare Inc. is a professional value-centered company. RUAWALK (the first music-guided walking tempo controller) is the first product that demonstrates its creative problem-solving ability with innovative features. It helps people to break the boredom and limitations of walking.

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Smart RoboPET (PET-Robot CCTV)

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E16] These days a pet is also a part of the family but often there is nobody take care our pets when we go to work or on a trip.
You only worry about their health and feeding, but we thought that what we can do for a left alone pet in the house: feeding, communicating, playing with them, and so forth. But it is too costly to provide all these services.
So, ELF came up with an idea to use a smartphone and tablet PC no longer in use. This concept will replace the main parts of the product and offers a sure method to off er price competitiveness.
ELF has exerted all possible efforts to create a more suitable design for pets in the home, the proper size for playing with the pet, and user-friendly applications based on Android and IOS.
As a result, “GURU PET” was finally born, and with this product, you can communicate with your lovely Pet anytime and anywhere!

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Portable Bluetooth Speakers

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E15] BUMJIN C&L introduces portable Bluetooth speakers (Tonn brand) at the 7th Smart Device Show 2017 (KITAS 2017) to be held at COEX, Seoul.
Tonn is a lifestyle audio brand launched by BUMJIN C&L, a manufacturer of sound equipment producing 60 million speaker units per year, and obtaining as many as 61 patents. BUMJIN C&L will be introducing its ultra-small Bluetooth accessory speaker line, the ‘Pocket Series’ (BTA-301, BTA-302) at KITAS 2017.
BTA-301 is a super-light, small and powerful portable speaker. Although the BTA-301 is as small as a smart key, it plays your music in fullness and clarity, with its advanced diaphragm design technology. IPX4 level water resistant, the BTA-301 provides eight hours of playtime, allowing you to take your music wherever you go, be it land or water. BTA-301 will offer you a convenient lifestyle, with its additional functions of selfie remote control, flashlight and anti-lost alert.


BTA-302 is a portable Bluetooth speaker combined with a laser-pointer function. You can be prepared for any unexpected presentations or meetings, playing sound contents and highlighting key areas of your slides. Although the BTA-302 is as small as a smart key, it plays your music in fullness and clarity, with its advanced diaphragm design technology. Easy to carry, it is available anytime and anywhere; a pocket pouch included.
BTA-302 will offer you a convenient lifestyle, with its additional functions of selfie remote control, flashlight and anti-loss alert.
BUMJIN C&L was established in 2004 with a motto of ‘creativity and lifestyle.’ In order to meet customers’ needs, BUMJIN C&L provides a one-stop service, from R&D to manufacturing. BUMJIN C&L comes up with creative and comfortable designs for customers, and new paradigms of audio technology adapting eco-friendly new material.

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Release of a Smart Elevator Operating Panel

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiryThe information delivery system of an elevator installed and operating currently in a building is only a simple information delivery function that a passenger in an elevator or a person waiting for an elevator has no choice but to understand at the moment when an elevator stops; in other words, using the number of the floor where an elevator stops. It limits satisfaction of an elevator users and effi cient operation of an elevator.

The smart elevator operating panel of Jin Tech helps smart elevator operation, such as improvement of user satisfaction, crime prevention, fast moving and power saving, by making an elevator skip unnecessary floors by checking all floors where an elevator is expected to stop by displaying, in real-time, information on floors where an elevator stops on the internal/external operating panel. It helps prevent crime and quickly detects whether a person boards an elevator or not through the internal monitor installed on the operating panel on the outside of an elevator.

The elevator’s internal situation monitor can monitor a passenger’s situation through an internal situation monitor. Therefore, it can prevent crime and improves satisfaction of a passenger by moving fast and saving power without operating an elevator unnecessarily (stop and start, opening and closing of an elevator door) due to boarding operation restrictions of people waiting on each floor caused by overcrowding of an elevator.
The elevator stopping floor information panel displays, in real-time, the information on floors where an elevator in operation stops. Therefore, it improves user satisfaction of passengers and people waiting for an elevator and leads to power-saving by restricting the unnecessary use of an elevator. The advertisement and notice monitor reflects today’s information-oriented society by providing an effi cient information service to people waiting for an elevator.

 

Striving to foster the IT convergence industry

Jin Tech was established on April 12, 2013 as a one-man creation company developing IT convergence products with the business philosophy, “a leading company developing smart products.” Jin Tech developed “a smart elevator operating panel” and “a multisensory cognitiveperceptual pegboard.” These products are higher value added products converging IT technology into existing products. Jin Tech is trying to foster the IT convergence industry by commercializing these products by pioneering domestic/overseas blue ocean markets. For this, Jin Tech registered “the elevator operating situation cognizing system,” the patent on smart elevator operating panel, in Korea (10-13041741) and China (ZL 201280055850.0)

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A Global Leader in the Medical Diagnostic Equipment

https://korean-electronics.com//inquirySG HealthCare is a global leader in the medical diagnostic equipment industry with world-class technology advancements. Today, SG HealthCare continues to spread the importance of “Seeing more and “Knowing Better” as opposed to mere diagnosis. The information gathered through its systems allows acute analysis, thus increasing the chance of saving lives.
X-ray, MRI & ultrasound systems made by SG HealthCare are widely used all over the world, from the tiniest mobile clinics to national hospitals. SG HealthCare has proven itself to be revolutionizing the field of medical diagnostic systems and continues to help people all around the world feel better.
Q40, which is an ultrasound system, innovatively improves 1D diagnostic images expressing figures in the body and ultrasound data used in 3D and 4D. It also increases competitiveness in terms of efficient acquisition of the amount of information and speed. It enables faster acquisition of more accurate information compared to existing products and accordingly, makes precise diagnosis available by increasing the image quality significantly.
Jumong series, which is a DR & Analog system, is a representative product (x-ray) sold in about 60 countries. It handles all kinds of systems, from analog to digital equipment, used in hospitals and clinics. Software and hardware technical prowess accumulated through long experience is the major reason for achieving excellent results in international biddings. The auto exposure control function that minimizes the amount of radiation exposure by understanding the physical characteristics of a patient is a useful function for both patients and doctors. Also, the panel of 127 micron pixel size is applied providing the best images in the world.
Jumong RF is a digital X-ray fluoroscopy device using an FPD detector. This product is developed to carry out various types of physical examinations efficiently by capturing a digital image without moving a patient. Also, it is the second product in the world and the first product in Korea that can obtain 18 million pixel images by significantly improving previous 9 million pixel images based on the image processing technology of SG Health Care. It features more precise examinations as micro filming is available using the tomography technique.

 

Expanding global markets

SG HealthCare is a company providing medical imaging devices such as X-ray, ultrasound, MRI, etc. SG HealthCare is currently expanding markets by acquiring the U.S. FDA certificate and concentrating on business targeting global markets. SG HealthCare is also becoming a truly “health conscious” company by launching skin care and body slimming technology (Body Spin) successfully.

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A Fine Chemistry Company Leading the Semiconductor, LCD, and TSP Markets

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiryThe price of a single semiconductor wafer the size of two hand palms is extremely costly for the surface is coated with gold. A wafer of 750 micrometer thickness is polished to thinner than one-third through ultra-high-speed back grinding. In this process, even a slight difference in thickness may cause a problem in which electricity does not travel across chips. This is why the role of the back grinding tape holding the wafer is critical in the process of grinding.
Since its establishment in 2006, BECS Co., Ltd. has developed a liquid masking coating agent by utilizing the know-how gained through its clearing business in the semiconductor and fl at panel display (FPD) fields in the early stage. The company further transformed itself from a total cleaning solution provider to a fine chemistry company and successfully sett led the masking coating business, a core process of semiconductors, LCDs, and TSPs in the market.

PRM 1100; Wafer Back Grinding Lamination Film

BECS has developed a liquid-type coating for wafer back grinding that can replace the existing lamination film type. The wafer back grinding is a process to reduce resistance and improve heat conductivity by removing needless films and grinding the thick reverse side. Consisting of film type and liquid type, it reduces over 70% material costs compared with BG tape. The wafer back grinding can be applied to the process of dicing before grinding (DBG) and stealth dicing before grinding (SDBG). Back grinding is easy for the sawing process and minimizes the package thickness as well as exhales working heat. The liquid coating reduces over 70% material costs compared with BG tape. The process is as simple as four to six steps.

Dicing Before Grinding (DBG)

If the wheel keeps rotating with die separated, faults may occur due to the collision among chips and mixed dust. As kerf width is maintained between dies, chips are fixed during back grounding. It is easy to release with no residue.

Stealth Dicing Before Grinding (SDBG)

In the process of laser sawing, it forms a protective film on the surface of the wafer to be cut, which protects the wafer from debris and particles generated while dicing. The coating agent is released in the shape of film when it is dipped into water after use. The amount of yielding wafer dicing increases by preventing cracks on the wafer that may be created during the sawing process. It is also easy to release in the shape of film or tape in the water and dries quickly.

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TouchBeat Drum Game Kit Makes Learning to Play the Drums Accessible to Everyone

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E14] Wifo Corporation, a music technology startup, has developed a way for anyone to learn how to play the drums — even those who don’t own a drum set. Learning to play the drums usually requires a full-size set of the equipment in order to learn the basics, but Wifo’s recent development aims to change this.
The TouchBeat Drum Game Kit turns any smart device like an iPad or iPhone into a virtual drum set. When paired with their specially developed kick pedal and realistic drumsticks, you’ll get a responsive, real-time drum kit experience, without the need to haul a full-size setup
It can be used on a table or even strapped to your leg in order to make it possible to practice and play just about anywhere you might find yourself.
The specially designed drumsticks are constructed with anodized aluminum and a soft conductive tip which allows players to use actual drumsticks instead of their fingers without damaging the screen. As an added bonus, they can attach the remote touch simulator to the bass drum and use it as a kick pedal just like a real drum set.
Wifo Corporation developed a unique app that makes learning to play fun and easy. The app, which was developed in collaboration with an award-winning drummer and professor of music, teaches basic drumming techniques and offers rhythm training with games. The drum set can also be used to play other drum and rhythm games like GarageBand, for example. Players can select songs from their device and play along with the music, as well.

 


“We’re passionate about music, especially drumming, and wanted to find a way to pass this passion on by making learning to play, easy, fun, and affordable for everyone. That was the inspiration for the TouchBeat Drum Game Kit. There’s no need for expensive courses and it isn’t even necessary to invest in and find a place to store a drum set. Anyone with a smart device can learn with system. It’s also convenient for those who already play — they can practice anytime, anywhere,” said Casey Kyung, CEO and co-founder of Wifo Corporation.
Wifo Corporation is a hardware startup specialized in mobile accessories for music creation and play. “Our mission is to make your musical life easy and enjoyable by bringing cutting-edge technology to our innovative products,” he added.

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The World’s First Car Exclusive Tablet PC

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E13] “The beginning of the fourth industrial revolution Smart Car”
ART & CORE launched “M2C Carblet,” the world’s first car-exclusive tablet PC.M2C Carblet is a smart device that integrates mobile + car + tablet technology, a new concept of connected car that has never been seen before. To put it simply, it can be said that it is a tablet PC for a car, and a general car can easily be transformed into a smart connected car by adding “M2C Carblet”.
M2C Carblet has the advantage that you can download various apps freely by using wireless communication (LTE) in a running car. With the real-time navigation apps such as T-map and kakao-navi which were used in smartphone by most of Korean, it is possible to receive real-time map information and to update maps automatically.
M2C Carblet has two versions for LTE and Wi-Fi, and you can download various applications supported by mobile store. In particular, “M2C Carblet” is not only a navigation app, but also provides a variety of contents such as games, multimedia, schedule management, car maintenance.
M2C Carblet was developed for the first time in Korea to use 22 channels of HD DMB through the hardware codec, and it is possible to enjoy it with HD quality that is much clearer than the existing DMB.
In particular, the M2C 8000 Carblet can be mounted and landfilled. In case of landfill, TRIP is supported in most vehicles. TRIP will provide convenient function to check and control car air condition information, radio and audio condition, as well as vehicle information such as battery voltage and outside temperature.
The M2C 8000 Carblet features a Smart Standby function that turns on the car at startup with the power on at all times, and a Quick Rear View camera that allows you to view the rear camera screen immediately when the rear gear is engaged during boot.
In addition, the smartphone and the M2C 8000 Carblet have a screen mirroring function, so you can wirelessly view photos, videos, etc. on your 8-inch screen without having to copy and move files to your car device when traveling with your family.
ART & CORE, a technology venture company established in 2012, is recognized as the best technology venture company in the field of smart device development for IOT. In 2015, it was the only company to be selected as a partner company of global company MediaTek.
ART & CORE’s major business area is developing and supplying Smart Robot, Smart Car and Smart Home. For the best example, we are exclusively supplying display tablet used in Softbank Interactive Robot “Pepper.”

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3D Forming Curved Screen Protector

https://korean-electronics.com//inquiry[INQ. NO. 1708E12] Bioshield is an antimicrobial screen protector manufacturer that was established in July 2011. Bioshield was certified by SIAA and ISO22196 for antimicrobial technology, and thus its antimicrobial screen protectors have antimicrobial effect and safety issues are concurrently assured.
The main product is a ‘3D-forming curved screen protector’. It is the world’s first curved screen protector with optical PET. Bioshield started to research and develop for 3D forming technology since 2012 with Galaxy S3 and till now (Galaxy S8/S8+, Galaxy S7 & edge, and iPhone 7/Plus). Bioshield keeps working on 3D forming for the new curved smartphones to make the most perfect full coverage screen protectors.
The main export countries are the USA, Thailand, China and New Zealand and the main domestic malls are SKP (One store), Shinsegae mall & E-mart, Lotte mall and more. Bioshield is expanding in both domestic and overseas markets as a 3D-forming screen protector manufacturer.
These days, smartphone manufacturers produce their new devices with a shaped LCD screen such as curves, edges or flex for their product differentiation. Even the major manufacturers, Samsung (Galaxy S8/S8+, S7 edge/S7) and Apple (iPhone 7/7+/6S/6S+), keep releasing their new phones with shaped LCD screens, but the existing screen protector manufacturers cannot produce the full coverage screen protector for these shaped screens with optical PET but the company has ability to make full coverage 3D forming screen protector with optical PET. 3D forming screen protector is better than the competitive product, urethane (TPU), in many ways; touch sensitivities, transmittance, AFP coated, surface hardness and more. The 3D forming screen protector is the most perfect PET screen protector for curved LCD screens.

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