Cuckoo Electronics Launches Steam Shot Large-capacity Dishwasher

March 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2403E17] Cuckoo Electronics Co., Ltd., a comprehensive health home appliance company, announced that it recently launched the 14-person steam shot large-capacity dishwasher, which can clean up to 110 large and small dishes with steam at up to 120 degrees C.
Cuckoo Electronics applied ultra-high temperature steam technology for more thorough dishwashing to the new product. By incorporating the know-how gained from developing a 100˚C boiled water purifier, the new dishwasher powerfully sprays up to 120˚C steam (based on the discharge port). Through this, it not only removes dried grease and rice grains, but also sterilizes 99.999% of various bacteria such as escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus, which are major causes of food poisoning.

Employing a powerful cleaning system to provide thorough cleaning
In particular, the new product uses a powerful five-layer, three-dimensional cleaning system to provide thorough cleaning without blind spots. Featuring powerful washing nozzles at the top, middle, and bottom, a three-dimensional water spray is carried out through a vertical spray in the middle and a swirl nozzle at the bottom to clean dishes without blind spots. After the cleaning process is completed, the remaining moisture is effectively removed with hot air at 100˚C, and internal moisture and odors are discharged through the automatic door opening drying function. Finally, the blowing function removes any remaining moisture and odor, and if additional drying is needed, users can additionally select the ‘Strong Dry’ program.
The tray is also efficiently designed for optimal dishwashing and drying. To increase space utilization, the flexible three-tier basket can secure space in the middle basket by sliding the top basket to the left when necessary. In addition, the height of the middle basket can be adjusted with just one touch, so it can store large pots, and the bottom basket is equipped with a folding stand so that it can be used according to the situation. With this efficient use of space, it is possible to store up to 110 large and small dishes for 14 people and then wash them.
A spokesperson for the company explained, “To help consumers escape the dishwashing burden, we have launched the steam shot large-capacity dishwasher that can wash up to 110 large and small dishes.”


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Bioprotech Inc. is Growing into a Global Professional Bio-sensor Manufacturer

February 23, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2402E14] Bioprotech Inc., founded in 2000, is a manufacturer of electronic medical device consumables, specializing in the manufacturing of biological biosensors – based upon 24 years of business experience.
Bioprotech produces low-cost, high-quality products with manufacturing facilities in Korea and China, and deals with global companies in over 40 countries around the world.
In 2018, Bioprotech was registered as a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), a U.S. medical supplies purchasing system used by approximately 98% of U.S. hospitals as of 2021, through Bioprotech’s U.S. subsidiary, and is increasing its supply share in the U.S. market every year.
The electroencephalogram (EEG) field is growing steadily based on various factors: the expansion of brain science research; the increase in brain-related diseases; the advancement of brainwave-based technology; the increase in neurological diseases; the aging society; and the increasing awareness of the importance of rehabilitation treatment.
In response to such demand, Bioprotech recently released high-performance medical device consumables used for diagnoses in the field of neurology, such as muscle activity (EMG), brain activity (EEG) and products for intraoperative monitoring (IOM).

Biological Bio-sensor for EMG (Electromyography)
This product is used to check the functional status of muscles and the status of normal nerve transmission. It is also used to diagnose neurological diseases, evaluate the effectiveness of muscle rehabilitation treatment, and study specific muscle activity patterns.
The measurement method varies depending on the purpose of the electromyography test, and can be divided into a non-insertion method using surface electrodes, and an insertion method using needle electrodes.

Bio-sensor for EEG
This product is used to measure the electrical activity of the brain. It records brainwaves through electrodes attached to the head, and through this, it determines the functional state and ideal activity of the brain.
This product consists of disposable and reusable measuring electrodes as shown below, tailored to each customer’s preference for safety and cost-effectiveness.

Bio-center for IOM (Intraoperative Monitoring)
This product is used to monitor specific neural structures in the central and peripheral nervous system during surgery. This type of monitoring can provide surgeons and anesthesiologists with continuous information, reducing the risk of iatrogenic damage to the patient’s nervous system.
“We are currently in discussions with a major European medical device consumables company to create a co-brand, and through this, we will increase our share in the European neurology-related diagnostic consumables market. In addition, we will listen carefully to our customers’ suggestions and reflect them to improve the quality and price-competitiveness of our products to continuously provide good products and services to the global neurology market,” the CEO stressed.


 
 
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Korea’s Lunit Enters the U.S. Breast-Cancer Diagnosis Market

January 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2401E18] Lunit Inc., a medical artificial intelligence (AI) startup company, is entering the U.S. market, the world’s largest medical market, by acquiring a global breast-cancer AI platform company. This is the first acquisition of a promising overseas medical AI company since the company was founded, and significant synergy is expected in its flagship medical AI business.
Lunit recently signed a contract to acquire Volpara Health Technologies, a multinational company that supplies AI solutions to about 2,000 medical institutions in the United States, for US$193.07 million (about KRW 252.5 billion), and it thus instantly secured its own sales network in the United States.
Lunit’s CEO remarked, “With the acquisition of Volpara, we will be able to shorten the time to get established in the U.S. market by at least five years,” adding, “We will grow into the industry’s only company with annual sales of KRW100 billion by 2025.”
Volpara, which posted sales of KRW21 billion in 2022 and KRW28 billion last year, has recorded an average annual sales growth-rate of 63% over the past five years. Currently, four out of 10 mammography screening centers in the United States use Volpara’s products.

In particular, the software market, essential for breast-cancer screening, is expected to grow rapidly in the future. The company’s CEO explained, “Basically, in the United States, there are about 40 million mammography images taken officially every year. Based upon this data, we internally estimate the size of the breast-cancer screening software market in the United States to be worth around 1.5 trillion won.”
Lunit predicts that the market-size will grow to around KRW3 trillion within five to six years.


 
 
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IZON’s Wearable Eye ExerciserRegistered with FDA and MDA(Malaysia)

January 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2401E17] IZON’s eye exercises wearable device (Personal Scope-EX) is a device that helps to maintain and improve eyesight — by allowing anyone to easily and comprehensively do all kinds of exercises for the eyes. In today’s busy life, the eyes are often neglected or abused due to continuously living with seeing in bright light, close and small devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs, laptop computers, TVs, and so forth. So, the eyes also need to be cared for and managed through exercise, and proper exercises for the eyes can help to improve vision.
IZON’s eye exerciser has been honored with being selected as ‘Winner of Well-Being Brands in Korea Customer Satisfaction Brands’ for eight consecutive years.

IZON’s wearable eye exerciser registered with U.S. FDA and as medical device with MDA Malaysia
IZON’s wearable eye exerciser was registered with the U.S. FDA, and was also registered as a medical device in Malaysia (MDA). In Korea, the eye exerciser has been approved as a medical device for export.
Moreover, the product is being well-received also in many other countries around the world, winning the Grand Award in the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions held in the USA, as well as in Russia, China, Poland, and Taiwan.

As our eyes are connected to the autonomic nervous system, it is quite difficult to do proper eye exercises except for simple vertical and horizontal eye movements, or massages. However, it is only comprehensive movements that can maximize the effect of eye exercises and keep one’s eyes healthy.
IZON’s Personal Scope-EX is an eye-exercise device featuring an iris-training mechanism with an adjustable brightness function and perspective shift gaze.
Training programs enable users not only to perform massages and simple eye movements, but also to do complex eye exercises with ease — which would otherwise be difficult to do on one’s own. The device also allows users to check changes in their vision after doing exercises for five minutes.

When used daily, it naturally helps any persons who are short-sighted, far-sighted, astigmatic or presbyopic, or suffer from dry eyes and even strabismus(squint) to improve their vision and maintain normal vision, as it enables them to perform all the necessary exercises for their eyes, easily and simply.


 
 
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Twin Pressure Rice Cookers

December 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2312E21] Cuckoo Electronics Co., Ltd, a comprehensive health home appliance company, recently announced that its IH twin pressure rice cooker product line, launched for the first time in the industry, recorded an average annual growth rate of 81%, and exceeded 2.5 million units in cumulative sales within seven years of its launch.

The IH twin pressure rice cooker was first introduced to the market in September 2017. The twin pressure function, developed for the first time in Korea by Cuckoo Electronics, adjusts the taste and stickiness of rice to one’s taste through ultra-high pressure and gentle IH non-pressure cooking in one rice cooker through a dual motion valve. You can make sticky and chewy rice with ultra-high-pressure cooking, and moist and somewhat dried rice with no-pressure cooking. In particular, it supports the ‘open cooking’ function, which allows you to open the lid of the rice cooker and cook freely during non-pressure cooking, making it easy to complete cumbersome dishes such as rice with vegetables.
The popularity of the IH twin pressure rice cooker rice cooker, which has a variety of functions, has steadily increased since its launch. Since 2018, when sales began in earnest, it has grown at an average annual rate of 81% as of last year, and in October of this year, cumulative sales of the twin pressure IH pressure rice cooker product line exceeded 2.5 million units.
Thanks to its high popularity, Cuckoo Electronics has launched the Twin Pressure Low-Sugar Rice Cooker, which reduces carbohydrates while maintaining the delicious taste of rice, as well as the Twin Pressure The Light with a reasonable price; and the ‘Twin Pressure Petit’, an ultra-small premium rice cooker for 1-2 person households. Thus, the lineup was diversified by launching one after another.
A spokesperson for the company explained, “The twin pressure model series, which is equipped with twin pressure technology that allows cooking by selecting ultra-high pressure or no pressure, for the first time in Korea, is leading the premium rice cooker market, recording cumulative sales of 2.5 million units within just seven years since its launch,” adding “We will continue to release new products equipped with our top-level technology at reasonable prices so that more consumers can choose us.”


 
 
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Wayne Hills Bryant A.I. Embarks on Development of Neural Network A.I.

November 27, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2311E46] Wayne Hills Bryant A.I. is engaged in neural network-based research to generate visuals from brain signals: Wayne Hills Bryant A.I., often referred to as ‘Wayne Hills,’ recently announced its groundbreaking research project through its U.S. division.
The initiative, named ‘Wayne Hills Neural Network A.I.’, is aimed at developing an A.I. system capable of producing video content directly from human thoughts. Visualizing a future where one’s thoughts could instantly become video content without vocal or physical gestures is transformative.
In this context, Wayne Hills, which established ‘Text to Video (TTV) AI’ technology, known for turning text into visuals, is predicted to play a vital role.

Launching of A.I cartoon story
Wayne Hills Bryant A.I. launched its comic-crafting tool with just a sentence. This is a platform that effortlessly transforms mere sentences into detailed, vibrant digital comics. Harnessing the power of its unique large-language model and state-of-the-art image processing technology, this platform can craft visual narratives spanning styles from sleek contemporary American, to whimsical animations reminiscent of iconic animation studios.
As a testament to its adaptability, the tool integrates with third-party solutions, streamlining comic creation processes and setting the stage for a seismic shift in content production.

Releasing of human avatar A.I.
AI startup Wayne Hills Bryant A.I. has launched its human avatar AI, an AI-generation and synthesis service that creates virtual avatars based on portrait videos and prompts.
By entering just one sentence, an AI avatar is created, and a new virtual person is produced and created with videos such as lip synchronization and narration, making it possible to create content through the virtual person of an announcer in the media, broadcasts, and entertainment.


 
 
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Electric Dual Tilt-rotor Drone

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[INQ. NO. 2309E32] Narma Inc. is the first spin-off company of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).
With the tilt-rotor technology of KARI, Narma has developed the world’s first electric dual tilt-rotor drone, and succeeded in its commercialization.
Established in 2018, Narma focused on R&D for three years, and since 2021 has conducted demo flights through various national projects.
Narma was able to stabilize drones using data collected through demo flights in these projects, and in 2022 achieved its first overseas sales. Its goal this year is to expand business into the U.S. market.
Based on the demo flight data conducted in this way, Narma developed more stable drones and achieved its first overseas exports in 2022. During this year, Narma plans to establish a branch in the United States and conduct demo flights.

Capable of vertical take-off and landing
Narma’s world’s first electric small tiltrotor drone, AF200, is capable of vertical take-off and landing, and can fly like an airplane after tilting the rotor in the air.
It is thus capable of high-speed flight (up to 120 km/h) and long-distance flight by using the lift of the wings. Based on these advantages, it can be considered as a very suitable drone for delivery and surveillance.
The AF200 can fly for up to 40 minutes and a distance of 40 kilometers with a payload of 5kg. Items can be safely delivered using three types of drop system developed by Narma. Starting with the Tongyeong-Saryangdo blood delivery business, stability and functionality have been proven through various government tasks.
In 2022, through a sandbox project supported by the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety and Technology, Narma has carried out a medication delivery drone project, operating a delivery shuttle drone between Chungnam National University Hospital and Konkuk University Hospital.
In 2023, through the CTS Seed1 project in Kenya, Narma plans to carry out an emergency medical delivery business supported by KOICA to local public health centers using the AF200.


 
 
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Agricultural Automation Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions

August 25, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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Opening the era of smart farms that automatically grow crops
[INQ. NO. 2308E28] AVALVE Co., Ltd. participated in the Agri & Food Tech Start-up Rising Expo 2023 (hereinafter referred to as AFRO 2023) held from July 26 to 28 – in order to introduce agricultural automation artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.


AVALVE is a company with AI software technology dedicated to smart farms. It develops and supplies its own data collection and processing AI learning control solution that helps mass-produce optimal crops.


Various visitors who participated in the exhibition paid great attention to the technological ingenuity of the AI smart farm solution developed by AVALVE. Its smart farm AI solution automatically controls the environment necessary for crop cultivation, such as temperature, humidity, CO2, and nutrient solution – through detecting the condition of plants in in real time.


In addition, it provides optimal real-time cultivation guidelines based on the data learned by artificial intelligence, and checks information such as whether pests have occurred, harvest time, and weight of crops, and gives notifications through a dashboard, so you can grow without expert help. Thus, farmer can easily grow a hard-to-grow and high-value crops.


In the future, AVALVE plans to realize the infinite value of agriculture by connecting advanced AI technology, the 4th industrial revolution technology, to agriculture, the primary industry, in the global market.


A spokesperson for the company stressed “Through this AFRO 2023 participation, as a technology-based company that innovates the future of the agricultural industry, we will establish networking with large companies, investors, distributors, and public institutions to promote rapid growth in digital transformation of not only Korean agriculture but also global agriculture.”


 
 
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Smart Air Circulator

May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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[INQ. NO. 2305E29] CUCKOO Electronics America, known for its popular and reliable rice cookers, has recently added a new air circulator to its home appliance line, which also includes several innovative air purifiers. CUCKOO’s new 360° air circulator fan ‘CF-AC1410WH’ may look like your ordinary, gentle fan, but inside that innocuous exterior is a powerfully smart and customizable air circulator with high efficiency and low noise.

NEW 360° air circulator fan perfect for summer cooling
This smart CF-AC1410WH operates in five wind modes (normal, sleep, eco, natural, and turbo). You can customize the air movement based on your preference, and also adjust the horizontal and vertical position of the fan. In eco mode, the blade speed adjusts automatically based on the surrounding temperature to reduce energy consumption.
The 14-inch seven-lobed wing cuts through the air finely, and creates a soft wind, resulting in less noise. The noise level of CF-AC1410WH is about 20dB per level, which is lower than a whisper.
You can also program the timer from 30 minutes to 12 hours, on the fan or using your remote control, just in time for high summer temperatures.
Weighing just 9.5 pounds including the adapter, it has dimensions of 15.4(W) × 14.8(D) × 39.4(H) inches.
Originally launched as Sungkwang Electronics in 1978, CUCKOO rebranded in 1998, reintroducing itself with a new line of innovative rice cookers. It quickly became South Korea’s #1 rice cooker, but it was not known only for its rice cookers. CUCKOO has led the Korean domestic market with its creative technology, unique designs, and high quality for over 40 years.
In recent years, CUCKOO has expanded to China, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and most recently, to the United States, and Canada.


 
 
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SoftForum Wins 2023 CybersecurityExcellence Awards

April 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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Recognized as the Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company of Asia, Honored with Five Excellence Awards in Products Category

[INQ. NO. 2304E11] Softforum Co., Ltd., a company specializing in quantum security, announced that it has been recognized as the
‘Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company’ at the 2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.
Cybersecurity Excellence Awards is an international event that honors companies, products, services, and professionals that
demonstrate excellence, innovation, and leadership in information security worldwide. The event is produced in partnership with the
300,000-member Information Security Community, and recognizes the leading companies in the
industry.

Softforum has received public attention for its contribution to information security, and has been honored as the Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company of Asia with its information security solutions based on Quantum-Resistant-Cryptography (PQC). The company has received awards in five Cybersecurity Product/Service categories, including Quantum-resi stant verified cryptography, Hybrid PQC-based network section encryption, Hybrid PQC-based storage encryption, Hybrid PQC-based de-identification of privacy data, and Hybrid PQC-based biometric authentication.
PQC, which gained the spotlight in the event through Softforum solutions, has seen increasing interest with the recent development of Quantum Computing Technology.

In particular, it has been revealed that the safety of Public Key Cryptography, the core of electronic transition securities such as Internet banking, electronic stock trading, and Internet shopping, is being threatened by quantum computers. As the migration to quantum computing is increasing the risk to information security, preventive action to solve the problems has emerged.
Jeong Jong-kap, CEO of Softforum, emphasized that “PQC is an effective countermeasure to cope with the incapacitation of existing public key cryptography (RSA, ECC, etc.) algorithms, and is thus a security solution that organizations should implement. As quantum security is still in the early stages
of market penetration, Softforum will preempt the future of the security market through systematic preparation and quick response to greater risks.” Softforum is a company specializing in next-generation information security solutions in the PQC field, and is rapidly emerging and highly evaluated in the global security market.


 
 
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