Wireless Hand Blender

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[INQ. NO. 2502E02] Cuckoo Electronics, a comprehensive home appliance company, has released a lightweight wireless hand blender. This product is for those who want to manage their diet or make healthy drinks for the new year.

The wireless hand blender weighs only 550g, reducing the strain on the wrist when used. It is a product that can be used for up to 60 minutes on a single charge with a large-capacity battery (2000mAh). It is lighter than existing wireless products and is easy to use, more convenient to clean, and store.
Safety functions have also been enhanced. The power turns off automatically if not used for 30 seconds, and the handle has an ergonomic design to prevent the device from slipping out of the user’s hand.
It is also equipped with a high-efficiency motor and a double stainless-steel blade, which allows for fine grinding. The company explained that the motor, which rotates more than 18,000 times per minute, allows for fine grinding of particles, and the double stainless-steel blade quickly mixes the ingredients to produce a uniform taste and flavor.
The hand blender comes in a variety of configurations to expand users’ options.

A spokesperson for the company explained, “This new product is characterized by its light weight that does not strain the wrist, and can be used stably with one hand,” adding, “We hope that customers will be able to enjoy healthy cooking more conveniently with the wireless hand blender that has reduced weight based on powerful functions.”

Cuckoo Electronics, which has always led the domestic market with creative technology, aims to be reborn as a global comprehensive home appliance company that is loved around the world, beyond being No. 1 in Korea. Cuckoo strives to make each and every one of its products permeate the lives of customers by adding convenience and happiness.

 
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X-ray Detectors for Mammography

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[INQ. NO. 2502E01] Vieworks recently announced that its X-ray detectors for mammography, ‘VIVIX-M 1824S’ and ‘VIVIX-M 2430S,’ have received pre-market approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Vieworks’ mammography product line is expected to see significant sales growth, as it has expanded its supply to the North American market, as well as Europe and South America, which have recently shown remarkable growth.
The two approved products are flat-panel detectors that can capture X-rays based on static image-based in the digital mammography field. They belong to the ‘Retrofit’ product line that can easily convert analog X-ray systems using film cassettes to digital. They are designed according to the same specifications as analog cassettes, enabling the establishment of a digital diagnosis system and acquisition of high-quality images without replacing the entire system.
In terms of performance, they are equipped with the latest panel technology, indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), thin film transistors, enabling diagnostic images to be shown within just 3 seconds with low power. They provide clear clinical images with a pixel pitch of 75µm. The bezel thickness is less than 2mm, making patient positioning convenient when shooting.
They can also maximize workflow efficiency by linking with ‘VXvue Mammo,’ which is digital mammography-specific image acquisition software. Equipped with ‘PureImpact M,’ an advanced image processing algorithm developed exclusively for breast diagnosis, they correct major lesions in the breast to make it easier to diagnose, and a gridline preservation function that preserves image clarity has also been added.
Recently, Vieworks’ long-type detector ‘VIVIX-S 1751S’ product also received pre-market approval from the FDA in November last year, which is gaining momentum for Vieworks’ expansion of its North American market share.

A spokesperson for the company explained “Following the recent participation in RSNA 2024 to showcase our core technologies to local interested parties, the new long-type detector products and mammography detector products have also received FDA approval, providing a foundation for opening up North American sales channels and increasing market share.”


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Hidden Camera Detector

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[INQ. NO. 2501E03] Many people are worried that they will always risk being victims of illegal filming in their daily lives. However, the miniaturization of filming devices continues to progress, so finding surveillance camera equipment remains a difficult problem.
Due to the growth of the small camera module market, camouflaged forms of illegal cameras are continuously evolving, and illegal filming crimes are increasing every year. To counter this growing threat, technologically advanced security service systems have to be introduced in public places such as schools, toilets, and fitting rooms.

Innertron’s spy camera detector, called ISD-S23, is a cutting-edge device designed to detect illegal cameras and prevent unauthorized monitoring. Using advanced technology, it can acquire and identify the MAC addresses and information of illegal cameras by analyzing the data transmitted via both wired and wireless channels.
With its detection, remote monitoring, and blocking capabilities, this device provides an effective solution for combating illegal surveillance and safeguarding privacy in public spaces.
This product is currently installed in various institutions in Korea such as schools, gyms, and public facilities, and is helping to create an environment safer from illegal filming.

Expected effects
This device makes it possible to operate 24-hour illegal camera detection, thereby reducing overall costs such as purchasing inspection equipment and hiring professional specialists for on-site inspections.
Real-time monitoring and text notifications enable safe and efficient operation of public facilities, blocking videos transmitted from illegal cameras in advance, and preventing secondary damage.
When detecting an illegal camera with Innertron’s ISD-S23, it is possible to check the illegal camera information such as detection time and location, thus contributing to security protection enabling the tracing and arresting of criminals.

 
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Painless Laser Monitor for Blood Collection & Blood Sugar

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[INQ. NO. 2501E02] MVITRO Co., Ltd., a medical device company based on laser technology, recently announced that it was selected as a ‘Featured Exhibitor’ in the digital health sector at the world’s largest consumer electronics exhibition, CES 2025.
MVITRO participated in CES by introducing ORTIV, a painless laser monitor for blood collection and blood sugar, which recently received sale approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
ORTIV is a medical device that uses lasers instead of disposable needles to painlessly collect blood and measure blood sugar levels. It has reduced the pain of the blood collection process to a painless level, and is receiving attention not only in Korea but also in the United States, Japan, and Europe.
For the U.S. market, ASI, which supplies medical equipment to blood transfusion institutions, signed a contract with MVITRO for sale of ORTIV. And for the Korean market, a pharmaceutical company is preparing to exclusively distribute ORTIV. In addition, it is reported that Toyobo, a Japanese diagnostic enzyme manufacturer, requested MVITRO to develop a painless laser for diagnosing various diseases.

A spokesperson for the company explained, “Since last year, we have participated in CES with a prototype of ORTIV and met many buyers who showed great interest in our painless laser blood collection technology,” adding “We currently have over 25 confirmed interviews, and since FDA approval for ORTIV was recently achieved, we expect that many of them will lead to actual contracts this time.”
MVITRO expects ORTIV to receive approval from Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in the first quarter of this year. It plans to begin domestic sales of ORTIV as soon as the approval process is completed.
MVITRO is also planning to enter the European market in the second half of this year. MVITRO is developing a hemoglobin measuring device with the U.S. blood donation organization, Vitalant, by using the laser technology incorporated in ORTIV. Based on this reference, MVITRO unveiled its plans to enter markets such as China and Southeast Asia in the future.
“We developed ORTIV by recognizing the stress felt by patients when having blood collected. We will contribute to overcoming blood collection trauma through ORTIV, which has significantly reduced blood collection discomfort,” explained the company’s CEO.

 
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Portable Oxygen Generator

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[INQ. NO. 2501E01] RhinOS, Inc., a care robot specialist, recently announced that it will be launching a new portable oxygen generator and vehicle oxygen generator, in collaboration with global medical device company, Yonker.
Yonker is a medical device specialist company established in 2005 that supplies various products including oxygen concentrators, blood pressure monitors, and nebulizers to clients in more than 140 countries. RhinOS recently began online sales for its 3-liter oxygen generator, which is based on Yonker’s technology and targets winter demand for the elderly and pets, where indoor air-quality management is important.
The oxygen generator supplies oxygen with a concentration of up to 96%, and maximizes user convenience with a simple operation interface and real-time monitoring function. It is also equipped with a rechargeable, detachable battery ― making it convenient to use even on long-distance trips.
A spokesperson for the company explained, “The oxygen generator has applied technology that can maintain a stable oxygen concentration, and can be used continuously for up to seven hours with a 16-cell battery,” adding “It can prevent health problems caused by oxygen deficiency in the elderly and pets and provide a healing effect.”
In addition to the portable oxygen generator, RhinOS also released the vehicle oxygen generator, Wheelie O2. This product was designed to solve the problem of oxygen deficiency inside vehicles, and it has overcome the limitations of existing vehicle air purifiers that focus only on removing fine dust.
Wheelie O2 simultaneously provides purified air and oxygen, and can even be expected to have an anti-drowsiness effect. In particular, it can be conveniently used in vehicles by utilizing DC12-16.8V power, so it is useful even during long-distance driving.
Starting with the sale of this 3-liter oxygen generator, RhinOS plans to release various products with capacities of 1-liter, 5-liters, and 7-liters, respectively, by the first half of this year.

  
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Instant Ramen Cooker

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Ramen is the most popular menu choice in Hangang Park, along with chicken, during the summer. People’s interest has increased as scenes of boiling ramen in machines at convenience stores have appeared several times on entertainment programs.
With the growing popularity of boiling packaged ramen, a special container called an ‘instant cooker,’ or ‘ramen cooker,’ is being used.
There are more than three Korean companies that manufacture instant cookers (ramen cookers) that can be seen in Hangang Park and convenience stores.
IDEA’s ‘LAZO’ is a first-generation instant ramen cooker, and is maintaining No. 1 position in the domestic market.

Designed for anyone to easily boil and eat
LAZO is an instant cooker. Customers can boil ramen by putting it in an exclusive paper container and placing it in the machine. All you have to do is just press the button. The average cooking time is about four minutes. “Warm water maintained at around 80°C comes out of the cooker and starts cooking. The aluminum coating inside the paper reacts to induction and quickly boils the water,” explained the CEO of the company Lee Sang-cheol about the process of boiling ramen in LAZO. LAZO is a product combining the functions of a water purifier and an induction.
IDEA’s LAZO is highly preferred in places with limited space, such as convenience stores. At first glance, it is mistaken for a regular water purifier, and the design was carefully considered. More than 2,000 units of LAZO are installed in convenience stores, PC rooms, etc., nationwide, including 7-Eleven. CEO Lee explains, “Customers can cook even in goshiwons – accommodations for students studying for exams ― or commercial facilities where it is difficult to install a gas range by using LAZO,” adding “the number of installed units is expected to soon exceed 3,000.”
IDEA has focused on safety and after-sales management since the early days of product distribution. It has shortened the after-sales service (AS) time as much as possible for convenience store owners who operate 24 hours per day. It has made sure that the time from receiving a breakdown to repairing it does not exceed one day. It has operated a call center since the early days of the business and has established 27 service centers nationwide.

Evolving into a smart cooking appliance that can communicate
LAZO has also entered overseas markets where ramen consumption is high. More than 1,000 units of LAZO were exported to the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, respectively. Currently, it is entering the Japanese and European markets. “East Asia has something in common in that it has developed cuisine using noodles, and demand is occurring in areas where convenience stores are developed,” remarked CEO Lee.
According to the World Instant Noodles Association (WINA), Koreans consume 73.7 units per person per year (as of 2017), ranking first in the world, followed by Vietnam (53.5 units), and Nepal (51.1 units).
“The growing market for home meal replacements (HMRs), including ramen, is also an opportunity. We plan to expand our product line that is easy to cook by collaborating with various food companies. We will create a cooking platform that can be used as easily as a microwave oven,” remarked CEO Lee about the company’s future plans.


 
 
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Smart Farm Control Solution

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[INQ. NO. 2408E01] ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service, is being used to support smart farm operations.
A smart farm-control solution utilizing a natural language AI chatbot was introduced at a local agricultural and food tech startup expo held at COEX in Seoul.
This solution, showcased by UBN Corp., was created using version 4.0 of ChatGPT developed by Open AI as an API. Language prompts related to agriculture were created and trained. When linked with smart farm sensors, it analyzes real-time data for each user. It can also issue commands to operate smart farm sensors.

For example, if you say ‘Tell me the current status,’ it will inform you of the temperature, humidity, and illuminance of the connected smart farm. Then, if you input ‘Compare with strawberry cultivation environment,’ it will provide suitable environmental conditions and compare them with the user’s smart farm environment, and respond to questions like, ‘Should I turn on the lighting?’ If you give a command, you can even modify the sensor’s target value.
A UBN spokesperson explained, “The current smart farm control method requires you to identify and change data directly or through an app, one by one,” adding “But there were opinions received that it was inconvenient to identify and change while working in the agricultural field, so we were thinking about a convenient operating method. So, we came up with the app using a natural-language AI model that understands the context.”
After improving the learning of the AI model, UBN’s ultimate goal is to enable voice control on wearable devices such as smartwatches.
UBN offers Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions such as the smart farm system and IoT sensors for home plant cultivation, to which the advanced ICT technologies including IoT (Internet of Things) and USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) are applied.

 
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Dental&Industrial 3D Printer

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[INQ. NO. 2407E01] AON Co., Ltd., founded in 2016, is a company dedicated to manufacturing dental and industrial 3D printers, and supplying dedicated materials for the printers.
AON developed the world’s first liquid zirconia material for teeth and approved by FDA, CE, and KFDA certifications. It provides printing technology that can manufacture permanent teeth such as crowns, bridges, and veneers and industrial parts ― using dedicated printers.

3D printer (ZIPRO)
The ZIPRO printer is a DLP-type 3D printer that provides a faster printing time compared with other methods and provides a high-resolution of 1920×1080, and high-precision. It also allows for lamination of self-developed liquid zirconia and alumina materials ― and is suitable for printing permanent teeth and high-precision industrial parts.

Dental liquid zirconia (INNI-CERA)
INNI-CERA, the world’s first dental liquid zirconia developed by AON, has a high bending strength of 1000Mpa, making it possible to print permanent teeth such as crowns, bridges, and veneers, and is also used for printing surgical materials such as implant membranes. It is also a non-toxic, eco-friendly material that has acquired FDA, CE, and KFDA certification, and offers lower production costs compared with the existing zirconia blocks.

ROBO-ICM (Liquid Zirconia)
The ROBO-ICM is a liquid zirconia material suitable for printing industrial parts. It has high-strength and heat-resistance, so it is used in various industrial fields, and can also be applied to special fields such as jewelry and aerospace.


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Vector DB Monitoring Solution

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[INQ. NO. 2406E02] WeDataLab, a leading big data and AI solution company, recently announced that it has completed the development of its latest Vector DB monitoring solution, ‛Ezis for Vector DB’, and will officially launch it in September after a pilot test.
According to WeDataLab, ‛Ezis for Vector DB’ is expected to bring innovation to Vector DB management and establish itself as an essential tool for high-performance DB operation such as natural language processing, computer vision, search, and recommendation systems.
Vector DB is a DB that stores information as a vector, which is a numerical representation, and is strong in processing unstructured and semi-structured data, allowing for quick searches of related data.
The company’s high expectations are based upon the vector DB solution indexes and queries vector embeddings using algorithms such as hashing, quantization, and graph-based search, thereby supporting efficient and scalable search functions for large-scale, high-dimensional data sets.


 
 
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Voice-Recognition AI real-time Caption Solution

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[INQ. NO. 2406E01] A voice-recognition AI real-time caption solution appeared at the 32nd Korea International Broadcasting, Media, Audio & Lighting Show (KOBA 2024), recently held at COEX in Seoul.
This solution introduced by TINNO Co., Ltd. combines an existing streaming engine with voice-recognition AI software, developed in collaboration with an artificial intelligence (AI) company to generate and transmit caption.
TINNO is a company specializing in real-time Internet broadcasting and conference broadcasting, and this solution was also developed targeting the decision-making process that takes place in conferences.
Currently, only real-time Korean caption can be transmitted, but the company plans to allow caption to be converted to a ‘.txt file’ after the meeting ends.
An important task is also indicating who the speaker is. TINNO is considering a wide range of methods, including designating speakers for each microphone, and recognizing speakers through AI facial recognition.
A spokesperson for the company explained, “We are continuing to learn voice recognition, and the accuracy is over 95%,” adding, “In the future, we plan to add a real-time foreign language translation function, or a function that recognizes a dialect and converts it into standard language.”


 
 
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