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No Hassle, Continuous Gut Monitoring for Proactive Health
At CES 2026, the concept of the “smart home” moved deeper into the most private room of the house. While ViodiTV has previously explored the evolution of “health from the hip” with companies like Olive Diagnostics and the high-tech wellness concepts from Toto, a new player, Throne Science, is looking to make gut health monitoring…
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Aerleum Fuel from Thin Air
What if the secret to decarbonizing the hardest-to-abate industries wasn’t buried deep underground, but was floating right in front of our faces? In the above interview, Steven Bardey, PhD, CTO/co-founder of Aerleum, showcased a technology that sounds like science fiction but is quickly becoming a modular reality: capturing CO2 directly from the sky and turning…
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The Rise of Local AI in a Fun & Educational Way
Privacy and power. In the world of semiconductor design, these are often the “Sophie’s Choice” of engineering—you can have one, but usually at the expense of the other. However, as Dr. Diana Zhu, Head of U.S. for RiseLink Technologies, explains the above interview, a new generation of edge AI silicon is proving product designers don’t…
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Next Step: Autonomous Music Producer Agents
The above song, produced the week of February 16th, 2026, was a test of Google’s Music_gen tool, which is powered by Lyria. The resulting song and associated image were created in about 30 seconds. The prompt was inspired by this human’s view from his window. That image is shown in the first part of the…
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Optimizing Locally Run AI
In the fast-moving world of on-device AI, the gap between a high-performing model and a functional product is often a hardware bottleneck. At CES 2026, ViodiTV caught up with Junyoung Seo, COO of Opt AI, to discuss how their award-winning platform, OptHancer™, is bridging that divide. The “Surgical” Approach to AI As Seo explains in…
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A Smart Cane Improving the Mobility Experience for the Visually Impaired
At CES 2025, Gokhan Mericililer, CEO and co-founder of WeWalk, unveiled the Smart Cane 2, a device designed to transform the traditional white cane into a high-tech mobility companion for the visually impaired. By integrating advanced sensors and AI, the company aims to modernize a tool that has remained largely unchanged for over a century.…
