Prevents forgotten things when going out

At the start-up festival Slush Tokyo 2019, home appliance maker Panasonic exhibited the booth of "Game Changer Catapult", an innovation accelerator activity that realizes ideas. The release of the gadgets there has not been decided yet, but they were all attractive. Among them, Hitokoe, which prevents forgetting when going out at the entrance of the house, is very practical.

This is an outing assistant gadget that will let you know when you leave the house if you forget something.
Usage is easy. Put RFID tags on items you do not want to forget, and just register those QR codes with smartphone to mobile app. Then, if you forget them when you leave home, it will let you know, and if you are not doing the forgotten, it will see you as "I’ll see you later". This will support your items by classifying them into three categories: "What you need every day" "What you need for a specific day" "What you need depending on the weather".

Put RFID tags on items you carry around every day, this will detect whether you are losing something every day you go out, for items that are necessary only for a specific day, this will detect based on pre-registered schedules, and or items that are necessary according to the weather, it will acquire weather information of the day and detect forgotten items.
These are still in development stage, but the development team intends to implement functions such as preventing pollen and PM2.5 unpleasant things from entering the house in and informing traffic information at the time of going out.

When you take a walk, you get a coupon

Walking is effective for maintaining health, but if you use this application, walking may help your household.
Agoop, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK that utilizes location information and do Big Data business, released WalkCoin, a mobile application that allows coins to be collected by walking and participating in a lottery by using it.

You can get coins according to the number of steps by walking every day, and you can challenge the lottery when they reach the target number. Since you step count automatically automatically when you walk, you do not need to operate something with this application. Also, since it has a diary function to record action history of a day, you can use it as a life log.

They are currently preparing Amazon gift certificates as prizes, and you may be able to earn up to 10,000 yen gift certificate by lottery. By the way, if your number of steps per day is 6,000 steps or more, you will receive 1 coin, but if you are less than 6000 steps you can not get coins. Now, this is only iOS version, and downloading is free.

Collaboration with Handicapher and Traditional Crafts

You can feel the change of the season while cleaning. It may be a way to spend luxurious time.
Shark Ninja has accepted purchase reservations for their handy cleaner Shark EVOPOWER and special versions collaborated with pottery brand Gagyu-Gama.

Gagyu-Gama was launched in the 17th century and is now a traditional craft designated as an intangible cultural property in Nagasaki Prefecture.
They made a total of 48 special versions with the theme of the four seasons. On these bodies, beautiful pictures by master of Gagyu-Gama are painted in hand-drawn. Gordon Thom, the CEO of Shark Japan who was a diplomat at the time in the 1980s, met Gagyu-Gama during his stay in Japan and was impressed with tradition and technology. About thirty years later, in 2018 he met Gagyu-Gama again at the department store, and this eventualized this collaboration.

Only 48 of these special versions will be made. If purchasers exceed them, they decide who can purchase by lottery. They accept purchase applications until February 28 23:59.

Gagyu-Gama Special page 
https://www.shark.co.jp/gagyu/

The size of EVOPOWER special version is 419 x 54 x 61mm, the weighs is 620g, rechargeable battery, it runs for about 24 minutes with 2.5 hours charging time. The price is 22,680yen(in tax), and purchasers are informed in early March.

This feed your pet in your voice

Do you get annoyed by feeding your pets sometimes? Or are you concerned about pet feeding while traveling? This may solve your problem.
G-Force launched a new pet item brand WAGWAG, released a timer-type rotary automatic feeder "WAGWAG Auto Feeder" and a circulating automatic water feeder "WAGWAG Water Fountain" for cats and small dogs.

WAGWAG Auto Feeder will feed your pets by rotating the tray with your recorded voice at the time you set. You can set a maximum of 5 servings of food for this, so if you go on a sudden business trip or a short trip, you can feed your pets. The feeding part of this is the shape of the subdivided trays, you can set wet food like canned on this. The power supply of this is a household AC adapter, but you can set AAA batteries instead of this, you can use this as an emergency backup power supply.

WAGWAG Water Fountain is a circulating automatic water dispenser that circulates drinking water while filtering water with a filter. It has 3 L tanks and 800 ml bowl, you can add not only water but also feed and cat grasses. Also, because the nano silver sterilization filter of this sterilizes bacteria, fungi and viruses in water, you can always give pets clean water. The size of WAGWAG Auto Feeder is 360 × 112 × 335mm, the weight is 1,900g, and the price is 11,880yen(in tax). The size of WAGWAG Water Fountain is 320 × 220 × 145mm, the weight is 1,050g, and the price is 7,020yen(in tax). Both are already sold at Amazon.co.jp.

Sensor device for racer ZECH-1

Gadget maker Cerevo is a CES regular. As usual, they also showed various new products this time, and many of them were related to sports. ZECH-1, a new lineup of their sports gadget brand XON is a sensing device for motor sports which can recognize the running condition of the machine with a sensor, synthesize the visualized data and the video shooted by the camera in real time and livestreaming.

Users attach this to the racing car and connect it to the OBD - II connector for use. Because it can generate real-time visualized information and livestreaming, members of the racing team can analyze the race in real time using the running data. In addition, it has 6 axis sensor and GPS, and can record data such as position information, speed, acceleration, angular velocity and condition of the vehicle while driving, and store them in the microSD card. HDMI is 480/60p ~ 1080/60p, and the recording resolution is 1080/60p at the maximum. You can connect to the Internet with 3G/LTE or wireless LAN. Power is supplied from the vehicle battery and the external battery(They are supposed to use USB Type-C). The size of this is 180 × 71 × 27.5 mm, and they aim to release this for about 100,000 yen this summer for racers.