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Monday 29 December 2025
Luna Unveils Luna Band, Voice-Led LifeOS at CES 2026
Luna, the rapidly rising health-tech company redefining human performance, today unveiled the Luna Band, a groundbreaking new wearable designed to deliver real-time, voice-led health guidance. Powered by LifeOS, Luna's adaptive AI engine, the Luna Band represents a new category of personal health technology focused not on displaying data, but on providing timely, actionable guidance."In a market saturated with devices that simply report numbers and do analytics, Luna Band introduces a radically different philosophy: guidance over data"said the company's spokespersonBuilt around Luna's core pillars of biomarker intelligence, circadian rhythm, women's health, personal context, and 24/7 AI coaching, the Luna Band brings the full power of LifeOS to the wrist. With no monthly fees, the Band is positioned to democratize high-end health intelligence globally.A Voice-Led, Hands-Free Health ExperienceIn a first for any wearable, Luna band introduces fully hands-free, voice-led interactions, powered by Siri integrations. With Luna's dynamic logging, users can log meals, symptoms, emotional context, and request health guidance entirely through voice-input without even opening the Luna app. By allowing natural, conversational interaction through any earbuds or a connected device, Luna Band advances Luna's vision of a deeply integrated, ecosystem-agnostic LifeOS that works across devices and platforms.Advanced Biosensing for a New Level of PrecisionThe Luna Band features a research-grade optical sensor array paired with a high-fidelity 6-axis IMU. This sensing platform captures detailed physiological information associated with micro-recovery periods, circadian fluctuation, emotional stress signatures, and other subtle patterns that conventional consumer wearables often do not detect. This level of precision enables more informed and responsive health guidance.LifeOS: Real-Time Interpretation and Adaptive CoachingAt the core of the Luna Band is LifeOS, a real-time adaptive engine that processes thousands of physiological signals per minute. LifeOS identifies changes in recovery, stress, circadian alignment, and hormonal patterns, delivering context-aware recommendations throughout the day. The system is designed to offer timely support, ensuring users receive guidance at moments of highest relevance.Unified Health Ecosystem IntegrationLuna Band and Luna Ring serve as Luna's primary high-fidelity data collectors. But LifeOS also seamlessly integrates biomarker and usage data from Apple Health, Google Fit, Clue, Kindbody, and additional ecosystem partners to create a unified, longitudinal view of health. By integrating sleep, menstrual cycles, activity, stress, nutrition, and emotional inputs into a single framework, the Luna Band provides a comprehensive understanding of the user's daily physiological state.Redefining the Role of the WearableThe Luna Band establishes a new class of wearable technology centered on real-time guidance rather than retrospective reporting. By combining advanced sensing, adaptive intelligence, hands-free interaction, and broad ecosystem integration, Luna delivers a continuous health companion designed to support informed decision-making throughout the day, without subscription fees.Luna Band will be unveiled at Pepcom on 5th January 2026. CES attendees can see Luna Band firsthand at 55623, Venetian A-D Hall.
Monday 29 December 2025
Global IT and Innovation: Kyrgyz Republic at CES 2026
The High Technology Park of the Kyrgyz Republic (HTP) will participate in CES 2026, presenting the country's growing strength in artificial intelligence, digital health, blockchain technologies, and large-scale IT exports for global markets. At Booth 50265, the Kyrgyz delegation will showcase technology companies delivering AI products, telemedicine platforms, blockchain infrastructure, and software development services for clients worldwide.The Kyrgyz Republic has become one of the fastest-growing technology exporters in its region. In 2024, Kyrgyz IT specialists provided services to clients in more than 63 countries, generating $130 million in IT exports. The United States ranked first, accounting for around 40 percent of total exports, with an export volume exceeding $50 million, including cooperation with companies in Silicon Valley. Over the past five years, the country's IT exports have grown 45-fold, marking a structural shift toward high-value digital services and proprietary technology development. HTP now brings together a network of 500 software development companies and 3,000 developers, ready to meet the full range of client needs.Among the technologies presented at CES 2026 is KaniTTS, an open-source text-to-speech model developed by the AI startup NineNineSix. KaniTTS redefines real-time, human-like voice generation, matching the performance of leading commercial voice models while remaining fully open and free under the Apache 2.0 license. Since its release, KaniTTS has been downloaded more than 15,000 times on Hugging Face, drawing international attention for its speed, expressivity, and accessibility. The model is capable of generating 15 seconds of natural speech in just one second on a consumer-grade NVIDIA RTX 5080 GPU, enabling true real-time performance without cloud-scale infrastructure. The base model currently supports eight languages: English, German, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Kyrgyz, and Japanese.In parallel, NineNineSix together with HTP has released Kyrgyz Whisper, an open-source automatic speech recognition model fine-tuned on Whisper to deliver native speech recognition for Kyrgyz, Russian, and English. Performance highlights include a dramatic improvement in Kyrgyz word error rate from approximately 100 percent to 0.2 WER, while maintaining stable performance in English and Russian. Two model variants are available, a small version with 0.2 billion parameters and a medium version with 0.8 billion parameters, both supporting LoRA fine-tuning for domain adaptation and further improvements.The Kyrgyz delegation also includes Blockchain Data, a blockchain technology company developing digital infrastructure and crypto-related solutions. The Kyrgyz Republic has recently completed a major milestone in the digital finance sector with the launch of its national stablecoin, KGST, pegged 1:1 to the Kyrgyz som. KGST complies with international KYC/AML standards, features multi-level authentication, and has completed technical testing for deployment on both regional and global crypto platforms. According to the Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption Index, the Kyrgyz Republic ranks 19th globally in cryptocurrency usage, reflecting an active, regulated, and rapidly developing crypto ecosystem.Digital health innovation will also be represented through Hi Doctor, an AI-powered telemedicine and clinical decision-support platform founded by diagnostic physician Nursultan Masalbekov. The product emerged from real clinical practice, where the lack of digital tools forced doctors to spend excessive time on documentation instead of patient care. Hi Doctor combines AI-driven analysis of clinical data, a voice assistant for medical documentation, and telemedicine tools, including NORAi, which analyzes patients' vital signs during video consultations. The platform is actively used by doctors and medical institutions across Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In multiple cases, AI-supported recommendations contributed to the early detection of HIV, cardiomyopathies, oncological and genetic conditions, later confirmed through laboratory testing, demonstrating the platform's real clinical impact.The Kyrgyz Republic invites attendees to meet its delegation at CES 2026 at the High Technology Park of the Kyrgyz Republic, Booth 50265, from January 6 to 9, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Monday 29 December 2025
BOS Semiconductors Presents AI Box for Mobility at CES 2026
SEOUL, South Korea—December 24, 2025—BOS Semiconductors, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in automotive and physical AI semiconductors, today announced that it will participate in CES 2026, the world's largest technology exhibition, taking place in Las Vegas, USA from January 6–9, 2026. At the event, BOS will unveil an AI Box demo designed for next-generation mobility.At CES 2026, BOS will highlight its strategy aligned with major industry trends, including the advancement of autonomous driving, the shift toward Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs), and the expansion of Physical AI. Through the demonstrations, BOS will present how to anticipate emerging needs in mobility AI environments - such as: Support for a wide range of AI models based on CNN and Transformer architectures, Flexible scalability and integration with existing automotive electronic systems, Real-time perception and decision-making enabled by physical AI.To support these capabilities, BOS will showcase AI model demos powered by its AI Box integrating the high-performance AI accelerator Eagle-N. The AI Box is an external AI computing module that allows automakers (OEMs) to add an "AI brain" to vehicles without replacing existing in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, enabling fast AI expansion with minimal platform change.With the AI Box, OEMs can minimize changes to their existing systems while extending high-performance AI functionality independently. This approach accelerates adoption of advanced AI capabilities not only in new vehicles but also in facelift models - updated versions of existing vehicles with enhanced design and features - reducing development cost and time while improving long-term product competitiveness.The AI Box is based on an on-device AI architecture, delivering several advantages. Sensitive data such as voice and video can be processed directly inside the vehicle rather than being transmitted to the cloud, strengthening privacy protection and data security. It also ensures stable AI operation regardless of network connectivity, improving overall reliability. Over the long term, the AI Box can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by lowering cloud traffic, inference, and storage costs. In addition, it offers strong scalability without requiring server expansion as the number of users increases.BOS' AI Box is designed to integrate flexibly with existing vehicle systems through multiple interfaces, enabling an efficient AI vehicle architecture based on clear role separation: AI-intensive functions are handled by the AI Box, while existing systems continue performing their original roles. At the booth (Venetian Expo, Hall A, Booth #50017), BOS will demonstrate on-device AI models that combine Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) based on the AI Box architecture. The demo will also be showcased at the Tenstorrent Demo Room as well."Through our AI Box demo with Eagle-N at CES 2026, we will present a practical approach for effectively scaling AI capabilities even on existing mobility system," said Jason (Jeongseok) Chae, Vice President and Head of Strategic Marketing & Sales at BOS. "We aim to evolve beyond automotive semiconductors and become a core semiconductor company leading the era of Physical AI."