This year the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES), an international trade show held annually in Las Vegas, NV, broke all previous records in CES history with over 170,000 industry professionals and 3,600 exhibitors convening on the latest trends in technology this year.  Representing a diversity of themes ranging from wearable technologies to 3D printers to Internet of Things, a record number of startups showcased at the trade show this year, including two Greentown member companies: CoolChip Technologies and Voxel8.

CoolChip Technologies has refined a kinetic cooling process in order to optimize cooling
capacity per unit weight and volume in commercial electronics.  They have developed an integrated fan/heat sink that takes up half the space of a conventional cooling system and emits significantly less noise while still delivering a 50 percent increase in cooling efficiency.

While showcasing at CES, CoolChip announced its partnership with Cooler Master, a Taiwanese company, which will handle the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of CoolChip’s innovative thermal solution for electronics cooling.  CEO William Sanchez described the enthusiasm demonstrated by the gamer community and computer server industry, both of which will be end-users of CoolChip’s technology.

While this was the first time CoolChip showcased at CES, they came away with the following advice: “You have to know what you want to see and know what you’re looking for. Your approach must be selected, targeted, otherwise there is so much to see and so much going on that you won’t be able to gain as much from the experience.”

Voxel8 also had the opportunity to showcase at the historic tradeshow this year, unveiling the world’s first 3D electronics printer.  Using materials researched for nearly a decade at Harvard SEAS Lab, Voxel8 is able to print embedded conductors, wires, and batteries into the normal matrix materials of 3D printing.

Company founder Daniel Oliver interacted with industry professionals, entrepreneurs and engineers at CES, and described to them how their printer “removes design constraints that have been there for decades,” effectively “liberating” electrical and mechanical engineers of problems they have been trying to solve for years.

When prompted to reflect on his first experience at CES, Oliver replied, “We’ve got lots of promises to deliver on. People want the product.”