Kolmar Korea said its AI-based "Scar Beauty Device" technology won the best of innovation award in the beauty tech institutional sector at CES 2026, the world's largest IT and home appliance trade show. It also won an innovation award in the digital health institutional sector, taking two crowns.
The best of innovation award is given only to technologies that receive the highest scores across all evaluation items, including innovativeness, design, and technological prowess. Established last year, the award drew attention when Samsung Electronics was named the first recipient. This year, Kolmar Korea was selected as the most noteworthy technology among the 10 beauty tech institutional sector innovation award winners.
Kolmar Korea's "Scar Beauty Device" is the world's first device that can handle wound treatment and makeup coverage at the same time. Previously, a person would apply ointment and then cover the wound with makeup, but with this device, treatment and beauty can both be completed in 10 minutes.
When the wound area is photographed with a smartphone app, an AI algorithm classifies the wound into 12 types and precisely analyzes its condition. It then precisely sprays the appropriate treatment using piezoelectric micro-spraying technology. At the same time, it combines more than 180 shades tailored to the user's skin tone to spray the optimal cover makeup powder. The "piezoelectric micro-spraying technology" used in this process pushes out ink with electrical signals in an inkjet printer manner, allowing precise spraying without heat generation.
The Scar Beauty Device applies an intuitive user interface and experience (UI/UX) design that allows users to check and control the amount of treatment sprayed in real time via the smartphone screen. It was well received for convenience, as general consumers can use it easily.
Kolmar Korea plans to begin full-scale client acquisition in the second half of this year. It will also advance software so the core piezoelectric micro-spraying technology can be applied to customized cosmetics production, and, in connection with the current government-led AX (AI Transformation) research project, accelerate Smart Factory design.
A Kolmar Korea official said, "Going forward, we will continue to introduce differentiated beauty tech solutions that combine AI and digital technology, leading the beauty tech field."