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LG H&H to display portable tattoo printer at MWC tech fair

LG Household & Health(LG H&H)'s temprorary tattoo printer Imprintu will be displayed at the MWC 2023 in Barcelona [LG H&H]

LG Household & Health(LG H&H)'s temprorary tattoo printer Imprintu will be displayed at the MWC 2023 in Barcelona [LG H&H]

 
With a week left before this year’s MWC kicks off, LG Household & Health (LG H&H) said Monday that it will display a portable tattoo printer at the tech fair.
 
It is the first time for a local cosmetics company to attend the MWC event.  
 
MWC, or Mobile World Congress, is the world’s largest connectivity event held in Barcelona, Spain. This year’s MWC will run for four days from Feb. 27, Monday, under the theme of “Velocity: Unleashing tomorrow’s technology — Today.”
 
About 2,000 companies from 160 countries will attend the tech show, including SK Telecom and KT from Korea.
 
LG H&H became the latest and unexpected addition to this year’s booth list.  
 
The cosmetics company plans to showcase its temporary tattoo printer named Imprintu — a portmanteau of impromptu and print — at the MWC 2023.
 
The temporary tattoos printed on the skin with the Imprintu device last for about a day, according to LG H&H. The printer will allow users to create a temporary tattoo of any image they want and print it using a vegan ink cartridge developed by the company.  
 
Tattoo designs created by LG’s Exaone multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) system will be uploaded on the Imprintu app, said LG H&H.
 
Imprintu will be available in the North American and Korean markets in the second quarter this year, and will later be released in other regions.
 
SK Telecom's quantum crypto chip, a combination of a quantum random number generator and a crypto chip, co-developed with IDQ and KCS [SK TELECOM]

SK Telecom's quantum crypto chip, a combination of a quantum random number generator and a crypto chip, co-developed with IDQ and KCS [SK TELECOM]

 
KT and SK Telecom, Korea’s two largest telecom companies, are also attending this year’s MWC. Each company’s CEO and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won will be present as well, along with Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho.
 
It is the first time for Chey to attend the MWC.
 
LG U+, however, decided to withdraw its plan to set up a booth, following the recent customer data leakage incident and network disruptions caused by cyberattacks.
 
At the MWC 2023, SK Telecom plans to set up a 1,000-square-meter booth to showcase its urban air mobility (UAM) and AI-related technologies, including its AI chip Sapeon.
 
The company will also display its next-generation quantum crypto chip, a semiconductor for security purposes that can be used in internet-of-things devices, for the first time at the MWC. Co-developed with SK Square's subsidiary IDQ and KCS, a local IT company, the quantum crypto chip is a combination of a quantum random number generator and a crypto chip.
 
KT's booth at the MWC 2023 event, which will be held in Barcelona from Feb. 27 to Mar. 2 [KT]

KT's booth at the MWC 2023 event, which will be held in Barcelona from Feb. 27 to Mar. 2 [KT]

 
KT will present AI chip technologies of local start-ups Rebellions and Moreh, as well as AI delivery robots, with a focus on digital transformation. KT invested 30 billion won in Rebellions and has 3.94 percent of Moreh.
 
Five sub-themes for the MWC 2023 are: 5G acceleration, reality+, OpenNet, fintech and digital everything.
 
Network usage fees will be one of the hot topics as well, as the European Commission is mulling imposing an internet traffic tax on big tech companies.  
 

BY SHIN HA-NEE, KWEN YU-JIN [shin.hanee@joongang.co.kr]
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