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CES 2017: Withings Teams Up With L'Oreal for Smart Hairbrush
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Phone connected enema coming next; keep track of my bowel movements.
I guess strokes could be useful to know. I've heard people say that more strokes makes hair softer. I don't know if that's true though. And my toothbrush tells me if I am pushing to hard, even though it doesn't hurt. Maybe you can pull to hard without it hurting? Or maybe pulling can be interpreted as a degree of knotting? I can kind of see why this would exist. Really, if the price was under $50 I know three women who would try it. Or at least I would get it for them as a birthday gift.
The problem is Withings is a terrible software developer. I have one of their body scales, and while the scale is amazing their app is terrible. Integration with healthkit and S Health is either absent or broken. Syncing data is typically more reliable via 3d party software than via official software. Withings software team thinks that because tbeir API's are freely available the apps can be incomplete. Of course this is only my opinion after talking with their level three tech support. I came to this opinion after I got an email from Withings that says exactly that.
The problem is Withings is a terrible software developer. I have one of their body scales, and while the scale is amazing their app is terrible. Integration with healthkit and S Health is either absent or broken. Syncing data is typically more reliable via 3d party software than via official software. Withings software team thinks that because tbeir API's are freely available the apps can be incomplete. Of course this is only my opinion after talking with their level three tech support. I came to this opinion after I got an email from Withings that says exactly that.
Our exceptional algorithms and unique secret wave-analysis software has assessed your personal hairbrushing data and reached the following conclusions:
• Buy more L'OLreal products.
• Use them more regularly, if necessary.
• Your canny purchase of this smart hairbrush has determined in your case, it's: necessary.
However much shampoo, conditioner and other products you use... keep doing that. But have you thought about maybe doing that some more? And how about trying our new products too, as they might be even better for your hair. Press the button in our App for more personlised recommendations For You (see, we know all the lingo). So buy more L'OLreal products. You know you want to. And if you don't know you want to, let us tell you something: your hair wants you to. Listen to your hair! All thanks to the amazing smart hairbrush from Wigthings, Kómotose and L'OLreal.
• Buy more L'OLreal products.
• Use them more regularly, if necessary.
• Your canny purchase of this smart hairbrush has determined in your case, it's: necessary.
However much shampoo, conditioner and other products you use... keep doing that. But have you thought about maybe doing that some more? And how about trying our new products too, as they might be even better for your hair. Press the button in our App for more personlised recommendations For You (see, we know all the lingo). So buy more L'OLreal products. You know you want to. And if you don't know you want to, let us tell you something: your hair wants you to. Listen to your hair! All thanks to the amazing smart hairbrush from Wigthings, Kómotose and L'OLreal.
Next will be the smart condom. It will send you a "push" notification when you reach climax.
A proper hairdresser could tell you the same things about your hair for much less money and more accuracy.
I honestly feel like a TP holder that serves as a usage reminder - a way to conserve on paper/avoid potentially clogging toilets - would be vastly more useful than this hairbrush.
Every CES this happens. Some company releases a Bluetooth toothbrush, fork, or water bottle to grab headlines and then the product is never heard from again. This year it's a hairbrush. Next year it will be a belt that tells you if you're too fat. I can already see them copying this idea as I type.
Want some more? Bluetooth shaver for a perfect trim. Bluetooth pill box to remind you to take your meds. Bluetooth toilet seat to remind me when I'm done so I can stop commenting on MacRumors.
Want some more? Bluetooth shaver for a perfect trim. Bluetooth pill box to remind you to take your meds. Bluetooth toilet seat to remind me when I'm done so I can stop commenting on MacRumors.
Actually that's not a bad idea. It could just tell you when the food bowl is empty so your furry friends don't go hungry. I'd buy it.
$200 wow..... needs a premium version with touch bar, iPhone support is so 2015!
In all honesty, I hope this fails so hard. No one needs their hair brush, toenail clipper, bidet or whatever phoning home about your personal care habits.
Notice the collaboration here with the salon and the cosmetics brand. I can see the push notifications now:
Hey, looks like it is almost time for a cut and color. Here's 10% off at Kérastase...
Your hair sounds #*√%π up. Here is a list of L'Oréal products you should get. Order now with Apple Pay! All sales final.
Dear Sir, You should probably pay more attention to your wife. The warranty on the expensive as hell hair brush you bought her doesn't cover damage from liquid/improper use. Here are a list of the L'Oréal products she likes...
It is stuff like this that makes me wonder how the hell the world rejected Clippy in MS Office, but we'll buy anything with the word "smart" smacked on it.
Notice the collaboration here with the salon and the cosmetics brand. I can see the push notifications now:
Hey, looks like it is almost time for a cut and color. Here's 10% off at Kérastase...
Your hair sounds #*√%π up. Here is a list of L'Oréal products you should get. Order now with Apple Pay! All sales final.
Dear Sir, You should probably pay more attention to your wife. The warranty on the expensive as hell hair brush you bought her doesn't cover damage from liquid/improper use. Here are a list of the L'Oréal products she likes...
It is stuff like this that makes me wonder how the hell the world rejected Clippy in MS Office, but we'll buy anything with the word "smart" smacked on it.
I love CES. Not because of any products I want to buy, or will make the slightest difference in my life, but because I get to spend a week reading headlines and articles about the most hilarious and absolutely ridiculous connected[things] imaginable. Nobody will ever buy them, they will be completely forgotten in a couple of weeks, and it'll happen all over again at the next CES.
I mean, seriously, last year we had like two or three different connected water bottles or cups, connected fork and spoon, connected toothbrush... I seem to remember a connected bowl, but that might just be my sense of humor working. If not, it's only a matter of time.
Already 2017 has given us a connected hairbrush--come on, start-ups, surely somebody can top a $200 bluetooth hairbrush!
I mean, seriously, last year we had like two or three different connected water bottles or cups, connected fork and spoon, connected toothbrush... I seem to remember a connected bowl, but that might just be my sense of humor working. If not, it's only a matter of time.
Already 2017 has given us a connected hairbrush--come on, start-ups, surely somebody can top a $200 bluetooth hairbrush!
