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CES 2017: Withings Teams Up With L'Oreal for Smart Hairbrush
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The brush is nothing. At least you can still use it if goes berzerk and you need to shut it down, and just use a "normal" brush. But wait until it gets more serious with connected fridges for example. LG is coming up with one and everybody else seems to be jumping on the bandwagon.
If your fridge is hacked, you're f***ed.
And i can imagine a near future where you "intelligent" fridge is sending mandatory data to your insurance company about your "unhealty" consumption of ice cream in the middle of the night, since your fridge will be automatically reading the bar codes ( or whatever ID will be stucked on the packaged food items) of the food items that comes in it or goes out of it.
They keep inventing all these overpriced useless "smart" products
Meanwhile we still haven't gotten a real life hover board
Meanwhile we still haven't gotten a real life hover board
Like the toothbrush? Civil war in the bathroom! Toy Story for the 21st century.
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.
We've already got a cat for that.
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A Bluetooth pill box would be a genuinely useful thing (so much so I wouldn't be surprised if it already exists) - for some people forgetting to take medication could have serious and even fatal consequences - couple that with the forgetfulness of old age or Alzheimers and there's a good justification
Uh, it's a hairbrush, not really exclusively a "beauty product for women". I don't use one myself, preferring a simple comb, but my husband uses one. And some other guys take their hair care way more seriously than a lot of women I know. Unless we've got a special event to spruce up for, a lot of us women just pull it all back in a ponytail or better yet, get a nice short easy to maintain haircut. This would probably have gone over better in the 80's and the era of high maintenance hair.
Anyway, the anger is over the waste of resources to produce a "smart" product that implies humans are too bleeping stupid to do something as basic as brushing our own hair. If anything, if this product is in fact aimed at women, its very existence implies women are stupid and gullible enough to fall for this...unnecessary expenditure (to put it generously).
For all the health and human hygiene needs that people probably could use assistance with, time and money and our earth's precious natural resources get used to produce...this. That's what's inciting people to express scorn.
Nah, I think that a) there's not a lot of actual anger being expressed here, more amusement/bemusement/ridicule, and b) what anger there is being expressed is better characterised as 'scorn' like @GrumpyMom says, towards the patronising notion that anyone - whether male, female or otherwise - needs a so-called 'smart' hairbrush giving them advice. The concept is, I think, just patently absurd.
Given the ample evidence of almost (and sometimes literally) identical ridicule and scorn towards a long list of other 'smart' products that seem superfluous and bizarre, I think the implication that any kind of sexism or chauvanism is a motivating factor for the views expressed is one that, in my view, has no substantial evidence behind it.
It's good to challenge sexism where you find it, but I'm not convinced there's any to be found here.
Great. Now where the f**k is my bluetooth smart comb, dammit! How the hell am I supposed to remember which side I part my hair on every morning?
On a serious note, I think we've already taken the IoT too far. It's getting a bit ridiculous.
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On a serious note, I think we've already taken the IoT too far. It's getting a bit ridiculous.
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You may not have words, but do you have split ends? If so, I know just the thing for you!
Withings, Kérastase, and L'Oréal have teamed up to create the world's first Bluetooth-connected smart hairbrush that's able to interface with your smartphone.
The "Kérastase Hair Coach Powered by Withings" combines sensors created by Withings with signal analysis algorithms designed by L'Oréal to determine the quality of the hair and "monitor the effects" of your haircare routine.
There's a built-in microphone that listens to the sound of hair brushing to determine details about frizziness, dryness, split ends, and breakage, plus a feature that measures the force being applied to the hair and the scalp while you brush.
An accelerometer and a gyroscope analyze brushing patterns and count brush strokes, haptic feedback capabilities alert you if you're brushing too hard, and conductivity sensors can tell if you're brushing your hair wet or dry to provide accurate measurements.
The hairbrush connects to a mobile app that analyzes the data and ambient weather to provide a hair quality score, data on brushing habits, and customized product recommendations for different hair types.
The hairbrush will be priced at under $200 and will be available at Kérastase hair salons, the Kérastase website, and the Withings website in the fall of 2017.
Article Link: CES 2017: Withings Teams Up With L'Oreal for Smart Hairbrush
Withings should focus on fixing the ATROCIOUS companion app for their line of smart scales.
doesnt apple operate that way? they solve solutions to problems we didnt know existed? or made products before we even know we need them (iPad I think was the classic example)
Pill box might not be bad, specifically for older people or people with strict medication regiments.
My hair is awesome and generally takes care of itself, but I think having a device to tell me if it's damaged or not is a really neat idea. Maybe my hair won't be so awesome when I'm older and something like that might be useful.
Maybe some aren't annoyed that this is tech aimed primarily at women. I hope they're not, this is 2017 after all. Though I do some anti-women names posting in this thread (just going off what I see on the other boards here). That's all.
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I dunno, on first glance I thought this isn't for me. I don't use any products on my hair and it remains pretty awesome. But something to measure the quality of your hair outside of your hairdresser - well that actually sounds really useful. Especially if the user has a condition that damages hair or suffers hair loss. Maybe there's a big benefit for a small number of people.
There's value in R&D. This might just be a side effect of something else they're working on, or something they can patent and license out. When I think about some of the canned projects Apple were working on (and some they released... iPod Hifi, eep).
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What's up with you?
My mom and my mother-in-law both have medical issues that are resulting in hair damage and loss. This will not help them, unfortunately. I doubt it would help with male pattern baldness or alopecia, either, as the latter is an auto-immune condition. But I like your positive thinking and hope it can at least help people improve the condition of their hair somehow...without sending them down too many blind alleys spending lots of money in a hit or miss attempt at finding products that work.
I see the merit in your line of thinking. I'll try and open my mind a bit more. After all, I initially thought VR Goggles that use our cell phones were the stupidest thing ever. And...now... I'm a Gear VR addict...I love dodging the Great White shark in my shark cage. It hasn't gotten old yet!
The Joy of Tech had a comic on it today. "A symbol of everything wrong with our technological world," is the current winner on their poll.
