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L'Oréal's wearable sensor will track your UV exposure throughout the day
L'Oréal has announced a wearable device that measures your exposure to ultraviolet radiation that can seriously damage your skin and eyes and potentially cause skin cancer. The La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor is designed to clip onto your clothes or bag, and it relies on NFC rather than Bluetooth to transmit its data, meaning it doesn't require a battery to function. L'Oreal previously introduced a similar sensor that attached to your fingernail.
Despite the dangers of UV radiation, it can be very difficult to know exactly how much you're being exposed to. UVA rays can penetrate clouds and glass, which means you're probably exposed to them more than you think. L'Oréal's sensor has the potential to educate people about how often they're being exposed, although it won't solve the problem of people not using enough sunscreen in response.
Once your phone has the UV data, it can integrate it into Apple's HealthKit if you're using an iOS device. There will also be shortcuts to purchase skincare products from L'Oréal's skincare brand La Roche-Posay within the app.
Love the skin you're in. Especially if you're a vampire.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:35PM (2 children)
I bought something like this to go with the new family convertible car in Houston around 2003... it worked, but it was too much fuss and bother to tell you something you pretty much know instinctively anyway.
Maybe if your cell-phone would do this and all you had to do was put it in a sun-exposed holder, that might be convenient enough (like the phone based fitness trackers) to make sense to me. The whole idea of strapping on a fitness tracker, downloading the data to another device for graphing / storing / sharing is just too much for my life - wouldn't you have been better off spending that time doing something else to enhance your fitness, or happiness?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday November 15 2018, @07:07AM (1 child)
1. Put the function in all smartwatches.
2. Add a dosimeter, very useful feature for the post-WW3 world.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:55PM
Pre-requisite: make smartwatches with batteries that last for months, not hours.
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