Neutrogena will 3D print custom face masks based on buyers' skin measurements
Last year at CES, Neutrogena introduced an iPhone accessory — the Skin360 — that scans users' faces to assess their skin condition and moisture levels. At this year's show, the company is building off that device to create custom face masks through a new iOS app called MaskiD.
The Skin360 isn't necessary to use the app, although Neutrogena says it'll give a more accurate assessment of users' skin needs. However, the app does rely on the TrueDepth camera in the iPhone X, XS, and XR to take a 3D image of users' faces, the idea being that every mask is customized to fit each person. The eye slits match up with an individual user's eyes, for example, as does the mouth opening.
The company will offer five main ingredients to start with: stabilized vitamin C, purified hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, feverfew, and N-Acetylglucosamine. Every mask has six zones, including the forehead, eye area, cheeks, nose, chin, and chin-to-cheek lines, and the ingredients in each area can be chosen based on users' concerns. For example, if your cheeks are particularly dull, you might opt to use stabilized vitamin C in that area. The masks are colored for now, to show off the different zones, but that could change before the app and masks are widely released.
People with the Skin360 can also monitor their skin's moisture levels and lines on a deeper level to see if the mask is improving their condition. Neutrogena hasn't announced the masks' price yet, but says they'll go on sale in Q3 of this year.
3D printing with snake oil gel?
Also at Allure.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Thursday January 03 2019, @11:54PM
Oh... never mind, just plain old data collection...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @12:06AM (2 children)
But does it work for people with darker skin?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @12:10AM
Yes, except for niggers.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @12:31AM
Yes, they get added to the database too...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @02:55AM
Stupid, but this will probably make oodles of money. So I guess not so stupid.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 04 2019, @07:17AM (2 children)
All night long doing all the sorts of skin care most knockouts would do in forty-five minutes.
But there is a simple yet quite difficult way to get the vibrant healthy skin she so-desperately seeks:
"Everyone who gets off Heroin has their complexion clear right up."
She wants children, and she's twenty-eight. Someone I think her at SN pointed out that no one ever gets clean unless they have a real good reason other than ending their suffering. One such reason would be that one wants to bear a child.
This woman _never_ sleeps, rather she passes out when she "Gets Well". It's clear to me that she's not really sleeping when she's strung out like that, in that there are many benefits to our minds, our bodies and especially our brains that come from sleeping well. She Gets None Of That.
Reading up on nutrition for myself a month ago led me to conclude that I'm deficient in the Amino Acid l-Tryptophan. To be deficient in any one Amino has the effect of reducing one's Amino Acid Utilization, which has much the same effect as just not eating enough protein. Happily, Tryptophan is abundant in chickpeas and sesame seeds so I've been eating lots of Hummus, soy as well so I've been eating lots of tofu.
Get This: Dark Chocolate is rich in Tryptophan.
Some similar reading led to my understanding that "Sarah" - not her real name - is deficient in Calcium - she has _terrible_ teeth - Vitamins D and B6 and Iron. If you need Iron you also need B12 as both Iron and B12 are required to make red blood cells.
So I came up with my very own Hollywood Fad Diet: Dark Chocolate, Oranges so as to increase the Bioavailability in Iron-rich foods such as that Dark Chocolate, Spinach and other dark leafy greens, Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Eggs, Fish, Shellfish, Oats, Whole Grain bread and a few other truly staple foods.
But Sarah and I both face a serious problem:
That woman never eats food.
No, she carries around Crystal Light Fruit Punch Concentrate and lives damn near solely off of that.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @04:41PM (1 child)
Quit hanging out with literal crack whores.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 05 2019, @09:43PM
Well there's cigarettes.
This all stems from her Chronic Anxiety - Generalized Anxiety Disorder. She needs enough downers to sedate a herd of buffalo just to feel normal.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @01:39PM
Forget it, I'd rather have my butt scanned by Ikea [soylentnews.org].