While some amazing new tech was unveiled at CES last week, there was also the usual crop of impractical, silly, and downright weird. BRYAN TURNER rounds up the worst on show
According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, around 1 in 5 men start going bald by the age of 30. A device from HairMax promises to turn back the clock by strengthening hair growth with the Flip 80. It’s a cap that stimulates hair growth, and it’s approved by the FDA. The only issue: if you’re completely bald, there’s no going back. The device stimulates hair growth of existing follicles because a dead follicle isn’t going to spring back to life. That said, if one’s hair is starting to thin, this device may help keep existing follicles alive. Either that or topical minoxidil. Some people really are this desperate.
AI comes to wash basins
The pandemic has made everyone very aware of the importance of hand washing. Now Medic-lead has solved a problem every other basin has: those basins are not 100% WHO compliant. The Handsteco basin uses machine-learned models to make sure users are reaching every part of their hand with soap, then restarting the faucet once the hand washing has completed.
It also has a subscription service for its business customers called Wash basin as a Software service (WasS). This enables staff in food service to be tracked in how often and how well they wash their hands. At least singing happy birthday is now royalty-free.
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