For those of you guys looking for a more gentle shave, Panasonic’s Lamdash which comes to market mid-April, could be the product for which you’ve been waiting. The shavers include ‘whisker’ sensing technology to detect the density of your beard, then adjusting automatically for the best setup to gently cut hair.
Waterproof rating of IPX7 (immersion for upto 30 minutes at a depth of 1 meter) in a pen grip style, you can use these shavers inside or outside of the shower. …
Electric beauty product devices have become amazingly popular in Japan – things like facial massagers, face steamers, etc. – to help maintain the beauty of your skin.
Now Maxell has developed a handy smartphone attachment lens, called “Memoret”, available in Japan, that you can use to take close-up high definition photos of skin to see closely its condition, texture, etc., so that you can monitor problems, etc.
Maxell is also developing a smart phone app called …
Yesterday Fujitsu announced in Japan a new cloud based service for women : Hada Memory or Skin Memory, an application that will help Japanese women to track their skin condition and help diagnose any possible problems. By simply taking a picture of your skin or any “dark” area that you may have on your face, Hada Memori will not only track the evolution of your skin color but also send your skin data to professionals and doctors to better help you to fix any potential problems and …
I would like to thanks Phys.org for this find and must admit that, well, I would be very interesting in giving on of these Seiren Japan new DEOEST underwear line-up a try.
Seiren is a Japanese textile company that is offering underpants, socks and t-shirts designed to absorb bad smell and other “natural” scents that may involuntary “escape” from your body.
Anyway DEOEST is not really something new per se since it has been introduced in March of this year, but I have to admit that I wish more …
Panasonic has developed a prototype dry head spa robot, which in the future could be attached to a desk or bath. It uses robot hand technology previously developed for use in their hair washing robot.
“For kneading the scalp while the hair is dry, people use dry head spas. So, we’ve added a robot hand we’d already developed for washing hair, and developed this, as a model for seeing how such therapy might feel.”
To start the dry head spa, you first adjust the head …
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Pioneer did not had much to offer, at least that we did not really know about, at this year CEATEC, however they shown a very interesting product that for once was not related to Pioneer’s core business : Audio, by introducing a nice Mirror to help women to get a professional lighting to help them apply their makeup. The concept is rather simple by not only offering the best ligthing possible by using a pair of 4 LED lights, but also to give you the possibility to change the light …
Toyota has developed the Partner Robot, to provide everyday assistance for people with disabilities. This robot has a compact, cylindrical body, so it can turn round in small spaces, as well as folding arms, which can do tasks such as fetching objects and opening curtains.
The robot is controlled easily, by using the touch interface on a smartphone or speech recognition. It can also be controlled remotely by a caregiver, while communicating with the user.
“For robots to operate in …
A research group at Gifu University is developing a virtual anatomical model. It is currently being used as a medical teaching resource to educate users about cerebral nerves.
“This object has a sensor which detects its position and orientation, so when you move it like this, the picture moves with it. First of all, you can use this capability to bring the picture and the object together. When you look from that side, I think things appear quite distorted, but to someone looking though …
The Guitarion, being developed at Chiba University’s Graduate School of Engineering, is a guitar that can be played by hemiplegics. People with unilateral paralysis, as a result of a stroke or other reason, can play the Guitarion using only their unaffected side.
“The guitar is held in place by the non-disabled hand, and to play it, there’s a solenoid in this part. The solenoid works with a foot switch. When you press the switch, the solenoid moves up and down, and the picks …
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