Procter and Gamble Unveils New Device That Aims To Remove Signs of Aging (bbc.com) 147
In a video for the BBC, technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones uses Procter and Gamble's new device to maker him look younger. Called Opte, the device scans the skin and precisely applies tiny amounts of make-up to remove age spots, burst blood vessels and other blemishes. Opte has a camera in it that captures 200 frames per second and processes that data by looking at the difference of the color of your skin. It then sends it to a microprocessor and 120 thermal inkjet printers print the product directly on your skin. The company says it works with all skin colors via three different cartridges: light, medium, and dark. Procter and Gamble is planning to release the device in late 2019 or 2020.
What the fuckvertisement?!? AI airbrush ad? (Score:1)
" the device scans the skin and precisely applies tiny amounts of make-up " = You fuck right off with that.
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Learn to handle market trends - inkjet printed and laser trimmed brows, eye lashes and nose hairs.
If you can't make a robot cross uncanny valley - cross it yourself.
Re: What the fuckvertisement?!? AI airbrush ad? (Score:1)
I think this is the most useless product I have ever heard of
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It's because you have never heard of the FUFME.
Something like COVFEFE? (Score:1)
Re: Something like COVFEFE? (Score:2)
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Are people not even able to use a search engine these days?
Re: What the fuckvertisement?!? AI airbrush ad? (Score:4, Funny)
I think this is the most useless product I have ever heard of
O rly?
http://theworstthingsforsale.com/
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Whatever the merits of the makeup device it has to be said that the catalogue of dodgy products you linked to was the most amusing thing I have seen for ages. Thanks!
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I think this is the most useless product I have ever heard of
I agree. It does nothing for those of us that didn't look so good even when we were young.
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You could try vanishing cream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
I bet someone thinks its useful (Score:5, Funny)
I think this is the most useless product I have ever heard of
Oh, come on. You know there is at least one guy in the US who is probably already on the phone with them asking if he can get it with an orange skin tone cartridge.
Half Trillion Dollar Market - clearly useless (Score:2)
I think this is the most useless product I have ever heard of
This is a product that could potentially impact or even disrupt a $532B international cosmetics market with an estimated five year CAGR of 7.14% a year [reuters.com] by creating a product that could dramatically reduce the amount of makeup needed and dramatically improve the effectiveness of its application. Clearly useless. :P
Re:What the fuckvertisement?!? AI airbrush ad? (Score:5, Funny)
"AI airbrush ad?"
The ad's motto: "We put the 'AI' in 'airbrush'."...?
ALL three skin colors! What inclusivity! (Score:1)
" The company says it works with all skin colors via three different cartridges: light, medium, and dark. " What color is your skin? Medium. Oh right.
No redneck skintone either (Score:1)
Re: What if you are ugly? (Score:2)
I have something a lot cheaper (Score:3, Funny)
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Better answer, I don't give one fuck about the whole old I look, I care about how old I feel, how my crappy carcase is handling the very uncomfortable ageing process. I'm already old, you come up with ways of making look young without actually feeling younger, as in physiologically feeling not emotional delusions and I will call you a fucking idiot. How well I recover from the knocks and bruises of life, how will my carcase handles my abuse of it, how well my shit works and if all that shit works, well, you
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Ah, but looking younger *can* help you feel younger. ...younger women, younger men... whatever your taste. Or at least that seems to be the central, sometimes unspoken, marketing pillar for most of these kinds of products and surgeries.
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News for Nerds (Score:1)
Now we have stories on Slashdot about how to look younger. Next week are we going to have a story about how to increase our popularity?
Really cool tech if it works (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't mind looking old, I mind being old. The appearance isn't the problem.
Re:Really cool tech if it works (Score:5, Interesting)
This'll be revolutionary for Hollywood makeup artists. Now they can make Data the exact shade of bubblegum pink, consistently.
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Printing registration marks precisely for SFX, printing tattoos for continuity, all sorts of things the movie industry could use.
More to ageing than that (Score:2)
Will it shave my ears, too?
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Question (Score:5, Funny)
But I'd be interested in what men's reaction was the first time they saw their wife or girlfriend without makeup. Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
She does have one friend who's husband has never seen her without. She puts it on in the morning, sleeps in it, then washes her face and goes through it again.
Just curious - women hiding behind excessive makeup to me is the equivalent of a male wearing a braunschweiger in his pants.
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It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets.
Oh, so it's Christmas. The religious aspect of Christmas is pretty much dead. Now it's all about the six months of commercial opportunities leading up to the day - and putting shame on the parents that didn't buy their spoilt brats a new $1,000 iPad to replace the one they just got on their birthday.
Re:Question (Score:5, Insightful)
My wife doesn't wear makeup. At all. She uses lip balm, but that's it.
The creation of this "expectation" that women will always wear makeup in public - it's an astonishing triumph of a vile and misogynistic industry. It's a global multi-billion-dollar business that should be attracting worldwide protests, boycotts and pickets. And yet - women not only accept it, they all but enforce it on each other.
And don't even get me started on cosmetic surgery.
Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
When the real reason for makeup is two different things. The first is that in various species, one or the other sex is more decorated, more beautiful. Sometimes, as with many birds, the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite. Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves. Jewelry is one item, clothing is another. Looking at men's fashions they have changed very little over the last century. Women's fashions are all over the map.
Makeup, which is not good or bad within itself, is another form of decorating. Where it becomes an issue is when women go overboard in order to hide their age. Just like this article. The reason they do this is that the male of the species is inherently attracted to women during their most fertile years. That's just the effects of evolution.
So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
They want to look younger than they are, and that's about it.
I know many men, and the ones I have talked about women's makeup do not like it at all - they consider it dishonest, and some like myself, simply love freckles - covering them up is unforgivable. So either start understanding that not everything wemen do is men's fault, especially when men don't like what they are doing.
Or you can get on over to Jezabel - you'll have agreement there.
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...the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite.
I take that to be your opinion. Generally speaking, human males find human females beautiful/attractive and vice versa. Then, arguably, human male's beauty increases with age. Also, human males have manes which we tend to find see as a sign of beauty in other animals.
I assume you're male. Can it be perhaps that you aren't that busy being pretty the whole day and that hence you don't appreciate your own beauty as much?
IMHO one of the differences between humans and other species is that we are able to g
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...the male is the gaudy and more beautiful sex. In humans, it's the opposite.
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I take that to be your opinion.
Actually, an analysis of Tinder users showed that males tended to gauge women's attractiveness on a bell curve, which would indicate a normal spread. Around 50 percent above and below the average. Women on the other hand, find 80 percent of men to be below average or unnatractive in looks. Here's the source https://medium.com/@worstonlin... [medium.com]
Fascinating stuff, and kind of flies in the face of the modern day dogma that men are shallow. We'll have to overlook the 80 percent below average math paradox.
Generally speaking, human males find human females beautiful/attractive and vice versa. Then, arguably, human male's beauty increases with age.
That i
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I do have an appreciation for feminine beauty, but not an appreciation for the mask-like makeup or especially the weird clown makeup many women hide behind.
The skill required to do that is worthy of respect, even if it's not your own personal attractiveness profile.
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I do have an appreciation for feminine beauty, but not an appreciation for the mask-like makeup or especially the weird clown makeup many women hide behind.
The skill required to do that is worthy of respect, even if it's not your own personal attractiveness profile.
I laugh respectfully?
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Sure, but let's see you do clown makeup. That's not your skill.
By the way, I forgot to put in my last post that I do enjoy the interesting makeup that is fun to do, and probably very enjoyable for women. https://thewondrous.com/face-a... [thewondrous.com] This guy has some pretty cool stuff - and not just women.
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More complicated (Score:2)
Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
Women aren't forced to wear makeup but the certainly are influence and coerced into it by a variety of means. Many of the influences actually have little to do with men directly. Women's magazines are a common example. Women influence other women as much or more than men do on the issue. There is nothing wrong with wearing SOME makeup just like there is nothing wrong with dressing nicely.
Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves.
You think that is somehow independent of the influence of men or society? Sure many (not all) do enjoy it and there
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Cool story bro. Why do you think that women are so weak that some evil patriarchy forces them to wear makeup?
Women aren't forced to wear makeup but the certainly are influence and coerced into it by a variety of means. Many of the influences actually have little to do with men directly. Women's magazines are a common example. Women influence other women as much or more than men do on the issue. There is nothing wrong with wearing SOME makeup just like there is nothing wrong with dressing nicely.
Of course not. Way back in the beginning of this gawd forsaken thread, I noted that my wife wears a little eye shadow and mascara. But she doesn't make a mask for herself.
Women through the ages have enjoyed decorating themselves.
You think that is somehow independent of the influence of men or society? Sure many (not all) do enjoy it and there is nothing wrong with that but let's not pretend that social pressure doesn't play any role here.
Who's pretending? Most of this social pressure is not coming from men however. Other than when funning around, the major purpo
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As a dude I can concur that I am along for the ride. I have not influenced one woman to wear makeup. I have not told anyone they were fat unless they asked.
I personally wash my hands of this nonsense that I'm somehow responsible for people feeling shamed about their body.
I'm in marketing though, so I'm probably guilty on a professional level.
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The real victim in all this is the poor dude who wakes up next to that awesome young for her age GILF he met the night before and her pretty face is stuck to the pillow.
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The real victim in all this is the poor dude who wakes up next to that awesome young for her age GILF he met the night before and her pretty face is stuck to the pillow.
I was watching television the other day, and saw that women now have freaking airbrushes to paint their faces
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So the idea that makeup is something forced on women by the evil patriarchy is both silly and very demeaning to women, casting them as so weak that they can't even make up their minds.
Says the incel who thinks women are just obeying their animal natures:
I don't think you read my other posts. I'm neither incel, nor MGTOW if you planned on going there as well. Been married over 40 years.
Or maybe you don't know what the term incel means.
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The instant you realise that we are not that special and that we ARE just animals, mmm what a day that will be.
Humans are indeed animals. With all the accoutrements that come with that fact. While we are capable of some pretty impressive thoughts, there are certain part of our existence that are based on how we evolved. Our tendencies toward aggression and how we kill each other without a thought. And the size of our "clans' and how we identify the "other". Sexual attractiveness as well. There are always outliers, as well as people who rebel and deny, but what humans find attractive is largely hard-wired.
Which ma
Re:Question (Score:5, Insightful)
Umm? No. Just no.
My wife, and my ex-wife, both would not put on make-up or dress up if we were going out for lunch or hanging around the house. "Going out with the girls" would send them into hours of preening preparation.
Trying to blame make-up on misogyny is idiotic, and truly makes me wonder if you're actually married.
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Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
Someone will hack this thing and use it to, first, apply freckles - as many as you want. The Trill look could be a big thing. Next, they'll use it to apply patterns. Nazca lines. Circuitry. Hell, mix in some metallic powder and they could paint actual circuit traces on their fizzogs (That's a British colloquialism for "face, btw, and probably not what you thought).
I still want to know if it washes off, or if you can use it like a 3D printer to slowly change your facial geometry and avoid the attention of s
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Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
Someone will hack this thing and use it to, first, apply freckles - as many as you want. The Trill look could be a big thing. Next, they'll use it to apply patterns. Nazca lines. Circuitry. Hell, mix in some metallic powder and they could paint actual circuit traces on their fizzogs (That's a British colloquialism for "face, btw, and probably not what you thought).
I still want to know if it washes off, or if you can use it like a 3D printer to slowly change your facial geometry and avoid the attention of security cameras.
In Victorian times, women would give themselves "beauty marks" using silver nitrate. A dab on a swab, and light would darken the silver nitrate. The effect would last several weeks.
But modern women have beaten you to the whacky! Here's some of the weirdest makeup trends that males have supposedly forced on women. Looks like shit to me, although I laugh too. https://blush.media/the-most-r... [blush.media] https://www.chaostrophic.com/t... [chaostrophic.com] http://www.whiskeyriff.com/201... [whiskeyriff.com]
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Today's style is pretty much flat monocolor. many women even hid their freckles (a mortal sin).
Someone will hack this thing and use it to, first, apply freckles - as many as you want. The Trill look could be a big thing. Next, they'll use it to apply patterns. Nazca lines. Circuitry. Hell, mix in some metallic powder and they could paint actual circuit traces on their fizzogs (That's a British colloquialism for "face, btw, and probably not what you thought).
I still want to know if it washes off, or if you can use it like a 3D printer to slowly change your facial geometry and avoid the attention of security cameras.
Be more interesting to mod tech like this to break facial recognition.
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Makeup is a costume (Score:2)
My wife wears a relative minimum of makeup, mostly a little eyeshadow and mascara. Point is, it was never a surprise to see what she looks like in the morning.
Similar here except that my wife wears no makeup at all most of the time. She has little time and no real interest in painting her face for vanity and she's allergic and/or sensitive to a lot of that stuff anyway. I think she's beautiful with or without makeup so she doesn't have to wear it on my account. If I don't find her attractive in her natural state, no amount of makeup is really going to fix that.
But I'd be interested in what men's reaction was the first time they saw their wife or girlfriend without makeup.
If someone is surprised what their lady looks like without makeup then they are involved with a very
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My wife wears a relative minimum of makeup, mostly a little eyeshadow and mascara. Point is, it was never a surprise to see what she looks like in the morning.
Similar here except that my wife wears no makeup at all most of the time. She has little time and no real interest in painting her face for vanity and she's allergic and/or sensitive to a lot of that stuff anyway. I think she's beautiful with or without makeup so she doesn't have to wear it on my account. If I don't find her attractive in her natural state, no amount of makeup is really going to fix that.
Speaking of no makeup - here is Taylor Swift without it: https://i0.wp.com/youmeandtren... [wp.com].
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In his pants -- how will you explain that to customs at the airport?
Just happy to see you TSA agent!"
Side note - some years ago at the local disco, a fellow injured his leg somehow. He was pretty drunk, and they took him to the local hospital as a precaution. When they took his pants off to get a look at his leg, they found he had a kielbasa stuck down there. He became a legend, though not the way he wanted to.
Cancer? What do they have to lose? (Score:1)
If the inkjet like product that is applied to the skin is found to cause cancer (and ultimately does), the product was aimed at older people! If the determination takes longer than 20 years, they may not get sued. Even if it takes less, it will be tied up in litigation for years, and the plaintiffs will all be gone. Either way, there is plenty of profit to be made off of vanity.
P.S. We already know that it has been found by the state of California to cause cancer, because California has found nearly eve
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Because billboards and blimps cause cancer.
No matter how they market it (Score:3)
We guys aren’t the target demographic.
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I dunno. What CPU is this running? Can I reflash it? Anyone got a repo for the "Star Trek alien" firmware? (Not one of the old ones, obviously.)
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Anyone got a repo for the "Star Trek alien" firmware?
I’ve got a general “Star Trek” firmware available as a beta, but you might want to hack at it a bit first before relying on it. Rght now, it keeps trying to color any shirt red.
Why all the negativity? This is quite innovative. (Score:4, Insightful)
Additionally, cosmetics are regularly scrutinized for containing potentially dangerous chemicals, and this product reduces the amount needed significantly.
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Does it wash off, or will it make their heads get progressively bigger over time?
Tangerine (Score:2)
Does it work on orange skin? Asking for a big wet friend.
This should also be popular with morticians (Score:1)
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Did you see Chancy in their American Gothic piece? I think they were beta testers.
Injet Tech? (Score:3)
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Probably more costly than gold :)
(per weight. For even printer ink is more costly than gold, isn't it?)
Those got invented well over 50 years ago. (Score:2)
For once I'm (kinda?) glad my blood pressure meds don't let me ", um, get a hard on? No, die sooner? Fukifino. Oh, question. Die or get laid pretty
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but as I have a dick and failed big time at the game I'm, um, shit I just said I've been a loser all my life.
No shame in that.
Simposons did it! (Score:2)
Does nobody remember Homer's makeup gun? [youtube.com]
The printer's cheap (Score:3)
The printer itself costs only $50 but the inkjet cartridges cost $1,500 each, & contain all 3 shades; light, medium, & dark. If one shade runs out the machine refuses to print anymore until you've replace the whole cartridge. Cartridges are digitally signed & can't be refilled & used again. Would actually be cheaper to hire a professional make-up artist, plus they'd make you look a lot better.
BTW, since IT & therefore /. is predominantly male, does it have a drag-queen mode?
Does it paint your bald spot, too? (Score:2)
Have we become so vain and narcissistic that there's actually a market for a device like this?
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Have we become so vain and narcissistic
Rhetorical question, right?
Obligatory Dilbert (Score:3)
makeup (Score:2)
Procter and Gamble Unveils New Device That.... applies makeup.
*hide* not *remove* (Score:2)
"Procter and Gamble Unveils New Device That Aims To Hide Signs of Ageing"
There, fixed that for yer.
Signs (Score:2)
Why stop at the signs? Why not simply stop the aging all together?
Anti-Aging Chemicals? (Score:2)
Remove signs of aging, hmm? (Score:2)
Cant it give you back the metabolism and energy you had when you were in your 20's or 30's?
Because otherwise, it's just another makeup scam... making people think that just by very superficially *looking* younger, you could somehow supposedly feel any younger than you actually are, or enjoy the kind of life you had when you were younger.
Because that is what would be important in the fight against aging... not purely exterior shit like age spots or what have you.
The REAL signs of aging (Score:2)
If it is merely a bit of robot-applied slap then forget it.
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The only signs of aging that matter are the decline in physical and mental abilities. If P&G have got a device that can restore muscle mass, sexual stamina, memory and .... I've forgotten what else, then I'm in.
If it is merely a bit of robot-applied slap then forget it.
It's hilarious how angry people here seem to be that this isn't some sort of immortality treatment.
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The goal is to convince someone of the opposite that you have sexual stamina, not to actually improve it.
Good idea (Score:2)
I also expect when these things appear on the market, that the cost of the device and/or the filler will be eye watering. And that when self applied by a person, or in natural light looks less convincing than it might on video.
Peopleshop (Score:2)
So this new product will incorporate tools from the photographic version like Spot Healing Brush and global color shifting (use the White Balance eyedropper to get rid of that sallow complexion!) But will the Ex-Wife Removal Tool, or Content-Aware Fill as Photoshop calls it, be included?
Misleading (Score:2)
Beards? (Score:2)
Multipass (Score:2)
Come on, people. This is funny.
The profiter (Score:2)
Can I flip this into reverse and sell 'age up' wipes to teens wanting to buy alcohol?
Does this work on scrotums? (Score:2)
Asking for a friend.
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Nor the prior art from The Arrival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] @2:40 and again @6:35