Skin care begins and ends with sun protection. That’s how it should be. But are we actually slathering on our SPF every single day" If we had to answer truthfully, it’d be a resounding “well, sometimes.” Thankfully, technology has caught up with our bad habits in the form of L’Oreal’s newest innovation.
This past weekend at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, it unveiled La Roche-Posay‘s UV Sense, the first battery-free wearable electronic UV sensor that promises to unveil just how much UV exposure, pollution and other environmental factors are truly affecting your skin. How does it do that, exactly" According to Allure, it’s able to collect information by using “near-field communication,” the same system that powers hotel key cards and car toll tags. MORE: The Newbie Beauty Finds We’re Already Loving in 2018
Once it’s near your phone, an internal antenna takes all of the information it collected and transfers to an accompanying app, where you can read all of the sensor’s findings. As for how the actual findings are captured, Guive Balooch, who lead the device’s conception within L?Oréal’s Technology Incubator, told Allure that the “central idea is UV monitoring.”
“You’ll be able to customize your dashboard to show pollution, humidity, and temperature, too,” he said. “Say you’re going running. You can start a session on the app, and...