Pop quiz: what is your body’s largest and fastest-growing organ? It’s your skin, dummy! Apart from keeping your blood and guts from leaking out, skin regulates your body temperature and protects you from a variety of external hazards. Long story short, your skin is pretty darn important.
As we enter the age of wearable tech, fitness and health-related gadgets that can monitor heartbeat and track your workouts abound. Fitbit and Apple Watch are great for giving users a glimpse of their overall health, but despite physically touching it to get a reading, none of these wearables are monitoring your skin.
In beauty-obsessed South Korea, one startup hopes to fix that – all while capitalizing on both the burgeoning worldwide internet-of-things (IoT) movement and the booming domestic skincare sector. WAY has devised a portable gadget that can monitor a user’s skin condition and surroundings to give them an instant snapshot of their largest organ’s health and tips for how to improve it.
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