127 - What I'm Reading: Week of January 12th
CES launches, an infrared hairdryer, fermented haircare, at-home cervical screenings, urinalysis in-home, why pee is yellow, hardware for Parkinson's patients, MITs top 10 tech breakthroughs, & more.
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⭐️ = What excites me most this week.
🤖 = CES 2024.
🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS
The Apple Vision Pro is set to launch in February - and has a prescription lens function for those who need it.
⭐️ 🤖 For a full rundown of launches at CES including cute at-home robot assistants, clear TVs, electric cars, AI pocket assistants, drones, homecare, pet-care and more check out these resources: The Verge, engagdet, TechCrunch, & Wired.
Just for fun:
Miller Lite is dropping its Beer Mint’s today…
In case you were wondering how powerful your passport is…
🧴 Skin / Personal Care:
🇰🇷 Frankly - a Korean skincare brand focusing on easy to use products made by cosmetic chemists [Instagram].
🇻🇳 Homnay Beauty - Vietnamese vegan skincare [Instagram].
⭐️ According to WGSN - hormonal skincare is the next big beauty trend for 2024, this has been a long time coming [Fashion United].
NYT profiles Thrive Causmetics.
⭐️ 🐌 In case you were interested National Geographic covers snail mucus in skin care and its efficacy. I am a fan…
👩🦱 Haircare:
⭐️ The Rootist - Founded by the David Chung, founder of Farmacy, offers concentrated shampoos & conditioners with fermented ingredients to help ‘balance the scalp & strengthen roots & scalp [Instagram].
🤖 L’Oreal debuted the AirLight Pro - a haircare tool challenging Dyson - which is expected to retail for slightly less than the supersonic at $400 and will be sold through L’Oreal professional hair channels. The hairdryer uses infrared light (developed by Zuvi) along with a powerful motor to mimic the sun & wind, claiming to reduce the overall heat used to dry hair[The Verge].
💊 Supplements:
⭐️ 🐕 Arterra Pet - a pet supplement startup focusing on longevity [Instagram].
Rael launches supplement, rounding out its holistic cycle support offerings. Launching two capsules and a powder. The supplements include cramp & bloat relief, hormone balance, and a vaginal health probiotic [Instagram].
Pretty Tasty, spotted by Snaxshot, a new collagen tea (similar to Karlie Kloss’ SkinTe from 2019) [Instagram].
Greenlight - lemonades with added wellness benefits [Instagram].
👩🔬 Femtech:
Vox: The Supreme Court’s new, nightmare abortion cases, explained. The Court blocked a lower court order enforcing a federal law that protects patients who require medically necessary abortions.
⭐️ 🤖 Vivoo.io debuted an at-home UTI diagnostic [TechCrunch].
⭐️ Teal Health - the startup bringing cervical cancer screenings in home announced it has kicked off a nationwide clinical study.
🇮🇱 Annabella, an Israeli breast pump, raised $8.5M to launch in the U.S., it is the only breast pump to simulate a baby’s tongue - maximizing efficiency and comfort.
⭐️ Qvin™ Introduces Q-Pad™ — Transforming women's health with FDA-cleared lab testing using menstrual blood.
🛍 Retail: DTC, Brick + Mortar, Social Commerce, and more...
CNN: Americans spent a record $222 billion shopping online this holiday season.
Dao Insights: TikTok aims to grow e-commerce business tenfold in 2024.
Beauty Independent: Former Onda Beauty president reopens luxury retailer Sommetbeauty in New York City.
eMarketer: Dollar General, off-price retailers continue breakneck expansion pace into 2024.
🩺 Digital Health: Wearables, Smart Devices, and more...
⭐️ 🤖 Engadget covers the urinalysis companies showing at CES, there is a lot to learn from pee and there are a number of startups hoping to lead the way.
🤖 BMind, by Baracoda, a mirror capable of detecting mental wellness, stress, anxiety, and mood - and offer exercises to help manage mood.
🤖 Withings unveiled Beam-O an at home ‘augmented televisit device’ using an equipped withan electrocardiogram, oximeter, digital stethoscope, and a body thermometer capable of locating the temporal artery.
🤖 🚶 Evolve’s MVMT ankle monitor analyzes your gait to minimize joint impact [Evolve].
⭐️ 🤖 GyroGlove - offers a hand-stabilizing solution for those with Parkinson’s [Engadget].
🤖 Amazfit unveiled their answer to the popular Oura ring, the Amazfit Helio Ring which will track activity and sleep.
Knowable Magazine: The growing link between microbes, mood and mental health.
Fortune: What’s that rash? This app uses AI to diagnose your symptoms.
TechCrunch: Harvard’s robotic exoskeleton can improve walking, decrease falls in people with Parkinson’s.
The Hill: ChatGPT incorrectly diagnosed more than 8 in 10 pediatric case studies, research finds - are we that suprised?
⭐️ Axios: Enter smellphone — Your next phone may double as an air quality monitor.
Qunata Magazine: Cells across the body talk to each other about aging.
Fast Company: Moderna’s vaccine helped fight COVID. Here’s what’s coming in its next wave of mRNA drug — think vaccines for flu, melanoma, RSV and more…
🗣 Social Media: News about TikTok, Meta, BeReal, Snapchat, X...
The Atlantic - Nobody knows what’s happening online anymore - a look at how AI is shaping the internet and where social media is headed.
The New Yorker: What we lost when Twitter became X. As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.
Diem - a social search engine to reduce gender bias - focused on woman and non-binary individuals, creating a safe space for discussion with non-gender-biased responses [TechCrunch].
💸 M&A, IPOs, SPACs, Bankruptcies, Closings...
🚿 L’Oreal acquired Gjosa, a Swiss based water sustainability startup. Gjosa makes water efficient showerheads and had previously partnered with L’Oreal on a water saving showerhead for salons.
🔬RESEARCH
We now know why urine is yellow - it comes down to an enzyme called bilirubin reductase (BilR), which could help researchers better understand jaundice & IBS [Nature Microbiology].
Risk of Alopecia Areata after COVID-19 [JAMA Network].
Fingerprints are not as unique to each person as we thought [Columbia Engineering].
🧐 REPORTS
⭐️ MIT Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024.
⭐️ Free the Birds: 2024 Trend Forecasting - Sensory, Longevity, Surrealism, & Joy.
⭐️ McKinsey: The impact of generative AI on Black communities.
McKinsey: What to expect in US healthcare in 2024 and beyond.
💡 Enjoy,
-Anne