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Beauty tech lives at the intersection of self-care and self-loathing
https://www.cnet.com/news/beauty-tech-intersection-self-care-self-loathing-ces-2018/
Devices with a focus on beauty made a large, pedicured footprint at this year's CES tech show in Las Vegas. They typically combined a Wi-Fi connection, built-in cameras, machine learning and a dash of augmented reality to analyze various aspects of your appearance -- and make recommendations about what products you need to look better.
TL;DR: Companies want to use technology to judge the hell out of you, make you feel bad and sell you beauty products.