Beauty tech has taken off over the past few years, with AI now able to help choose which lipstick best suits your complexion, and hairdryers featuring intelligent temperature controls. Now, L'Oréal has unveiled a new product that uses augmented reality (AR) to draw on your perfect eyebrows - making microblading, threading and waxing a thing of the past. At the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, the beauty giant unveiled its Brow Magic device. Developed in a partnership with Prinker, a company which specialises in printed, non-permanent tattoos, the technology scans the user's face and makes recommendations on the best ways to shape your brows. L'Oréal Brow Magic uses AR technology to scan your brow, recommending the perfect shape and thickness, before using a 2,400 tiny nozzles and printing technology to draw your brows.

L'Oréal has returned to CES to unveil two makeup devices. HAPTA is a handheld, motorized applicator that the company created for people with limited hand and arm mobility. Support for more makeup applications is in the works. HAPTA is based on tech from Alphabet-owned Verily that levels utensils and keeps them stable to help people with limited hand and arm mobility eat independently. The system has smart motion controls and customizable attachments to enable precise application with the help of 360 degrees of rotation and 180 degrees of flexion, L'Oréal says.

The term "artificial intelligence" has generated pages of dystopian copy surrounding the displacement of jobs and the dehumanization of the workplace, but in farm fields, AI and machine learning are proving to be an efficient ally of growers for combating weeds and keeping expenses in check. In the 1980s, researchers were elated when they developed sprayers capable of on-the-go determination between bare ground and growing plants -- a breakthrough that paved the way for what is now widely known as GreenSeeker technology. Crude sensors that differentiated the color of soil vs. the color of green plant material led to precision spectral radiance technology that provides the backbone of today's remote sensing used in precise fertilizer placement. As digital memory became increasingly miniaturized, it was possible to photograph and catalog various weeds in computer files used by applicators to further differentiate weeds from growing crops as they travel across fields -- the entry of AI into agriculture, a debut that will forever change farm practices. John Deere's first See & Spray system introduced in 2021 allowed growers to reduce their non-residual pre-emergence herbicide use by more than 75% by targeting and spraying only weeds on fallow ground.

Venus Bliss is cleared by the FDA and licensed by Health Canada for non-invasive lipolysis of the abdomen and flanks in individuals with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or less, with the diode laser applicators. The (MP)2 applicator is cleared by the FDA for temporary reduction in the appearance of cellulite, and licensed by Health Canada for temporary increase of skin tightening, temporary circumferential reduction, and temporary cellulite reduction. Venus Bliss has CE Mark as a non-invasive medical aesthetic device enabling a comprehensive approach leading to body contouring, addressing fat reduction, skin tightening, circumference reduction, and cellulite reduction. Venus Versa is cleared by the FDA, licensed by Health Canada, and has CE Mark as a multi-application device intended to be used in aesthetic and cosmetic procedures. The SR515 and SR580 applicators are cleared by the FDA, licensed by Health Canada, and have CE Mark for the treatment of benign pigmented epidermal and cutaneous lesions and treatment of benign cutaneous vascular lesions.

The robot revolution may not have replaced us yet, but automation is undoubtedly creeping its way into many careers. Hundreds of jobs now require some level of robotics skills, a new analysis from career website Zippia found. Nearly 1,000 job titles now have robotics-related requirements, the study found, which it defined as degree of autonomy, a set of intended tasks, and ability to function without human intervention. Of 985 such jobs it found in its database, 492 job titles were listed multiple times in fields that had robotics-related requirements. The manufacturing industry has already been hit by automation, which has impacted employment in the U.S. auto industry.