Listicle: 10 Gadgets We Can’t Wait To Get Our Hands On This Year

Brow Magic:

L’Oreal’s Brow Magic has a face-scanning app that offers a range of eyebrow shapes and essentially prints a non-permanent eyebrow tattoo on your face in one smooth swipe. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

Goodbye micro-browsing. Ta ta riding. L’Oreal’s Brow Magic has a face-scanning app that offers a range of eyebrow shapes and essentially prints a non-permanent eyebrow tattoo on your face in one smooth swipe. Imagine when they develop one for lipstick, blush and eyeshadow. This gadget is coming globally in the second half of 2023.

One-inch camera sensors:

A one-inch sensor captures more light, resulting in better image quality. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

Although a handful of smartphones, such as the Xiaomi 13 Pro and the Oppo Find X6 Pro, already have one-inch sensors in their cameras, they are becoming more mainstream. Sensors in most smartphones are about 1/2.55 inch or 1/2.3 inch in diameter. A one-inch sensor captures more light, resulting in better image quality. “Phones are getting closer to professional level cameras,” notes Shlok Srivastava, aka @techburner.

Project Starline:

Google’s Project Starline, uses light field technology for an almost 3D rendering of a video call. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

To make Zoom calls better (or worse), Google’s Project Starline uses light field technology for an almost 3D rendering of a video call. Users can feel that they are sitting around the same table. Project Starline currently requires a booth to sit in, a 65-inch screen, depth sensors, cameras and lights. So it will take some time to become mainstream.

Nosh:

Choose what you want to eat, load your ingredients and tell Nosh to cook. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

Do you remember The Jetsons? And how would their food, fully cooked, show up at the table? Some fun heads in Bengaluru have developed a cooking robot called Nosh. (No, not a robot that cooks. It’s Irona from Richie Rich). Choose what you want to eat, load your ingredients and tell it to cook. It is currently available for pre-order.

Smart collars:

France-based Invoxia has created smart dog collars that monitor health, warn of potential concerns and record how much the animal has spent walking, resting and eating. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

Who says fitness trackers are only for humans? France-based Invoxia has created smart dog collars that monitor health, warn of potential concerns (such as if they itch/scratch too much and a rash is imminent), and record how much the animal has spent walking, resting and eat. There is Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. US sales begin in a few months, with a global rollout soon, we hope.

Twitter 2.0:

Meta’s competitor to Twitter, a text-based app that doesn’t yet have an official name, is reportedly close to completion. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

Meta’s competitor to Twitter, a text-based app that doesn’t yet have an official name, is reportedly close to completion. Use your Instagram ID and password to log in and post up to 500 characters. Reports say it will be released sometime in late June. Now, if we can just keep the bots away.

Reality Pro:

The Apple Reality Pro is rumored to have an outward-facing display. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

Apple may unveil its AR/VR headset next month. The Apple Reality Pro is rumored to have an outward-facing display. This means that while wearing the headset, your eye movements and facial expressions will be on display for anyone to see. How much will it cost? At least an arm and a leg.

Air Street:

The Dyson Airstrait can blow dry and straighten wet hair without excessive heat damage. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}}

The Dyson Airstrait, as with other Dyson offerings, promises a smoother job for a lot more money. It can blow dry and straighten wet hair without excessive heat damage because it also controls the temperature. It is only available in the US and Canada, but will soon be launched worldwide.

Eva:

Indian startup BlueSemi has opened reservations for EYVA, a tiny device that measures blood glucose, blood pressure, heart rate, EKG, oxygen level and average glucose levels in seconds just by placing your thumbs on the device.

Medical tests are annoying and painful, as many require a finger prick each time. Indian startup BlueSemi has opened bookings (for the third time) for EYVA, a tiny device that measures blood glucose, blood pressure, heart rate, EKG, oxygen level and average glucose levels in seconds just by placing your thumbs on the device.

Art Cool AC:

LG’s ArtCool AC comes with a large digital photo display on the front.

LG unveiled its ArtCool AC at the beginning of this year, hoping to solve the problem of an AC that looks like an AC. It comes with a large digital photo display on the front, and the ThinQ app allows you to control the display from presets or customers’ own photos.

From HT Brunch, 27 May 2023

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