A UV seal is developed that can be affixed to the skin and check the ultraviolet level

Cosmetic companyL'Oreal ParisDeveloped a sticker that can be affixed to everywhere on human's skin to check the ultraviolet level ", and the international consumer electronics trade fairCES 2016Published at.

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The seal which can check the ultraviolet level developed by L'Oreal Paris is heart shaped. Although it is a transparent and flexible seal, it contains blue dyes, it changes to blue when exposed to ultraviolet rays, and photographs are taken with a smartphone & uploaded to the application, so that the ultraviolet level that the user is receiving You will be able to check.


L'Oreal will earn 3.7% of revenue in one year, over 1 billion dollars (approx. 120 billion yen)It is devoted to R & D expenses, UV seal also developed by 25 scientists and researchers scattered throughout the world. Although there is already a device to measure the ultraviolet level, L'Oreal Paris is the first to develop a flexible seal type. The effect of the seal lasts for 5 days, it is characterized by sticking it anywhere in the body.

Mr. Guive Balooch, representative of the technology and incubator division of L'Oreal Paris,Flexible ElectronicsIt was a few years ago that I focused on. Balooch said, "L'Oreal has noticed this product because people say L'Oreal's product is" what you put on your body. "" If people can measure skin conditions everywhere, We can create a new measurement method to make products that make it possible. "

However,KWP Comtech researchCarolina Milanesi, who is the chief of the company, said that this technology is "wonderful" while commenting that "photographing and uploading must be troublesome for customers." Currently it does not function as a "sunscreen reminder", "It is better to warn the seal itself when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet rays and it is likely to get sunburned, than to upload it to the app and see the cumulative data." It was.

In addition, UV seals will be distributed free of charge in 16 countries in the summer of 2016.