Procter & Gamble surprised us by showing up at CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, for the first time in the company’s 182-year history. And it showed off some cool products, like Opté, which removes spots on your skin, at least temporarily.
The product is part of P&G’s effort to bring technology to ordinary products and lead market disruption. Doing so is, of course, a better strategy than allowing yourself to be disrupted. I like how the company makes technology fade into the woodwork — although Opté really is a brand-new product category.
After 10 years of development and over 40 patents, P&G Ventures, a startup studio within P&G, has finally introduced the product, which combines proprietary algorithms and printing technology with skincare to scan, detect, and correct imperfections. The company touts its precision application as delivering a visibly flawless skin tone. When you move the blue light device over your face, it zeroes in on blemishes and treats those areas only, not the skin that surrounds it. A tiny inkjet printer deposits picoliter-size drops of the treatment on your skin.
I got to use this tech in a demo at the Pepcom party last night, and you can see that it erased some big spots on my skin, without changing my overall skin tone at all.
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Sadly, when you wash the treatment off the spots come back. Over time, though, they may not look as bad. Funai Electric provided the inkjet microfluidics technology used in the Opté.
