Are We Saving a Trip to the Doctors’ Office or Wasting That Money on Something Useless?

The New Era of Technology

It has been established that smartphones of this new era of superb technological advancement has brought much change in our lives, although it could be argued if it is for the better or worse, as we have ultimately come to center our lives on the device we hold in our hands. It is a matter of concern to see how “smart” these devices will actually get, and to see what else they will provide for us in terms of making our lives “easier” to live. One such focus of the technological realm has been around consumer gadgets that can help us deal with health related concerns. Through the new advancements with iPhone’s “Health” app and Samsung’s “S health” app technology has come to the point where it is counting every step we take to the calories that we burn. As frightening as it might sound, I would like to know where all this will come to an end, or will it ever?

The OKU Device

At the Consumer Electronic Show just a week ago, a new device in the name of OKU was introduced to being the first iPhone connectable device to measure the wellness of the skin and illuminate the essential care that you should show for it in it’s current condition. As it’s inventors call it a skin coach, it comes to utilize visible light that penetrates through the skin as it analyzes how to take care of it through an app that you have to download. As it is expected to be in market the spring of this year, it has a selling price of 299 dollars.

Is it Worth Buying?

 I believe that this new technology of OKU will be advertised in such a way to be popular in the market and with the amount of praise brought upon Apple products it has the potential of having many buyers. In its stance of whether it will be useful, I do not think so personally. I believe individuals will doubt whether to trust the data that it provides. I have an iPhone with the health app and personally I find no use to it whatsoever, I have tried to test its accuracy with how many steps I took and how many flights of stairs I climbed up, I have come to see that it is not very accurate in its calculation. Although the ideology and advancement of such technology is impressive in its sense I believe it is too pricy to buy, and I personally would not pay that much for a device that I do not trust. It might be a big sale among women due to the extreme care they show for how they look, and as I have looked at many of the advertisements for OKU a beautiful woman advertises them all. Therefore it might look logical to own if you do not care for such a high price and are ok with trusting such devices. Although it saves you a trip to the dermatologist, I believe the device will be a gimmick and be lost in the plethora of devices that are being invented and thrown out to us as consumers. As consumers we are caught up in this technological realm, we essentially come to forget our own humanity, and as we computerize even the most vital aspect of ourselves such as our health we believe it as the right way to be.