| You may know that Toshiba has made great achievements in home electronics: high-quality laptops, televisions and home entertainment systems have made the Japanese manufacturing giant a household name all over the world, but the company's recent move may Surprising: Toshiba's new Open Nail project aims to provide custom fake nails in perfect alignment with nail shapes through 3D image recognition and 3D printing.  Here's how it works: Using Toshiba's image recognition software, you read the shape and outline of each nail and then use it to generate data for each user's group of nails. The data is stored in a cloud system and then used for After printing these custom fake nails 3D printers, these printed fake nails were decorated and sent to customers by michi co's manicurists. Yasuko Chigira of Toshiba's Office of Technology Planning said: 'What we're after is perfect nails.' To do this, the software must be able to 'read' the images of the nail very accurately to a tenth of a millimeter, which is why We need such advanced image recognition and processing techniques, "Chigira added. With the backing of Toshiba Startup, the company's in-house launch project 'Open Nail' is the same as the fake nail supplier michi co. Like almost all Toshiba products, the idea is to cater to the broadest possible audience. For this project, This also means men. 'Yes, men will want this concept too,' said Chief Executive Shun Nakazaki. 'There are things that apply to manicure or gel nails and it seems feminine to paint with a small brush.' However Given the typically positive reaction of male markets to electronics and 3D printing, Open Nail representatives are optimistic that sales of false nail men can be a profitable business proposition. "Nakazaki said: 'If you consider the possibility of incorporating IC chips into it, The idea of transforming them into a variety of IoT devices to promote this product to people seems like nothing out of reach. Future applications may include liquid crystal displays on the surface of nails and even the insertion of health monitoring technology into the product itself, in the long run as an IoT platform, with almost endless possibilities. However, in the short term, Open Nails The team is passionate about highlighting the beauty of custom fit nails: 'Think about Cinderella's glass slippers, but touch with your fingers. |
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