Youth Laboratories, a company dedicated to human aging research, is launching RYNKL, a mobile application aimed to detect and track wrinkles in order to evaluate various anti-wrinkle treatments and anti-aging interventions for Android OS on Google Play Store. The app was fully funded via a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and received broad critical acclaim.
To help develop and popularize the app and
also to create a platform to test multiple approaches to evaluating
human attractiveness, the team launched Beauty.AI, the first online
beauty pageant with an all-robot jury. Some of the algorithms are
developed by Konstantin Kiselev, the team’s deep learning lead, but some
are provided by global modelling agencies and academic artificial
intelligence teams.
Beauty.AI was covered by Cosmopolitan, Yahoo! Beauty, GQ
and many other major news outlets significantly increasing the number
of participants and expanding the training sets for RYNKL.
To receive feedback, develop a team of
beta-testers, fund testing and marketing efforts, the team had decided
to crowdfund the campaign via Kickstarter. In just 25 days into the
campaign, the app was fully-funded and received positive critical
acclaim with some of the most advanced healthcare and beauty clinic
networks enthusiastically supporting the initiative.
“We are witnessing the most exciting time in
the history of humanity, when some technologies previously deemed as far
fetched, are quickly becoming reality and rapidly propagate into
consumers hands. The beauty and the pharmaceutical industries are
clearly lagging when it comes to delivering truly innovative and
disruptive products. RYNKL is one of the first tools we developed to
help the beauty industry empower and engage the customer in product
development and personalization. My goal is to develop a broad ecosystem
for studying aging from multiple perspectives and developing effective
interventions that can slow down or repair the age-associated processes.
RYNKL will play an important role in this ecosystem and will allow us
to validate some of the predictions made using human gene expression
data”, said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Chief Science Officer of Youth
Laboratories and CEO of Baltimore-based Insilico Medicine, Inc.
One of the leading European health and beauty
clinic networks, Klinikk Oslo in Norway, dedicated to extending
productive longevity, has supported the development of the app and will
be launching series of applications based on RYNKL and Beauty.AI
platforms.
"Beauty and healthcare should be personalized
and effective. Customers have the right to demand more effective
anti-aging treatments and we want to lead the revolution in personalized
care. Many of our customers don't have the time to wait and we monitor
and support cutting-edge research in aging and longevity starting from
simple mobile apps to research-intensive interventions like preventative
anti-aging approach, SENS", said Olav Espeland, CEO of Klinikk Oslo.
The beta version of RYNKL is available in Google Play,
and it will also appear in AppStore in February, 2016. At the moment
Youth Laboratories is also developing a set of user-friendly mobile
applications to track pimples, skin pigmentations, allergy reactions and
other facial imperfections.
“My personal life’s goal is to combat aging
and develop effective interventions to extend healthy productive
longevity and prevent age-related diseases. But most people consider
aging as a natural process and believe that it can not be suspended. But
they do care about their looks and whether the money they spend on
expensive cosmetics produce noticeable results. RYNKL will help with
these tasks and in time turn into a very useful assistant dedicated to
preserving your face and your health”, said Polina Mamoshina, advisor
to Youth Laboratories and a skin aging and photo aging researcher at
Insilico Medicine, Inc.
“Machine learning, image and face recognition
technologies are changing many aspects of our daily lives. We decided to
utilize these technologies for personalized healthcare and anti-aging
treatments. Many of our colleagues inspired by the book “Ageless
Generation” which presents aging as the most pressing economic challenge
and the most altruistic cause, are relentlessly developing new
approaches for using mobile devices and wearable technology to advance
research in aging. Our first app, RYNKL, helps track wrinkles and tests
efficiency of various interventions including cosmetic products, skin
care procedures, diets and invasive interventions. This app is already
being tested by the the most innovative beauty practitioners, cosmetics
companies and influential beauty bloggers”, said Alexey Shevtsov, CEO of
Youth Laboratories.
About Youth Laboratories
Youth Laboratories is a team of computer and data scientists, biologists, biogerontologists and business people on a quest to develop novel biomarkers and anti-aging interventions. Earlier Youth Laboratories helped to launch the first beauty contest to be judged by artificial intelligence ‒ http://www.Beauty.AI .
About Klinikk Oslo
Klinikk Oslo is a famous Norwegian network of cosmetic clinics with customers from all over Europe, who are happy to travel quite far to be treated by its most competent experts. Klinikk Oslo offers a wide range of cosmetic procedures performed by the most skilled and experienced medical practitioners in the industry: dermatologists, surgeons, laser specialists and cardiologists. The clinic is a proven leader in implementing innovative technologies into daily healthcare practice.
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