Avon uses camera phone to analzye customers skin

The cosmetic industry has wised up to camera phones to sell beauty products, according to this story in i4u, reporting on Avon Cosmetics Japan having their sales people analyze the skin of customers using picture phones.

"Start-up WisdomTex Inc. provides the service that lets Avon sales people take a camera phone to the customers face and send a photo of the skin to WisdomTex analytics service.

The Service suggests suitable cosmetics from the Avon product line to the sales person on the phone display. This is a great idea, this way Avon does not need to train the sales people in understanding skin conditions and therefore saving them a bundle".

For more exaples on how business are using cameraphones, cf How people are using camera phones.

emily | 10:53 AM | Business Applications |
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