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Not sure if the nail painting itself is what women pay for when they go to a nail salon. Carefully scraping old nail polish, treating skin around the nail and

Not sure if the nail painting itself is what women pay for when they go to a nail salon. Carefully scraping old nail polish, treating skin around the nail and nail shape are probably most labor-intensive tasks that many women want to offload to a paid specialist. Painting already prepared nail is the easy part, AFAIK. On a scale from Tesla Autopilot (A) to Juicero (J) I would give it G.

vmception 5y ago
The title doesn’t say anything about replacing the nail salon experience or for women It says a robot that paints nails Aside from women, alot of men don’t go to nail salons either but paint their nails or would be open to it There is a big enough audience
eric__cartman 5y ago
It's pretty stupid. Also nail printers (or whatever they are called) have already existed for a while now. You can buy one in Amazon (it's still a cool $1000 for whatever it does) so this isn't a new concept. Also this robot probably can't give you recommendations or have a conversation with you as a human would do.
- toper-centage 5y ago
  Adding a microphone, a GTP3 chatbot and a speaker also seems like a quite trivial addition that would enable chit chatting.
  - anyfoo 5y ago
    I am genuinely curious if this is meant to be satire, or if you are actually serious. Poe’s Law and all.
    - flemhans 5y ago
      As a child I was writing a letter for my grandmother and naturally used the Macintosh LC III we had just got. My mother was against using the computer as a handwritten letter would be more personal. So I found a place in the print dialog where you could add different watermarks and chose the one saying "PERSONAL".
  - qualudeheart 5y ago
    No one would want that. Man is a social animal- especially when at nail salon.
kbenson 5y ago
> On a scale from Tesla Autopilot (A) to Juicero (J) I would give it G. It honestly took me a bit to figure out which end of that scale was supposed to be which. I had to remember what Juicero was first, because IMO Tesla Autopilot is a weird thing to use for the high end of the scale given all the problems it has.
- xnx 5y ago
  Truly. Though stupid, Juicero never killed anyone.
  - brianwawok 5y ago
    Juicero Also never saved anyone by bringing a car to a gentle stop after the driver fell asleep.
    - not_math 5y ago
      It's not okay to over hype a product and calling an autopilot when it's really just a glorified automatic break system and steering system. This caused people to die, and similar story doesn't seem to happen with other car brand with similar feature in their car (automatic breaking and automatic stearing in traffic).
      - atatatat 5y ago
        > It's not okay to over-hype a product and call it an autopilot, when it's really just a glorified automatic brake and steering system. > This caused people to die; similar stories don't seem to happen with other car brands with similar features (automatic braking, and automatic steering in traffic).
        kbenson 5y ago
        The difference being called out is not one of capability, but of perception. People don't go to sleep on purpose behind something like "enhanced cruise control", but apparently if you call it autopilot then some people feel fine doing just that (or riding in the back seat, for example).
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moneytide1 5y ago
> Not sure if the nail painting itself is what women pay for when they go to a nail salon. I thought that any type of salon was meant as a congregation point for gossip vectors to intersect and the manicurist was more of a surrogate therapist whose services must be conducted physically closer (opportunity for optional hushed tone) because the client's hand must be held thus setting the conditions for more personal conversation (mostly attentive listening) and accountability in a public location? Grooming-as-a-service is the commercialized intimate connection made as a reprieve from the cold robotic touch felt everywhere else in "civilized" society. Afterwards, the "prepared" cuticles of a person's readily visible hand in any social situation is supposed to be an indicator (trophy? Cash to spare on something without surface level utility) that this social grooming session has occurred (and consequential fresh gossip fodder behind a tongue poised and rearing). Simultaneous (or primary) announcement that "these hands do not labor" (if she breaks one of these "expensive" nails, she can then draw attention to her role in a situation). This is similar to ancient Chinese foot binding that made it "beautiful" to be immobile and thus vulnerable - social status announcement that a wife with sufficiently warped feet cannot go anywhere on her own without service labor. The offensive odor of nail polish solvent fumes is just as "necessary" a pain as the restriction of a corset, wrapped foot, elongated neck, or "temporary" hormonal disruption of birth control. Perhaps the robot is meant to liberate the manicurist from an entire shift of toxic air.

vmception 5y ago

The title doesn’t say anything about replacing the nail salon experience or for women It says a robot that paints nails Aside from women, alot of men don’t go to nail salons either but paint their nails or would be open to it There is a big enough audience

eric__cartman 5y ago

It's pretty stupid. Also nail printers (or whatever they are called) have already existed for a while now. You can buy one in Amazon (it's still a cool $1000 for whatever it does) so this isn't a new concept. Also this robot probably can't give you recommendations or have a conversation with you as a human would do.

toper-centage 5y ago
Adding a microphone, a GTP3 chatbot and a speaker also seems like a quite trivial addition that would enable chit chatting.
- anyfoo 5y ago
  I am genuinely curious if this is meant to be satire, or if you are actually serious. Poe’s Law and all.
  - flemhans 5y ago
    As a child I was writing a letter for my grandmother and naturally used the Macintosh LC III we had just got. My mother was against using the computer as a handwritten letter would be more personal. So I found a place in the print dialog where you could add different watermarks and chose the one saying "PERSONAL".
- qualudeheart 5y ago
  No one would want that. Man is a social animal- especially when at nail salon.

kbenson 5y ago

> On a scale from Tesla Autopilot (A) to Juicero (J) I would give it G. It honestly took me a bit to figure out which end of that scale was supposed to be which. I had to remember what Juicero was first, because IMO Tesla Autopilot is a weird thing to use for the high end of the scale given all the problems it has.

xnx 5y ago
Truly. Though stupid, Juicero never killed anyone.
- brianwawok 5y ago
  Juicero Also never saved anyone by bringing a car to a gentle stop after the driver fell asleep.
  - not_math 5y ago
    It's not okay to over hype a product and calling an autopilot when it's really just a glorified automatic break system and steering system. This caused people to die, and similar story doesn't seem to happen with other car brand with similar feature in their car (automatic breaking and automatic stearing in traffic).
    - atatatat 5y ago
      > It's not okay to over-hype a product and call it an autopilot, when it's really just a glorified automatic brake and steering system. > This caused people to die; similar stories don't seem to happen with other car brands with similar features (automatic braking, and automatic steering in traffic).
      - kbenson 5y ago
        The difference being called out is not one of capability, but of perception. People don't go to sleep on purpose behind something like "enhanced cruise control", but apparently if you call it autopilot then some people feel fine doing just that (or riding in the back seat, for example).

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moneytide1 5y ago

> Not sure if the nail painting itself is what women pay for when they go to a nail salon. I thought that any type of salon was meant as a congregation point for gossip vectors to intersect and the manicurist was more of a surrogate therapist whose services must be conducted physically closer (opportunity for optional hushed tone) because the client's hand must be held thus setting the conditions for more personal conversation (mostly attentive listening) and accountability in a public location? Grooming-as-a-service is the commercialized intimate connection made as a reprieve from the cold robotic touch felt everywhere else in "civilized" society. Afterwards, the "prepared" cuticles of a person's readily visible hand in any social situation is supposed to be an indicator (trophy? Cash to spare on something without surface level utility) that this social grooming session has occurred (and consequential fresh gossip fodder behind a tongue poised and rearing). Simultaneous (or primary) announcement that "these hands do not labor" (if she breaks one of these "expensive" nails, she can then draw attention to her role in a situation). This is similar to ancient Chinese foot binding that made it "beautiful" to be immobile and thus vulnerable - social status announcement that a wife with sufficiently warped feet cannot go anywhere on her own without service labor. The offensive odor of nail polish solvent fumes is just as "necessary" a pain as the restriction of a corset, wrapped foot, elongated neck, or "temporary" hormonal disruption of birth control. Perhaps the robot is meant to liberate the manicurist from an entire shift of toxic air.