Evaluate anti-aging skin treatments? There’s an app for that

RYNKL

A company called Youth Laboratories is launching RYNKL, a mobile app that aims to detect and track wrinkles in order to evaluate various anti-aging interventions. Said application was fully funded via a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter and received broad critical acclaim. And it has its “cloud component” called Beauty.AI that is touted as the “first online beauty pageant with an all-robot jury.”

Relying on proprietary algorithms, the service allows users to evaluate anti-aging treatments to get a better service, with new features coming in the future.

“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,” Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD — Chief Science Officer of Youth Laboratories and CEO of Baltimore-based Insilico Medicine, Inc — said in a statement. “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.”

The company got support from Norway-based health and beauty clinic network Klinikk Oslo, which will be launching series of applications based on RYNKL and Beauty.AI platforms. Also, it was covered by such media outlets as Cosmopolitan, Yahoo! Beauty and GQ.

The beta version of RYNKL is available for Android, with iOS app coming next month. Also coming in the future are a set of apps to track pimples, skin pigmentations, allergy reactions and other facial imperfections.