The beauty industry is a billion-dollar beast – this is nothing new – but amongst the most recently released, longest-lasting liquid lipsticks, mascara formulas, and groundbreaking contouring palettes, there's a plethora of tech that's pouring out of the pores of the beauty industry.

Whether you were at CES and had the chance to see some of the tech just as it's budding in the makeup universe or visited your local Sephora lately to try out the Color IQ from Pantone, there's a lot of room for gadgets and gizmos alongside your brushes and Beauty Blenders this year.

Here are some of the best pieces of beauty tech that are coming in 2017 for beauty lovers and glam gurus alike!

• Nurugo Derma
• Withings Hair Coach
• O'2 Nails
• iDerma Facial Beautification System
• Dyson Supersonic
• Moist Sense II Hydrometer

Nurugo Derma

If you're someone who's super obsessed with monitoring your pore size, moisture levels, dryness, and the overall quality of your skin, then take a peek at the skincare game-changing Nurugo Derma.

The Nurugo itself is just a teeny-tiny UV camera that attaches directly to your phone, and from there, all you have to do is hold up the device to your face and start scanning. In a couple of seconds, a full report will appear on your phone screen, giving you a breakdown of your skin's status and quality.

Right now, all the Nurugo can do is scan your skin and tell you what's working and what doesn't, but in the future, the device will be able to recommend specific moisturizers, oils, and toners based on your skin-type and give it the help it really needs!

See at Nurugo

Withings Hair Coach

While some may argue that a smart hairbrush is a silly waste of money, the Withings Hair Coach has a few strong points as to why it's such an awesome beauty product (and subsequently why it won a CES innovation award this year!).

Designed through a collaboration between Kérastase and L'Oréal, the Withings Hair Coach allows users to get a full hair diagnosis by simply brushing through their luscious locks.

In fact, the Withings gives back a hair health analysis, straight to your phone, that measures dryness, damage, breakage, and tangling, while recommending a specialized routine and products for your hair style. You are even able to track your hair's health over time, meaning that if you dye your hair or bleach it, you can see how your hair's quality is affected by outside products.

The downside of this hairbrush? It's not out until fall of 2017, and it's like $200.

See at Withings

O'2 Nails

Imagine a world without nail polish: No more messing up your wet nails by accidentally running your fingers through your hair; no more having to almost pee your pants because you can't go to the bathroom because your nails are still drying; and no more tedious painting and struggles with nail art.

Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, right?

Well with O'2 Nails, all you need is your iPhone, the portable O'2 Nails box, a high-quality picture, and a lot of creativity!

O'2 Nails claims that each cartridge of ink can paint and print up to 800 nails, but that depends on the intricacy of the design and the size of the nail.

The printer itself is set to sell around $780, but it's unfortunately not available for online order yet, so your dreams of having the Sistine Chapel on your middle fingers are just that — dreams (for now).

iDerma Facial Beautification System

If you've ever gotten a facial or looked into getting a facial from a professional spa, you'll know how insanely pricey they can be. Being able to give yourself a spa-quality facial at home is ideal, but unless you have deep enough pockets to pick up buckets and buckets of GlamGlow from Sephora every month, it's hard to keep on top of your facial routine.

That's why I was so pumped to see iDerma unveil its Facial Beautification System, which is designed to give users all the benefits of a high-priced photofacial at home!

The system – which combines over 140 red and infrared LED light therapy lights – works by covering the entire face & targeting troubled areas on the skin to reverse and improve the visible signs of aging by stimulating deeper cell regeneration. The goal? To leave skin refreshed, clear, and feeling tight and toned like a facial at a spa.

While it's important to note that the iDerma Facial Beautification System is still an Indiegogo campaign (that's surpassed its goal already), it's worth it to mention that it's been spoken about highly by fashion mags like GQ, Vogue, and Allure, making it a beauty product to keep your eye on in 2017.

See at Indiegogo

Dyson Supersonic

If there's one company that knows how to make truly beautiful, futuristic, insanely high-quality products, it's Dyson – but you don't typically think about the brand when it comes to beauty. Well, at least not until the Dyson Supersonic was unveiled — AKA the most modern and functional hairdryer to ever grace the market!

The Dyson Supersonic actually shouldn't even be qualified as a hair dryer. It was completely redesigned — the motor is one quarter the size of a standard hair dryer motor, and the weight has been redistributed in the handle for more comfortable blow-drying and styling.

The Supersonic took over 4 years and 103 engineers to develop, and in the process of testing what type of airflow and temperature adjustments work best with human hair, the company actually created a global hair tress shortage.

All in all, the Dyson Supersonic is a truly remarkable beauty product, with easy magnetic attachments and settings that are simple to use for anyone of any styling skill level. The only downside? The price tag. While most hair dryers may set you back $60 bucks, this sleek machine will cost you around $400.

See at Dyson

Moist Sense II Hydrometer

If you're someone who suffers from chronic dry skin, struggles with eczema, or just has a hard time keeping your skin moisturized throughout the winter months or while you're traveling, then keeping a Moist Sense II Hydrometer in your makeup bag could be a savior for your skin.

The Moist Sense uses precise sensors to check your skin's moisture level anywhere on the body. All you have to do is hold the Moist Sense on your skin, give it a second or two, and you'll get a 0-99 moisture rating in an instant.

If you get a reading between 0-50, then the corneal layer of your skin lacks moisture, meaning that your skin is super dry and that dead cells may have accumulated on it. If you get a reading between 50-99, then your skin has a healthy amount of moisture, and your skincare routine is probably on the right track to keeping things happy and healthy!

You can pick up one of these little guys online for around $130, but if you wanted to try it out before picking it up, give your local Sephora a call! The infamous black and white beauty store has started rolling these out in it skincare sections so employees can help accurately put together a moisturizer, mask, toner, and cleaner regimen for their customers!

See at Natural Healthy Concepts

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Buzzing about CES 2017 typically means running into some really cool stuff worth sharing with readers. Sometimes, however, you run into really dumb stuff that has no business vying for your attention … this list contains the latter.

Tinder VR

Tinder thought it'd be a good idea to use CES as a means to make a statement about how technology reduces our ability to make IRL connections.

The company's mission is "to get people together to have real experiences in the real world," but it also wanted to make a VR headset. So how do you reconcile those disparate ideas? By annoying everyone with a technology-free "VR headset."

The Tinder VR headset is essentially two pairs of goggles connected in the middle. When you strap one side of the device to your head and a stranger straps the other side of the device to theirs, you're forced to gaze into each other's eyes and suss out the contents of their soul.

Because CES is the best time and place to make a statement about the state of society and genuine communication … cue eye roll

U by Moen

You know what's better than a shower that turns on unfailingly with hot, pressurized water? Nothing, but Moen thought it could improve the shower anyway.

U by Moen is a "smart shower" that promises to help you "shower like never before." If you're wondering what that means, it apparently means controlling your shower with a smartphone app. The app lets you set a timer for your shower (because I definitely want my shower telling me when it's time to get out, not the other way around), features a start and stop control (make sure your device is water resistant!), lets you control the temperature so you can get it just right, and notifies you when your shower has reached the perfect preset temperature (because we're all brewing coffee and tea with our shower water?).

The U by Moen requires a custom installation that starts at $1200 and the whole thing connects over WiFi. Because we all need a WiFi connected shower. We definitely need that. Yep. Def.

Withings Hair Coach

What do you get when you cross a microphone with a hairbrush? I wish I had a punchline, but alas, it's the award-winning (as in won awards) Withings Hair Coach.

The Withings Hair Coach is set to hit the market this fall and promises to be the future of hair care. Using built-in sensors, the Withings Hair Coach hairbrush analyzes your hair health and routine. It claims to track the following:

• Dryness
• Damage
• Breakage
• Tangling
• Force & rhythm of brushing
• Gestures
• Stroke count

It tracks all of those data points using a microphone that listens to the sound of your hair being brushed, 3-axis load cells that measure the force of your brushing, an accelerometer and a gyroscope, and conductivity sensors for determining if it's brushing dry or wet hair.

Basically, it's a crap-ton of technology packed into a hairbrush that'll tell you you're really bad at brushing your hair. So if you're into that sorta thing, the Withings Hair Coach is for you! I'll be over here brushing my hair blissfully ignorant of my poor technique.

CMRA

My colleague Cella Lao Rousseau has already shared five reasons why she's fine living in a world without CMRA, and CES gave us a few reasons more.

In theory, a wrist-mounted camera seems like a good idea, right? When we went to check out the tech at CES, we were greeted with a prototype device and absolutely no demo. In fact, there weren't any demos available throughout all of CES.

If there's one thing we should all have learned by now, it's that gadgets don't exist until they do (I call it the Crowdfunding Caution), so until I see the thing in action (and the company addresses Cella's concerns), it gets the big ol' DUMB stamp.

Essential Vibrating Jeans

I mean, need we really say more than "vibrating" and "jeans" in the same sentence before your eyes start rolling? Didn't think so.

The Essential Vibrating Jeans are meant to offer up notifications with a slight buzz … in your pants. To be fair, there is one use case that makes a little sense: GPS feedback. Much like Apple Watch, the pants can give you separate vibrations for left turns and right turns.

Unfortunately, the company also imagines a world where students and employees can receive notifications from their teachers and bosses, respectively … in their pants. Because buzzing a subordinate's pants is definitely a good idea.

(Please excuse me while I go switch off the HR alarm.)

Moore USB Drive

The Moore USB Drive claims to be able to offer unlimited data storage anytime, anywhere — even when there's no internet connection available.

The flash drive is supposed to connect to a cloud storage system and — thanks to a special artificial intelligence algorithm — it automatically knows what data you need on the device at all times and makes sure it's available locally.

Let me kick you a scenario: The flash drive is 32GB and you've uploaded 3,200GB of data. You get on an airplane and you're looking for a movie you edited from a couple years ago — the ingenious AI will have the movie ready for you! You don't need internet access and you don't need to sync.

BWAHA! Nope. I'm thinking this company thinks we're dumb.

GraalPhone

The first dumb thing about the Graalphone is that it claims to be coming in late 2017, but it's only offering up mockups on its site (Crowdfunding Caution, folks!).

The Graalphone claims to be "the perfect synthesis between efficiency and fun," which just means it's a tablet, a computer, a smartphone, and a 2D and 3D camera. Y'know, no big.

The tablet and computer features a 7-inch screen, full-on keyboard, Microsoft Windows, and Android OS. The slide-out smartphone features a 5-inch screen with Android OS. Oh, did we mention the camera features 5X optical zoom? That thing zooms right on outta the casing … err, it would if it were real.

I'll gladly eat my graal if this thing ever makes it to market.

See anything stupid?

Were you keeping track of the happenings at CES? What's the dumbest thing you saw?

If you've ever had a hankering to print your face on your fingernails, O'2 Nails out of Guangzhou, China, wants to make that a reality.

Our team got to sample the acrylic-based wears at CES 2017, with O'2 Nails showing off its new Artpro Nail Printer, which works with an iPhone app to send custom designs or photos to a machine loaded with high-quality inks.

The idea is pretty simple: the printer is loaded with an ink cartridge similar to, well, an actual printer, and the feeder paints your conveyed masterpiece onto an acrylic nail. The company claims that each cartridge can print up to 800 nails, depending on the intricacy of the design, but for commercial purposes O'2 nails says each one is a palatable 15 cents.

At $780, the printer itself is being aimed at nail salons, but the technology should filter down to more accessible products in the next couple of years. For now, though, you can start looking forward to seeing the O'2 creations later this year, when the printer begins shipping worldwide.

In the meantime, you can revel in the glory that is Mikah's printed-dog fingernail.

After raising nearly 500% of its original Kickstarter goal back in February, the Nurugo Micro digital microscope is finally shipping, and we took it for a spin during CES 2017!

The microscope is deceptively easy to use: because the lens, which magnifies up to 400x, sits on top of an existing phone camera, it doesn't need any batteries or additional equipment. Just a clip and a tight fit. The beauty of this product is how portable it is, and how well it works with the free iPhone app.

We tested it on our skin during Showstoppers, and the included app analyzed its condition, from moisture level to pore size (ew!), but Nurugo says the use cases are multitudinous. And because it's attached to a smartphone camera, of course the footage can be recorded for posterity.

Nurugo, which sells the Micro magnifying lens for a very reasonable $70, is aiming to distribute the product in schools and chemistry labs around the world.

LEGO is no stranger to innovative, tech-first solutions for kids, but this one takes the proverbial cake. LEGO Boost is a platform that allows kids to build practically anything and program it using an iPad app.

While Boost is not the first solution of this kinds — Sphero and others have been at it for years now — LEGO is certainly the most popular brand to do so. From robots to guitars to buildings that move, LEGO Boost uses a central Hub, plus programmable motors and various sensors, to make what's built do whatever the app tells it to do. From the website:

It's only coming in August 2017, but Boost is already shaping up to one of the most exciting kids-related announcements of the year!

Kérastase, L'Oréal, and Withings — three companies you may not expect to be working together — have brought us the Hair Coach, a smart hairbrush that offers guidance on follicle health, and brushing technique, with an included iOS app.

Sensors inside the brush determine whether hair is dry, damaged, overly tangled or full-on broken, while the app "coaches" you into better technique using accelerometers. Everything is then synced to the Hair Coach app over Bluetooth.

The Hair Coach brush will be available from hair salons and beauty supply stores around the world starting this fall.

See at Withings