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more than 60 vintages from many based in Luxembourg and driven by founder
producers. Gregoire Yakan, is working to fill the gap —
starting in Togo, where Koosmik now has
A WEATHER EYE ON YOUR 100,000 users able to access savings and
CROPS AND COWS checking accounts, credit, insurance, mobile
An agricultural-monitoring product wallets, and other services, usually for a small
from Dilepix (Rennes, France) uses fee but often for free. Yakan noted that Koos-
images from “connected traps,” sur- mik raised US$2 million in investment last
veillance cameras, and smartphones, year and is seeking more investors to help the
linked with analysis software, to company expand into more African nations.
warn farmers about threats like
pests, weeds, and diseases and to
tell when seeds are germinating,
Pull into a real ProovStation, get a report in seconds. flowers are blossoming, and cows
are calving. The data can be com-
creates a certified inspection photo report pressed for embedding in a tractor or drone,
on a secure tool that’s available on mobile, said Dilepix representative Alban Pobla. We
tablet, and web platforms. The photo shows a eavesdropped as Pobla explained the system
ProovStation model. The real thing is bigger. to Brent Fisher, a convention-goer from Sense
Photonics (Research Triangle, North Carolina).
LORD OF THE (SMART) RINGS
Forget about carrying around all those
clunky credit cards, wallets, purses, keys, and Koosmik’s Yakan (l.) has expansion plans.
maybe even your phone. ICARE Technologies
(Ajaccio, France) will soon launch a connected SKIN IN THE GAME
ring — with Wave Control data security and Duolab, a part of Groupe L’Occitaine (with
a product design headquarters in Luxembourg and Switzer-
by Paris luminary land, among other countries), has developed
Philippe Starck — that a skin-care system that takes personalization
provides contactless seriously. It begins with a diagnostic tool,
payment and ID. Thus, wielded at Eureka Park by genial Parisians
the jewelry doubles Pobla (r.) sells Fisher on smart farming. Cecile Tourel, Magali Millet, and Aude Petiet.
as a personal badge After analyzing your skin, the device generates
or loyalty card, useful MI WEBSITE ES TU WEBSITE
for public transit, Adapti is a website service that uses
ICARE’s connected stadium ticketing, machine-learning algorithms to evaluate visi-
ring: Starck look and unlocking doors tors to a client’s website, customize it to their
and devices. ICARE individual tastes and tendencies, and ply each
promises lots more downloadable functions as visitor with recommendations. The “intuitive”
the Aeklys ring evolves. interface “can be installed in minutes,” said
Adapti co-founder Daniel Antunes. “After
DON’T WASTE THAT WINE that, artificial intelligence does the work for
Invineo (Gemblou, Belgium) has come up
with a wine dispenser — including a line of
vacuum- and temperature-controlled “bot- (L.-r.) Tourel,
tles” — that provides single-glass servings Millet, and Petiet;
without exposing the remaining wine to Duolab formulator
the air. Founder and CEO Thierry Tacheny,
shown below enthusiastically explaining his a personal-care
product, said that Invineo has commercial protocol and rec-
customers now and that a home-cellar version ommends the right
is in the works. It already has a wine roster of mixture of mostly organic ingredients. A Duo-
Co-founders Antunes (l.), Antoine Granjon lab formulator then blends those ingredients
into an ultra-thin emulsion, heated to skin
you.” Whether every website visitor is eager temperature and dispensed in two capsules (a
to have Adapti (Luxembourg) pick his or her moisturizing base and a targeted concentrate)
brain and parse his or her personal tastes is through a smart applicator. If this sounds too
another issue. complicated, you’re not worried about your
complexion. ■
A LITTLE BANKING ON A BIG CONTINENT
Africa is a huge continent with countless David Benjamin is a novelist and journal-
remote pockets where the banking ser- ist who splits his time between Paris and
vices commonplace in advanced countries Madison, Wisconsin. For more of his work, visit
Tacheny dispenses wisdom on Invineo. are either scarce or nonexistent. Koosmik, lastkidbooks.com.

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