CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 8, 2026--
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, this month launched the Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro, transforming at-home hair removal into a personalized and rewarding self-care routine. Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro is the first at-home IPL with audio feedback and motion guidance that talks to users 2, helping give them greater confidence in effective treatment. As the world’s no. 1 IPL brand 3, Philips brings 25 years of IPL research and clinically proven results right into the home, empowering people to enjoy five years of smooth-feeling skin. 4
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“We've taken everything we've learned from decades of light-based technology research and transformed it into an intelligent product that works with you, not against you,” said Dominique Oh, Global Beauty & Grooming Business Unit Leader, Philips. “The Philips Lumea 9900 Pro is proof that when health technology meets well-being, you create solutions that are designed to improve lives – one smooth, confident moment at a time.”
“The Philips Lumea 9900 Pro represents our commitment to empowering women with innovative health and beauty solutions that enhance their confidence and freedom,” said Wonsook Ko, Global Category Leader, Beauty, Philips. “We understand that every woman’s skin, hair and self-care journey are different and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t lead to rewarding results. Now you can be coached and guided in your hair removal, helping you understand your results and stay motivated throughout your unique hair removal journey.”
The easiest long-lasting hair removal by Philips5
The Lumea IPL app, downloadable via the Apple App Store or Google Play, tracks users’ movements in real-time. As they progress along their legs, the app gives them live audio feedback to help enhance coverage and technique. The audio cues and visual prompts coach through each session, helping even first-time IPL users use the device with confidence from the start.
Long-lasting results (meaning good-bye constant hair removal!)
For women who feel most confident being hair-free, hair removal can add to an endless mental checklist –“when did I last wax?” or “do I have time to shave?” – and be an all-too-frequent chore. With more than 90% hair reduction after just three treatments 6 and five years of smooth-feeling skin 7 with little maintenance (just one session per month after the initial treatment period), the Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro system breaks the often-tedious hair removal cycle. No more frantic bathroom sprints or last-minute waxing appointments. Instead, users can say “yes” to spontaneous beach trips, spur-of-the-moment dates and feeling like their most confident selves.
Self-care personalized to you
Every woman is unique and so is her skin and hair, meaning one-size-fits-all hair removal can lead to unsatisfactory results time and time again. The Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro device has intelligent SenseIQ Pro sensor technology which determines individual skin tone and guides users to the recommended light setting, 8 for effective, comfortable and safe treatment. It also has smart progress tracking that provides post-treatment reports that analyze hair reduction progress, and personalized recommendations, helping users understand their results and stay motivated throughout their unique hair removal journeys.
Effective and safe – even on sensitive skin
The Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro device harnesses the safe and proven technology of Intense Pulsed Light, using gentle pulses of light that stimulate hair follicles in their growth phase to go into a resting phase. The hairs then shed and regrowth is slowed. Bringing both clinical credibility and added features for safety to at-home IPL use, the Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro device has U.S. FDA clearance.
Availability:
Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro is now available for purchase on Amazon’s U.S. store, MSRP $699.95. The device comes with an extended five-year warranty with product registration.
About Philips:
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Philips’ patient- and people-centric innovation leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver personal health solutions for consumers and professional health solutions for healthcare providers and their patients in the hospital and the home.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in image-guided therapy, diagnostic imaging, ultrasound, monitoring, enterprise informatics and personal health. Philips generated 2025 sales of approximately EUR 18 billion and employs approximately 63,700 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
The Philips Lumea 9900 Pro is first of its kind IPL hair removal device with real-time audio feedback and motion guidance.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Airlines canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. on Saturday as they worked to recover from a nationwide ground stop a day earlier that left passengers scrambling for seats and disrupted travel around the world.
The U.S. air travel schedule should be back to normal by the end of Sunday, two days after what was the nation's longest ground stop in 25 years, Bryan Bedford, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said. He said airlines “will still have delays and cancellations” Saturday but promised that the “worst is behind us.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters Saturday that a contractor had been replacing a section of the system's old copper wire with new fiber wire, and that work somehow caused the system overload, leading to Friday’s ground stop that lasted more than four hours. The work caused “intermittent” communications and radar gaps, according to Trump administration officials.
Duffy said officials were investigating whether contractor “incompetence” or a faulty router was the cause.
“Our contractor didn't meet the moment or the equipment didn’t meet the moment,” Duffy said.
The contractor, L3Harris Technologies Inc., did not immediately respond to requests for comment or issue a public statement Saturday.
The nationwide stop was the first since January 2023, when a key FAA computer system that sends notices to pilots malfunctioned, and the second since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Andrew Charlton, an aviation consultant, said Friday's stoppage affected about a quarter of the 45,000 flights in the U.S. each day.
“The knock-on effect of that is incredible,” said Charlton, managing director of Aviation Advocacy. “The aircraft doesn’t just fly from A to B and back ... and then stop. It then moves onto C and then over to E and around and around and around. It is, of course, exacerbated if you’re talking about long-haul flights, international flights over the Atlantic or over the Pacific.”
At airports across the U.S. on Saturday, passengers were still scrambling to figure out how to get to their destinations. Some waited out the chaos in hotels, others sprinted to snag rental cars and bus or train tickets. But many were forced to camp out in airports.
Others got creative. Video in Seattle's airport showed a passenger serenading stressed out travelers with classical music. The singer T-Pain and the band Hoobastank were recorded singing to passengers as they waited on commercial airplanes.
Dan Russell, 66, learned his connecting flight from Kona, Hawaii, to Fresno, California, was canceled a half-hour before boarding was scheduled in San Diego on Friday night. Hotels were full, so he and his wife waited at the airport for a rebooked flight on Saturday.
“There’s nothing you can do,” Russell said, as his wife, Mary, tried to nap on his shoulder.
A cheerful Southwest Airlines gate agent at Dallas Love Field greeted passengers at dawn with, “Good morning, good morning,” then repeatedly said all flights were full and asked passengers to have boarding passes ready to help keep flights moving.
In Las Vegas, Korean Mexican influencer Sujin Kim, known online as Chingu Amiga, said her Friday flight to Mexico was rescheduled for Saturday morning. Kim said she had never experienced anything like it, though she travels often and “I always lose my suitcase.”
“Many people ended up sleeping at the airport, too, but thank God we managed to find a room,” she said.
At the Newark, N.J., airport, Umi Egchi was trying to figure out when his flights would line up so he could return home to Japan.
“I’m not sure exactly what happened. I just want to go home,” said Egchi, who had a sleep mask on top of his head.
Sports teams that traveled for games this weekend adjusted game start times, and No. 19 Mississippi’s game at Oklahoma was delayed a full day to Sunday.
FlightAware, a website that tracks flights, said more than 4,100 flights had been canceled Saturday. Cirium, a similar site, put that number above 3,200 flights.
Duffy reiterated Saturday that no one was in any danger as more than 3,000 flights in the air at the time of the grounding order landed safely.
Trump administration officials also blamed Congress for failing to approve more funding to replace the decades-old technology that helps manage the U.S. air traffic. Duffy said that 70% of the system had been replaced with fiber optic wire but that his agency also needs new air traffic control towers and runways.
The FAA has replaced thousands of old copper wires with fiber optic lines and upgraded hundreds of radio systems as part of an overhaul that began last year after Congress approved $12.5 billion in funding. Duffy and the White House are pushing for $30 billion more to complete the work.
“We have aging infrastructure throughout the airspace,” Duffy said, while stressing that flying remains safe. “You won’t get to your destination if we don’t think you can get there safely.”
In a moment that perhaps only further underscored the Transportation Department’s struggling systems, Duffy’s news conference Saturday morning began with audio troubles that forced last-minute microphone swaps.
Although Duffy said he had repeatedly spoken with President Donald Trump since the ground stop began, the president has largely been quiet on the topic. He has not spoken publicly on the matter, nor issued statements via social media, although he commented on other things. He spoke on the phone with a Fox News reporter, but that was not on camera.
Charlton, the aviation consultant, pointed to the difficulties of updating a system that can never shut down.
“What you’re watching here is trying to change the tires of your car when the car’s going at 80 miles an hour down the expressway, because nothing stops in aviation,” Charlton said.
The problem appeared similar to a regional air traffic control communication outage in September that snarled hundreds of flights across the Northeast. That disruption was linked to a construction crew cutting a fiber optic line.
Aging equipment was also blamed for brief radar outages last year that disrupted Newark airport.
Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo said the difference Friday was the nationwide scale of the disruption, which left controllers unable to reliably talk to pilots.
“If you don’t have that ability, whether it’s because the old wires that they have are just run down or for whatever reason, you’ve got to stop airplanes on the ground and not put them in the air, where you’re going to risk not being able to communicate with them,” said Arroyo, a former United Airlines pilot.
This version has been updated to correct that Duffy said investigators were looking at whether a possible faulty router, not a faulty wire, might have been the cause.
Kruesi reported from Providence, Rhode Island, and Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press journalists Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, Elliot Spagat in San Diego, Bernice Bautista in Las Vegas, and Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa, also contributed.
Passengers wait for their flights at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Houston after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted nationwide ground stops. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Passengers wait in line at a baggage claim area at George Bush International Airport on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Houston, after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted nationwide ground stops. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Two travelers sleep in the baggage claim area at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
An American Airlines flight takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, arrives for a news conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Visitors to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center observation tower watch an airplane as it prepares to land at Washington Dulles International Airport after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted nationwide ground stops in Chantilly, Va., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Passenger watch as workers unload luggage from a United plane as flights are delayed at Los Angeles International Airport Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Passengers wait as flights are delayed inside a terminal at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
The sun sets over Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in DFW Airport, Texas, Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A passenger moves through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport as all flights are canceled or delayed, Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
People wait at a terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, in Arlington, Va., after the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
An agent helps travelers at a ticketing desk at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)
