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Turn your clothes into health trackers

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It seems like only yesterday the hype of fitness wearables was the talk of the town. It wasn’t long until that hype died down and we were left with this sense of confusion with what to do with our impulsively bought not-so-smart, smart wearables. Thankfully, with the passing of time and the history of lessons learned, comes a powerful new biosensor.

Introducing Spire Health Tag – the World’s smallest personal health microsensor that adheres to your clothes, no charging or changing required. No need to replace or recharge this wearable, Spire Health Tags have a year-long battery life and can go through the washer and dryer without having to be replaced or reapplied. The Spire Health Tag is the industry’s most miniature biosensor that discreetly adheres to your clothes and uses advanced algorithms to provide personalized, real-time health guidance for sleep, calmness and daily activity.

Founded in 2013 by Jonathan Palley, Neema Moraveji, and Ben Yule – Spire are dedicated to giving every person the power to control their own mental and physical health by capturing real-time bio-signals and making data useful and actionable. I can’t emphasize the word “micro” enough here; Spire has revolutionized the way we will use wearables shortly and hopefully thanks to their excellent software pairing, it will help us be more mindful of our situations. We’ve seen so many health wearables come and go over the last few years, could this be the one to change the tide?

Designer: Spire

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Turn your clothes into health trackers

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It seems like only yesterday the hype of fitness wearables was the talk of the town. It wasn’t long until that hype died down and we were left with this sense of confusion with what to do with our impulsively bought not-so-smart, smart wearables. Thankfully, with the passing of time and the history of lessons learned, comes a powerful new biosensor.

Introducing Spire Health Tag – the World’s smallest personal health microsensor that adheres to your clothes, no charging or changing required. No need to replace or recharge this wearable, Spire Health Tags have a year-long battery life and can go through the washer and dryer without having to be replaced or reapplied. The Spire Health Tag is the industry’s most miniature biosensor that discreetly adheres to your clothes and uses advanced algorithms to provide personalized, real-time health guidance for sleep, calmness and daily activity.

Founded in 2013 by Jonathan Palley, Neema Moraveji, and Ben Yule – Spire are dedicated to giving every person the power to control their own mental and physical health by capturing real-time bio-signals and making data useful and actionable. I can’t emphasize the word “micro” enough here; Spire has revolutionized the way we will use wearables shortly and hopefully thanks to their excellent software pairing, it will help us be more mindful of our situations. We’ve seen so many health wearables come and go over the last few years, could this be the one to change the tide?

Designer: Spire

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Turn your clothes into health trackers

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It seems like only yesterday the hype of fitness wearables was the talk of the town. It wasn’t long until that hype died down and we were left with this sense of confusion with what to do with our impulsively bought not-so-smart, smart wearables. Thankfully, with the passing of time and the history of lessons learned, comes a powerful new biosensor.

Introducing Spire Health Tag – the World’s smallest personal health microsensor that adheres to your clothes, no charging or changing required. No need to replace or recharge this wearable, Spire Health Tags have a year-long battery life and can go through the washer and dryer without having to be replaced or reapplied. The Spire Health Tag is the industry’s most miniature biosensor that discreetly adheres to your clothes and uses advanced algorithms to provide personalized, real-time health guidance for sleep, calmness and daily activity.

Founded in 2013 by Jonathan Palley, Neema Moraveji, and Ben Yule – Spire are dedicated to giving every person the power to control their own mental and physical health by capturing real-time bio-signals and making data useful and actionable. I can’t emphasize the word “micro” enough here; Spire has revolutionized the way we will use wearables shortly and hopefully thanks to their excellent software pairing, it will help us be more mindful of our situations. We’ve seen so many health wearables come and go over the last few years, could this be the one to change the tide?

Designer: Spire

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Wellograph Watch Displays Fitness and Health Stats Using an Infographic UI

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Some manufacturers of wearables seem to think that a smartwatch doesn’t need to have a gazillion functions, so long as it looks nice. That’s surely the case with the Wellograph Watch.

Take HP’s MB Chronograph, for example. That wearable doesn’t even have apps, so there’s no way it could have an extensive functionality, not to mention that its design isn’t exactly otherworldly. The tech giant hasn’t understood that it needed to bring something new to the table in order to stay relevant and sell its product. Wearables don’t even need to have a display to perform a task flawlessly, and the Articheck Assure is a clear example of that. Back to smartwatches, though, Wellograph manages to integrate a simplistic range of capabilities in a sleek-looking timepiece featuring an unusual way of displaying things: on an infographic UI.

Don’t expect the Wellograph watch to do much. It’ll monitor your activity, heart, number of steps taken each day (which, as you know, should be north of 10,000 if you want to live long and prosper), and your world records in terms of speed. Just kidding, the wearable also comes with a stopwatch, should you decide to use it for running, swimming, or other sports where speed matters.

It’s funny how Brian M. Wolfe of AppAdvice thinks the Wellograph won’t win any design awards, seeing how it was actually nominated for the 2014 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.

That being said, this $349 smartwatch has a sapphire crystal display. On the software side of things, it features a firmware that’s updated regularly, which means that new features are provided frequently.

It works equally fine with Android, iOS and Windows Phone smartphones, so you shouldn’t really worry about its compatibility. The week-long battery life is about as much as the one of the improved Pebble. Bear in mind that the Pebble smartwatch has an e-paper display, while this one is a 1.26-inch low-power rectangular LCD with integrated backlight. The bulky design also brings the Pebble Steel to mind, so I’m going to subtract some originality points from there. At least the Wellograph charges wirelessly.

Given the small number of functions, Wellograph’s price will definitely seem steep to most people. If you’re willing to sacrifice that for great design, then I won’t blame you.

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Cue Health Tracker: Visualizing Your Health

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Health buffs can now obsess over gadgets too, as a new, creative device with their needs in mind hits the market.

It might be not as good as having a doctor accompanying you 24/7, Cue is pretty close to that. We’re talking of a gadget that analyzes samples from your body and recommends specific actions intended to improve the user’s health. Cue will be capable of measuring testosterone, crafting fertility indexes, detect inflammation, and vitamin D. But that’s just the beggining, as more versions with different functions might come out in the future, too.

You can learn more about Cue on the video below these lines.

Source: Technabob

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OMsignal’s Workout Clothes Share Biometric Data with Your Smartphone

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The compression garments developed by OMsignal collect vital details about your workout and send them to your smartphone, so you can quantify yourself and your performance over various periods of time.

The term wearable tech has a more literal meaning with each passing day. Biometric sensors are moving from wristbands and smartwatches to smart clothes and socks. After all, the best way to track fitness performance is to cover as great of a body area as possible.

Stéphane Marceau, CEO and co-founder of OMsignal, explained the necessity for biometric shirts: “We’ve been wearing clothing all our lives. It’s the most natural and therefore the ultimate ‘wearable’ medium. Clothing has always been about protection and fashion, but it will now also help motivate us to better ourselves every day. You would never drive a car without a speedometer, RPM or a fuel gauge, right? Well, with OM, you now get a dashboard to better steer your life, to increase your self-mastery, to push your fitness performance, and live a healthier lifestyle.”

Marceau also explained how the technology behind biometric sensors evolved in the recent years, and how wearables based on such sensors became a reality: “Exercise physiology research has defined human performance through intricate lab studies, but the technologies researchers use were never available for everyday and the aspiring athlete. You could never bring hospital or lab-type equipment with you on the court or track. OMsignal now makes it easy to track biometrics in real time, in real life and during sports activity. At OMsignal we’ve focused on giving consumers quality insights on performance, taking the research a step further to guide users to their peak performance.”

If it wasn’t obvious enough from the previous picture, then I’ll tell you that the OMsignal smart fitness shirts come in four styles: with long or short sleeves, with no sleeves at all and… I can’t seem to be able to pin the fourth style. Anyway, there seems to be a style and size for everybody, regardless if they’re working out indoors or outdoors.

The company is already taking pre-orders, and the biometric shirts are expected to be shipped this summer. A kit comprising a t-shirt and a smart black box that sends biometric data to your smartphone can be owned for $199, but the retail price is expected to be higher.

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Cityzen Smart Shirt Acts as a Health Tracker, Recharges by Washing

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France, the homeland of haute couture, has yet one more reason to be proud of its creative minds, who have developed a fabric embedded with health tracking sensors.

Smart clothes are definitely not something new, as we’ve seen smart socks and even mood sweaters that give an visual interpretation of your feelings. Still, Cityzen’s approach is truly innovative, as it packs sensors within the fabric. With the help of these sensors, such aspects as body heat, heart rate, motion and location can be easily monitored. Initially presented at CES, last month, the Smart Sensing fabric brought Cityzen the Inclusive Innovation in Everyday Health award, a sign that cutting edge technology gets its deserved recognition.

Since there is no way such a shirt could pack a display (regardless of how advanced it is), all the data collected by the sensors is transmitted to a smartphone via Bluetooth, as seen in the above image.

Gilbert Reveillon, Cityzen’s international managing director, pointed out that the Smart Sensing textile could have many applications: “The fabric can be made into any clothing: gloves, shirts, pants, you name it. It is the first time ever that we managed to mix these two industries, embedding sensors into textile.”

According to Reveillon, the Cityzen smart shirt could revolutionize detection of serious health problems: “You can’t prevent a heart attack from happening, but you could definitely detect it hours, or even days, ahead of it taking place.”

Moreover, the smart fabric could also be used for athletic apparel and sports clothing, as Reveillon explains “On the field, a coach could tell when a member of the team has been running over capacity and put in a fresh player.” To accomplish this, Cityzen Sciences worked together with major French sports teams, in conjunction with members of the health industry.

Reveillon also revealed that while at CES, one of his company’s employees went for an hour-long walk on the Las Vegas strip wearing a t-shirt made from the smart fabric. The vital signs were displayed all the time on a smartphone screen and “The Las Vegas street definitely increases the heartbeat. The vibes are very positive.”

While the fabric can be ironed and washed without any problems, charging it simply by washing is a work in progress, but Reveillon promised that “In two years’ time, by washing it, you will recharge the batteries.” Now that’s a feature I’d like to see in person!

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