Biometric dog collar monitors your pooch’s vitals, keeps tabs on its current location

Thanks to the pandemic, we have realized the importance of tracking body vitals regularly and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Now a company has perceived the importance of the same for the man’s best friend and has devised a dog collar that should keep tabs on your dog’s activity levels, heart and respiratory health with medical accuracy.

As a pet owner, I often struggle in understanding my doggo’s health. Since the poor guy cannot speak, it’s difficult to comprehend his pain without the vet’s help. With this new biometric health collar designed for dogs – will eventually be miniaturized for pups and cats – Invoxia intends to help out many other pet owners like me, who can now constantly measure the vital stats of their dogs including respiration and heart rate.

Announced at CES 2022, the Invoxia smart dog collar in addition to monitoring the vital stats also doubles as a GPS and activity tracker for your pooch and uses Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and LTE-M for connectivity. It can keep constant tabs on the dog’s activity levels such as walking, running, resting, scratching and barking and even provide pet parents with data regarding their dog’s daily routine on the accompanying app.

For constant heart and respiratory health readings, this smart dog collar features radar sensors. The radar, according to Invoxia, sends out a radio signal which is reflected by the dog’s first layer of skin on the neck. The radar sensors are then able to “know the speed and movement of the skin right under the collar.” The readings are tabulated by an algorithm to determine the pet’s heart and respiratory rate.

Since, we like the collar to sit loosely and comfortably around our dogs’ necks, Invoixa has taken that into consideration and made their smart dog collar more receptive than the similar kind of trackers in smartwatches for humans. So, you can have the collar sit comfortably around the dog’s neck and still be assured of medical accuracy from it. The comfortable yet smart dog collar comes with easy to wash, removable fabric cover, and is very aggressively priced at $99 with an additional $12.99 monthly subscription for GPS features.

Some pet owners can be skeptical of having their dogs fastened with a tracking and health monitoring device throughout the day and also feel they don’t necessarily want to know about vital signs constantly. Invoxia believes, the smart dog collar will be beneficial for post-operative monitoring and health tracking of dogs reeling with respiratory or cardiac illnesses. This dog collar is overly important since the heart and respiratory rates are first and true indicators for preventive care and the dog’s baseline anomalies can help owners and vets detect illnesses early.

Designer: Invoxia

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Smart Home Inte(great)ion

Smart hubs like the Amazon Echo and Google Home are cropping up all over the place. Considering the fact they’re all new pieces of tech, they come with their own personal and unique forms and designs that we haven’t seen before. The smart hub ‘Triby IO’ released by Invoxia is sleek, highly adaptable to any environment and hints at a few nostalgiac features that make this product likable on so many levels. With programmable buttons, integration with Alexa and many other applications, Triby IO doesn’t skip a beat. Adding to the gorgeous aesthetics and functionality of the Triby IO is the magnetic feature on the rear of the body, allowing the smart hub to be stuck to the fridge, saving space during cooking. This carefully designed smart hub is easily the more exciting choice of smart products available, and it would not shock me to see more products like this popping up over the coming months.

The look of Triby IO is simple; there are no overcomplicating features – what you see is what you get with Triby, and nowadays that’s a blessing. That being said, Triby has several features that make day-to-day life a whole lot easier. For example; when it’s time to wake up – Triby IO puts on my favorite radio station and displays the weather- not only this, due to Triby IO’s smart connections, it brightens your bedroom slightly with an HUE lamp, starts brewing your coffee and turns on the heater in your bathroom too. How about when it’s time for a workout session – Triby IO will lower the temperature in the room, play the music you want to workout to, display the exercises you need to do and of course count down the time for you.

Designer: Invoxia

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Make your smartphone a conferencing wizard

I guess times were just simpler when we had the landline telephone. Sure, they weren’t portable, but you wouldn’t have network problems, or battery problems, and they used to be such a dream to use! Now we have smartphones that are portable, and come with a rather advanced caller ID, but need to be periodically charged, have network issues, cost a fortune, and let’s not forget all those radio waves that pass through your head.

The NVX 200 is perfect for retaining the good qualities of the telephone, but allows you to use your existing smartphone just the same. Designed for offices that don’t want to rely on additional desk-phones, the NVX 200 is a state-of-the-art telephone hub that allows you to have a professional phone set-up in your office using your existing smartphone (or even a tablet). Resplendent in its receiver-and-twirly-cord glory, the NVX 200 works like a charm! Just connect your smartphone to it via Bluetooth as soon as you unbox it and you’re set for life. After that all you do is dock your phone in its slot and you have a brilliant landline phone that provides seamless service and crystal audio clarity for not just telephone calls, but even VOIP calls as well as video conferencing from third party apps like Skype, etc. The NVX 200 also works without docking the phone, as long as the phone is within 15 feet of the dock.

Perfect for every office-goer, the NVX turns your smartphone into the ideal desk-phone/conferencing-device with no hassle! Plus, doesn’t it feel better to have that mobile-phone away from your face??

Designer: Invoxia

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Invoxia Triby Smart Fridge Magnet Makes Its Debut at CES

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If until now fridge magnets doubled at most as bottle openers or kitchen timers, Invoxia Triby adds a whole lot of functionality that leads us to think that such decorative accessories could play a greater role in our lives.

Over the past few years I have developed an obsession for fridge magnets and I strive to get at least one three from any new city that I visit. While I do prefer the metallic ones, I also consider that the ones made from vinyl, ceramic, resin or even plastic have a beauty of their own. Still, the fridge magnet in question does not really impress with its design, but rather with the numerous functions it has. Invoxia Triby connects via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to other devices, packs a speaker and an e-ink display for messages, and can even stream music, should you feel the need to listen to something while cooking.

Supposing that you live in a developed country and you don’t bury your food to keep it cool (not so sure about the fresh factor in this context), chances are you take a trip to the fridge at least once a day. When doing so, it’s probably better to adorn it with smart (or at least good looking) gadgets, so that the kitchen becomes an even more attractive room, in case it wasn’t already.

First of all, Invoxia Triby facilitates communication, regardless if you want to tell the kids to come down for dinner or if you want to talk to them while you’re away.

In case you don’t want to disturb the others by making noises, you can doodle a message for them to see when they get nearby the fridge.

Triby also packs hands-free functionality, so you can answer calls and continue cooking. Supposing that the microphone and the speaker are good enough, you should be able to do so at a distance.

Not at last, Invoxia’s smart fridge magnet doubles as a Bluetooth speaker, so you can stream music to it effortlessly.

I particularly prefer this trend of separating functions into different products, rather than making an all-in-one device that’s either mediocre at all that it does, or needs to be taken to the repair shop when one of the features is faulty (Mac computers, anyone?). In other words, I don’t like a thing that’s a Jack of all trades, as companies tend to create better products when they focus on fewer features. That being said, instead of looking to buy a fridge with smart functions, it’s probably better to get a fridge magnet that you can easily replace if it gets broken.

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