Technologies make us more easily monitoring health, and more cheap and convenient, just have a wide range of fitness trackers and smart watch these applications and wearable devices, they can improve our health from headphones and clothing design. With the advent of the new year, it becomes more slim and healthier. It is a wish. This is a good time to let us look back to see a popular fitness tracking technology.
iOS8 health app
Apple's latest mobile operating system iOS8 is on September, which has a new feature-health application, which collects data for other health applications.
At the same time, the medical identity function of the application allows you to enter a variety of health information. If you misfortune, this information is important to the emergency rescue work of medical staff. The information includes allergies, blood type, medical conditions, and emergency contacts. Importantly, even if the phone is locked, these data can be accessed at any time.
Suitable for running within iPhone's iOS8 system, but not for iPad or iPod-Touch.
Wello Personal Health Monitor
It is iPhone4S / 5 / 5S, Android 4.3 and above with Bluetooth 4.0 low-energy-consuming function, Wello turns the part of the mobile phone into a personal health monitor. What you need to do is to take Wello for a while, the sensor can accurately measure your cardiac blood pressure, ECG, heart rate, blood oxygen concentration, body temperature and lung function.
Since Wello contains microelectronics, nano-sensors, you will instantly receive monitoring effect imaging and data analysis. Over time, monitoring mode will help you determine how healthy methods. Wello can do remote access, connect with other health and fitness devices, such as a pedometer, and sleep tracker, and synchronize to existing devices such as Fitbit or Jawbone Up.
It is already available, but Wello is expected to be available in 2015, priced at $ 199.
Health perceived clothing
OmSignal's biological identification smart clothes are designed from scalability, the machine washable characteristics, close to the user's body, can promote blood circulation and exercise after exercise, and can speed up recovery. Shirts built-in accelerometers and electrocardiogram sensors can monitor the wearer's heartbeat changes during exercise, while other sensors can calculate the consumption of the calories. The data collected by smart shirt is recorded by detachable data module and forwards to the OmSignal supporting application on the user's smartphone via Bluetooth Real-time (IOS system only).
There are currently only male smart shirts with these features, priced at $ 130, which is expected to launch female series in early 2015.
OmSignal does not satisfy the following features, with Ralph Lauren to design Ralph Lauren Polo Tech Shirt. There is a logo of Ralph Lauren Polo, equipped with an electrocardiogram, respiratory sensor, gyroscope and accelerometer, monitoring and analyzing the level of motion, energy output, heart rate, heart rate change, breathing rate, breathing depth, activity intensity , Steps and heat combustion, and provide training feedback in real time.
Based on the research of Polar Bear, a sensor textile is newly developed, which is a $ 199 HEXOSKIN Arctic Biometric smart shirt, which solves the problem that is in a cold area and wants fitness. It tracks heart rate, steps, and heat, as well as indicators such as rhythm, motion level, acceleration, breathing rate, sleep time, heart rate recovery, and variation (it can track 42,000 data per minute).
From the shirt to the shoes, this time to the insole. Moticon's OpenGo Sensor Insole (price is not fixed) turn your shoes into wireless tracking systems with 13 pressure sensors, can monitor foot pressure, exercise, acceleration mode, and gait, and the data is wirelessly passed by USB data. Transfer to the computer stores and analyzes, or provides feedback in real time through Ant + wireless transmission.
MIMO baby monitor
Delicious technology products do not have an aging boundary, MIMO smart baby monitors are a moment that makes parents peace of mind. Through MIMO, they can monitor children's breathing, skin temperature, physical posture and activity mode. The respiratory sensor is embedded in the machine washable baby clothing Kimono, and provides the corresponding information in real time through Bluetooth Wi-Fi function, and passes to your smartphone. MIMO can also provide a lot of notifications in a major change, so you can immediately check out young children.
MIMO is placed in Intel's edison chip, which is a separate, Linux computer model SD card that allows devices to communicate and remotely control. For example, when the baby wakes up, the baby clothing sends a signal to another functional device of Edison, such as MIMO BOTTLE WARMER. Parents receive through the application of smartphones, they can do is to pick up the warm milk bottle to feed their children.
The founder of MIMO decided that the retail price was $ 199.
Wrist series
You need to choose in the fitness tracker product line because they have a variety of features and prices, and they are constantly close to life - including some famous brands, like Samsung with its product GEAR FIT bracelet.
Basis peak called "Ultimate Fitness and Sleep Track" can track motion, sweating, skin temperature, and heart rate. It monitors a range of exercise, such as walking, cycling and running, which can also sleep by monitoring the wearer, capture REM, vision, deep sleep, motion and interruption data.
PEAK (Waterproof Coefficient 5 ATM) is transmitted to the iOS or Android application synchronously via Bluetooth, and the user can go deep into all recorded data for each activity or sleep. Future version updates will allow users to view notifications, such as calls or text messages of your mobile phone.
If you are looking for products that combine more fashionable (or appearance) fitness trackers and smart watches, the retail price is 200 dollars, aluminum and soft silicone straps, Basis peak smart watch, may meet you. Demand.
Other famous products have also entered this market, including Microsoft's Microsoft Band Smart Bracelets, tracking motion, distance, consumption, sleep duration and quality, and providing intelligent watches important features, such as email preview, calendar Reminder, call reminder, real-time weather and other notices. Other features include ultraviolet monitoring, built-in Cortana personal digital assistant and scanning Starbucks membership card. Its retail price is $ 200.
Garmin Vivosmart is a bracelet fitness tracker. It shows a range of indicators, such as time, take steps, motion distance, heat combustion, and sleep data, and remind you to move when you don't move for a long time. Text, call, compatible Bluetooth device transmission email and calendar reminder notification can be displayed on the screen of Vivosmart. The equipment retail price is $ 169.99.
As the "most advanced fitness tracker" in the world, JAWBone Up3 sensors can track the rest of the heart, breathing, sweat changes, and the skin and ambient temperature. There is no display, but the three LEDs let you know your "status". At present, Jawbone Up3 accepts reservations for $ 179.99, and the express arrangement will begin within 8 to 9 weeks.
Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless Headphones
The wrist is the most common place to wear fitness tracker, and Jabra Sport Pulse wireless headphones brings together fitness tracking and listening to music. With Dolbi-bit sound technology, this wireless allows users to create and browse the playlist, share music and adjust the sound equalizer. Users can also use headphones to answer the phone.
Jabra's Sport Life application can track heart rate information, while heart rate information is provided by integrated heart rate monitors in headphones. Jabra said that in the accuracy test of the electrocardi, the accuracy of the headphone data reaches 99.2%. This application can also control music. According to the user's parameter setting, this application provides personalized real-time voice training, and the user tests the optimal training purpose of oxygen capacity and adjustment of heart rate levels based on distance, time and heat consumption.
Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless Headset is currently $ 199.
ZENYTIME respiratory sensor - improve health with games
Quick Search Appliances will find a lot of health and fitness applications, but it is designed to reduce new life and power to these applications. It has consciously breatheed through training users, reducing the number of breathing per minute, from an average of 15 times to about 6 times per minute, and complete this training every day. The development of Zenytime games is based on yoga, fitness, sports and health discipline knowledge.
This application runs on iOS and Android systems with a sensitive sensor that is sensitive to breathing, tracks the user's breathing, heart rate, blood oxygen level, and connects the mobile device via Bluetooth. The application's instrument will show statistical scores, game tips and rewards.
Zenytime is currently accepting bookings, priced at $ 79, will be delivered to buyers in 2015.
Petpace intelligence collar
Finally, the appearance is a friend of a long, four legs. The design of the PETPACE smart collar is to let you know which dog or cat belongs to you when the pet evolution is too fast.
The sensor in the collar will measure the body temperature, pulse, breathing frequency, movement level, heat consumable body posture, and measure data will be sent to the corresponding application on the pet master (IOS, Android system can run).
When any organ or behavior parameters of pets begin to clearly deviate from the information of the animal individual and / or the normal indicator of the variety, the application will know through SMS, email, or push notification to let the user know. The monitoring data will also be forwarded to the veterinarian.
The collar is priced at $ 150, but the company's annual subscription plan has increased by $ 180.
These are only a few of the health and fitness related technologies that promote the development of 2014. In 2015, there must be more products, but it is impossible to provide only the most basic exercise demand function - power and perseverance.
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