These 6 wearables will keep you healthy

Incorporating technology into our lives makes daily activities easier. While we’ve seen a number of fitness activity trackers that monitor heart rate, count steps, and calories burned, these wearables take health technology to the next level. Let’s take a look at the six devices that promote a greener world and could even save your life.

A contact lens that checks your blood sugar

Developed by the Google X lab, this smart contact lens can monitor the health of people with chronic diabetes. The device uses a tiny wireless chip and sensor to measure blood glucose levels once per second, and could replace other types of blood glucose-monitoring systems, ultimately making the disease easier to manage.

Sweat-diverting headband tracks your vitals

Spree Smart Headband tracks exercise performance and vitals while keeping the sweat out of your eyes. Combined with user-inputted data about age, sex, weight, and height, the device tracks the user’s motion, heart rate, and body temperate, providing accurate results. For those not keen on wearing a smart headband, it can also be worn as an armband, reading the same statistics or carried in your pocket to track motion only.

Air-cleaning ‘tree’ wearable for your wrist

The Hand Tree bracelet by Alexandr Kostin allows you to give off clean air from your wrist as you travel. Designed in the Electrolux Design Lab, a global competition for design and technology students, the device controls the quality of the air by filtering in smoke, pollution, dust, and other harmful gases, and breathing out cleaner air. The wearable is a small filter, inspired by trees and plants, that if worn by multiple people can act as an entire forest to clear the air.

Helmet with life-saving sensor

ICEdot has created the ICE (In Case of Emergency) Crash Sensor, a miniature clip-mounted device that fits on your helmet, and notifies emergency services if it detects a significant impact. The device is paired with your smartphone through an app, which sounds an alarm and initiates an emergency countdown if it detects motion, changes in forces, and impacts that may be out of the ordinary. Unless the countdown is stopped, the app will notify your emergency contacts and send GPS coordinates so appropriate medical attention can be taken.

A wristband that shocks healthy habits into you

While some people are motivated by tracking steps or hiding junk food, others may be encouraged by an electric shock. The Pavlok wristband is the latest in activity trackers that comes with a more taint purpose – shocking you into healthier behaviors. If you wake up too late, skip working out, or spend too much time on Facebook, prepare to experience a jolt of electric current to your wrist. Developed by Maneesh Sethi, whose premise is: pain motivates you into action, the Pavlok wristband is synced via Bluetooth to a smartphone app and is expected to be available at retail for $250.

Smart workout clothing that tracks your health

If you forget your activity tracker band, you can integrate the sensors right into your workout shirt for accurate biometrics monitoring with OMSignal’s Biometric Smartwear. The device tracks and monitors your heart rate, breathing, and steps during your workout. You can even wear the shirt when you are not working out and it will measure your health, weight, activity, help your posture, and tell you when to relax. Data is routed through a small black box you plug into the shirt, which transmits information through a smart app.

Which one of these wearables will you be investing on to keep you on track?

Source: Engadget