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MAINSTREAMDECLINING EMERGINGDATA THAT’S MORE THAN SKIN DEEP
Capturing movement is only a small fraction of the
data available to understand the human body. The
real insights lie beneath the skin, at the
microbiological level, where the body’s first signs of
ailment and disease occur. To sense these issues,
device makers are beginning to release next
generation sensing platforms – breath sensors and
impedance devices – that provide users with a
particle-level view of his/hers body composition.
CES 2016 TRENDS RECAP
MINT BREATHOMETER
Mint is a portable breath quality and hydration
detection product.
MYBIODY BALANCE
The MyBiody is a handheld impedance device
that runs a gentle current through the body to
measure body fat, muscle mass and hydration.
LEVL
LEVL measures acetone in the breath, using
a nano-sensor, to reveal when a user has
reached a fat burning state during exercise
PLAYTABASE REEMO
Reemo enables seniors to control their
surroundings using simple gestures, while
providing caretakers with remote insights
into the person’s well-being.
MAINSTREAMDECLINING EMERGINGCONNECTED US for the REST OF US
At the dawn of Quantified Self movement a host of
devices were created to show to 25 to 35-year-old,
Bay Area technocrats just how much (or little) they
were moving. As the category matures, other
products have been introduced to monitor the health
and wellbeing of the oldest and youngest among us,
whose fragility has made a compelling use case for
how these products can be used to save lives.
EMFIT SAFEBED
The SafeBed is a monitor placed beneath a
mattress to detect heartbeat, breathing and a
person’s presence on or absence from a bed.
BLOOM BELLI
Belli is a smart device worn during the third
trimester to track a woman’s contractions, as
she prepares for the big day.
CES 2016 TRENDS RECAP
MAINSTREAMDECLINING EMERGINGYOUR TECHNOLOGY is SHOWING
With wearables, as in real estate, it’s all about loca-
tion, location, location. In the early days of fitness
tracking, the electronics used to capture our activi-
ties landed on the wrist because it was fun to show
off a new gadget, and we didn’t have anywhere else
to put it. But with advances in miniaturization and
flexible materials, the future of the category is
moving to less ostentatious locations – in our shirts,
in our shoes and hidden within our jewelry.
MISFIT RAYSENSORIA SPORTS BRAUNDER ARMOUR GEMINI 2s
The Gemini 2 has an embedded chip that tracks a
runner’s speed, distance and cadence without
requiring the user to carry a smartphone.
The Sensoria Fitness Smart Sports Bra provides
accurate and consistent heart rate monitoring
without the hassle of wearing a strap.
Misfit’s newest wearable – Ray – can be worn
on the wrist or around the neck, and is meant
to stylishly pair with the user’s wardrobe.
CES 2016 TRENDS RECAP
DIETSENSOR, ScIO
MAINSTREAMDECLINING EMERGINGYOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
NIMA BY 6SENSOR LABS HIDRATE SPARK
CES 2016 TRENDS RECAP
In Worrell’s research, “eating healthy” is the most
common response to what does being healthy mean
to you? We all know we need to do it, but how, what,
when and why remains unclear. On top of that, the
gadgets we use to stay fit only focus on calories
burned, providing little to no feedback on what is
being consumed. New products, revealed at CES
2016, are solving for the other side of the equation,
exposing new insights on the food and liquids going
into our bodies.
Nima’s one-time-use capsules and discrete
food-tester reveal potentially dangerous food
allergens to a user within two minutes of sampling.
The Spark keeps track of how much water you
drink, sending reminders to help you stay
appropriately hydrated.
SCiO uses spectrometry to analyze the chemical
makeup of your food, which is automatically ported
to a diet-coaching app.
MAINSTREAMDECLINING EMERGINGCONNECTED COACHING
KUAI BIOMETRIC HEADPHONESUNDER ARMOUR COGNITIVE COACHING
CES 2016 TRENDS RECAP
Fitness goals based on population averages are
useful to no one. Our bodies are different, our goals
are different and therefore the needs we require of
our wearable technologies are unique to each user.
Thankfully, advances in user interface design and
artificial intelligence have ushered in a new era of
personalized coaching with the power to deliver
course-correcting insights to a user in real time.
IBM Watson’s Cognitive Coaching System
will provide Under Armour’s users with
timely, evidence-based coaching based
on other users “like you.”
Kuai’s headphones coach users during their
exercise with live voice feedback and
professional training plans.
ORCAM MYEYE
OrCam leverages the latest advances in
computer vision and machine learning to help
the vision impaired make sense of the faces
and spaces around them, in real time.
Is there anything we missed?
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