Weight issues are a serious problem all around the world and watching our weight can give some of us a lot of headaches. Diets, exercising, it seems that we’re spending plenty of time doing something or just thinking about our weight. Fortunately for us, there are a lot of apps out there that want to help us in this domain. The latest in wearable fitness tech is the GoBe wearable which tracks the calories we burn and consume by measuring the glucose level in our blood cells.
GoBe has been marketed by the Healbe Corporation as an “original 100% automatic body manager” and it helps us track our caloric intake, hydration, the calories we burn, stress and sleeping levels. The new product has created a lot of buzz on Indiegogo, the famous crowdfunding platform.
GoBe app was patented by the Healbe technology called FLOW and it features three sensors that calculate the calories we consume, using our skin to read the glucose in our cells. Another feature is the heart rate monitoring and the calorie tracker. It tracks the amount of calories we burn while walking, exercising or just making dinner.
GoBe Wearable connectivity
The GoBE wearable runs through Bluetooth and you can see your results either with an Android or iOS wearable or by going on the Healbe portal.
The funds that will be raised through Indiegogo will be put into the making of the GoBe wearable. Right now there is only a prototype of this wearable. The funds raising campaign will end on April 15 and the product is expected to be ready in June 2014.
GoBe is the latest in wearable fitness technology and is expected to grow to $5.8 billion in sales by 2018, according to a study made public by Transparency Market Research.
Other health wearable devices that are in the making right now is the Atlas which tracks and identifies our activities and calculates the calories we burn every day. The Atlas app is also in the middle of an Indiegogo fund raising campaign.