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Intelligent Drinking Cup May Be the Best Smart Device Created in Years

June 13, 2014 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

intelligent drinking cup We have talked in the past about smart devices that help us stay fit and monitor our health status, but today we are overwhelmed with excitement at the news related to an intelligent drinking cup.

Some healthy gadgets we presented you with in the past had the power to make us keep smoking at bay or track our fitness levels. This new gadget, named the Vessyl smart cup, does a bit of everything, and then some.

Let’s see a full and detailed description of the cup and highlight its main advantages:

[The cup is] a slim, slightly hefty thermos-looking receptacle — will not only identify and track what you drink and how much of it, but can do so on the fly as it senses the liquid type and breaks it down to its most vital components as soon as it interacts with the cup’s sensor-filled interior. The ultimate utility with Vessyl is not to provide novelty, but to transform how we consume every ounce of liquid throughout the day. Caffeine and sugar amounts, alongside calorie count and a proprietary metric for hydration called Pryme, are tracked through an app on your phone, and bits of that information are also displayed on a screen embedded within the cup itself.

And there is more! The intelligent drinking cup actually monitors your hydration levels due to its powerful sensors. Let’s say you had your morning glass of water. The cup will light up telling you are hydrated within normal levels. At some point in the day, the light bar on the side of the cup will start to fade down, to alert you it’s time to start hydrating again.

The intelligent drinking cup developed by American start – up Mark One is a very useful device for people wanting to lose weight, as it monitors the calories intake of every liquid they sip from the Vessyl. If you have a coffee addiction, the cup will also alert you when you just pumped too much caffeine into your system. The cup also can tell Coca Cola from Pepsi and it can also identify alcoholic beverages, like beer or wine.

Considering many people are paying attention to what they eat and less attention to what they drink, the Vessyl smart cup, working perfectly together with your iPhone, will be the best friend you will have next time you decide between a sip of wine or an orange fresh juice.

You aren’t yet able to buy the intelligent drinking cup, as it is not yet on the market. The manufacturers allow instead a pre – order period to raise the money necessary to produce and deliver the first series of the Vessyl. You can invest in your health by spending $99 pre – ordering the cup now, or wait until next year to have it at its full price of $199. So far, users seeing the Vessyl presentation were pretty amazed with its abilities and voted in favor of its mass production.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: intelligent drinking cup, smart devices

The Quitbit Smart Lighter Helps You Keep Your Smoking Habits at Bay

May 15, 2014 By Jack M. Robinson 1 Comment

quitbitSmoking cigarettes is dangerous and the world is pushing forward in quitting the habit, even if it is harder than one thinks. There are a lot of alternative methods to reduce the number of coffin – nails per day or to completely break free from the addiction, but an extra hand is always welcomed.

Will power, patience, motivation and horrific medical statistics seem to help at some point. But since we spent the last days talking about smart devices, we can’t overlook the latest news regarding interesting smoking – related gadgets that are about to become a reality.

Smokers, meet the Quitbit smart lighter! This device is a digital lighter that keeps track of your cigarette smoking and even limits the number of cigarettes you have per day. The ingenious device is still in its project phase, as it needs Kickstarter funding to turn from theory into an actual product.

How does the Quitbit smart lighter work?

According to the tech reviewers who covered the subject,

You can program the device to allow only a certain number of cigarettes per day at certain intervals. If you go to light another but have reached your limit for that day or time period, it simply won’t work. The $69 device uses a heating element similar to that of a car lighter. It’s equipped with a sensor technology that logs how long it’s being used. It’ll log your usage only if it meets a certain trigger, which is currently rounded out at around 2½ seconds. It’ll also log only one use in the interval of three minutes. This enables it to track only your smoking. So even if you share it with friends or play with it, you won’t have to worry that you’re screwing with the program.

quitbit smart lighterAnother important aspect about the Quitbit smart lighter is that it really is a smart device: it displays your smoking routine into an easy – to – read screen, showing you how many cigarettes you had that day and how much time has passed since your last one.

It is supposed to help you become more aware about the dangers you expose yourself to, as it can’t help you quit smoking per se. And if the statistics don’t kick you right in the habit, the financial data might: the lighter also monitors how much money you’ve saved as you’re cutting back on cigarettes. If this isn’t a good incentive, we don’t know what is.

The Quitbit smart lighter also connects to your iOS or Android phone and delivers the statistics to your handset. If you misplace it, the phone can also help you find it, as it tracks its location.

All in all, the Quitbit looks like a fun gadget to have around. It won’t replace nicotine patches and e-cigarettes, but at least it will give you a clear picture of your addiction.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Quitbit, smart devices

New Meme Smartglasses May Save Your Life

May 14, 2014 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

meme smartglasses Recently we presented you with Memi, the smartbracelet for women. If you remember, we said that the beautifully designed piece of jewelry was meant to alert a woman every time her smartphone rings or receives messages in the purse or in another room in the house.

Now, the smart devices family becomes richer with a new member: the new Meme smartglasses, a Bluetooth – powered wearable gadget that gives us a heads – up every time we are about to fall asleep. Why is such device interesting? Well, if you think about the number of car accidents caused by drivers who fell asleep for a second behind the wheel, you surely realize that such device may actually prevent a lot of tragic accidents and save peoples’ lives.

There is a fun side to the Meme smartglasses as well: reviewers insist on college students never falling asleep during courses and seminars and over-worked professionals never falling asleep during meetings. On a more serious note, the new Meme smartglasses are a healthy – oriented device, as they warn us when we are exhausted, urging us to take a break and not push it too far.

How do the Meme Smartglasses actually work?

According to the people from Endgadget,

The Bluetooth wearable includes both eye and motion sensors that can tell when you’re close to nodding off. If it gets to that point, a companion smartphone app will give you a heads-up. The eyewear is useful even when you’re fully alert, as it can handle basic fitness duties like step counting and calorie tracking.

As you see, the wearable piece of tech may prove itself very useful in the future. So far, everything we know about manufacturing and pricing is that the new Meme smartglasses are produced in Japan by JINS. The company will start delivering three smartglasses models at a national level, with prices ranging from $685 to $979 (according to present currency convertors). Unfortunately, there is no official word on when and how the glasses will be exported to the United States.

In Japan they are set to be released in the spring of 2015 and U.S. tech enthusiasts already expressed their support for the new Meme smartglasses. Why? Well, let’s put it this way: they don’t look as freaky as the Google Glass and they are actually more useful to our lives than many other wearable gadgets on the market. If you take into account the sunglasses version of the Meme, you might be waiting for the best deal ever in terms of futuristic devices. Stay tuned to the news, as we will come back when we find out more about these awesome spectacles.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: smart devices, wearables

The MEMI Smartbracelet Combines Fashion, Technology, and Function

May 8, 2014 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

memi smartbraceletPerhaps “smartbracelet” is not a term your regular word processor recognizes or can find synonyms to. However, you’d better get used to it quickly, especially if you are a woman. Presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley yesterday, the MEMI smartbracelet will soon make its entrance on the market, as one of those women-targeted gadgets that go beyond fashion. Without a doubt, MEMI is also incredibly useful, as it is able to solve some of the issues the male-driven tech world hadn’t been able to solve thus far. For instance, as most women can tell you, they wear purses and are used to carrying their cell phones in said purses.

Sure, you may be able to find women who prefer shoving their large, expensive smartphones in the pockets of their jeans, but they’re more of an exception, really. So, from a woman’s point of view, keeping one’s cell phone in one’s purse is the safest way to carry it around. Also, what about noisy, crowded places? It often happens that you don’t hear your phone ring or receiving text messages. In order to solve this apparently banal issue (but, oh, so important for those not obsessed with checking their phones every other two minutes), the MEMI smartbracelet simply alerts the woman wearing it that there is communication activity going on with her phone, by subtly vibrating around her wrist.

Here’s what Sarah Perez, has to say about the gadget in her coverage for TechCrunch. Incidentally, Perez wanted to buy the device right away, on the spot. She also got the opportunity to talk to the woman behind this ingenious project – Margaux Guerard.

[quote]The best thing about the MEMI bracelet […] is that it doesn’t look like a “wearable device.” It looks like jewelry. It’s a tad heavier than a similarly-styled bracelet I have at home, but the weight, explains Guerard, is something they’ve been experimenting with. She says that when testing prior, lighter versions, some of the feedback they received from women was that bracelets that were too light felt “cheap.” So the MEMI, which will be available in gold and silver, is designed with aesthetics in mind. It’s the kind of thing you might buy for yourself anyway, even if it didn’t come with its included smarts. And when someone sees the bracelet dangling on your wrist, they don’t immediately know it’s a device. Which is cool.[/quote]

The MEMI smartbracelet kills two birds with one stone: it offers women a way of keeping their phones safely tucked away in their purses, but also allows them to be reachable. To boot, it elegantly solves the style issue: most wearable gadgets currently on the market are impossible to wear with an evening dress or a cocktail party outfit. The MEMI smartbracelet, although functionally limited, in comparison with smartwatches and other futuristic devices, is a great idea. It will be available for pre-orders for $150, which is quite a good price for a hi-tech style accessory.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: MEMI smartbracelet, smart devices, wearables

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