Healbe GoBe
One such controversial project on the
Indiegogo was the HealBe’s GoBe tracker, which promises to automatically track
your food intake and thus calories.
After raising a million dollar
crowdfunding, company did experience some delay, but now a year into since
introducing their first product the small-time brand has made the GoBe tracker
available to their backers.
The GoBe
is no available on the retail shelves and can be purchased at a price of US$ 299
from company’s online store. The company claims that they’re the first to
introduce a working model that can truly track the calorie count without any
guesswork or a manual log work. Currently, on most fitness tracker you have to
log your food intake in order to learn how much calorie you have taken, and
calculating calorie in the current generation of activity tracker is an
algorithm and work of accelerometer.
The GoBe tracker is supposedly able to
track all activities, calories taken, calories burned, heart rate and sleep
tracking through your skin. Not just that it also claims to track stress and
hydration levels as well. If what company says is true, and that’s a big IF,
then this could be a game changer for the wearable industry. The HealBe FLOW
Technology is used on this band, which is company’s trademarked technology
combining the measurements from pressure, accelerometer and impedance sensor to
show you more accurate calories consumed.
The battery on this thing is supposed to
last up to three days on a single charge with an average usage. Interestingly,
it shouldn’t take much longer than an hour to charge from zero to hundred. The
device would be waterproof up to 3 meters, the company quotes that it’s fine to
take it to shower or even for a swim.
And of course, there is an app to sync
up all data from the tracker to the smartphones using a Bluetooth connection.
The Body Manager app lets you have access to all the health data tracked by the
activity tracker, from calories intake and burn to workout data and how much
quality sleep you have been getting or not. There is a Black edition of the
smartwatch like tracker, which is available for the price of US$ 319.
