BACtrack is a company that some of you guys might be
familiar with as they are the ones who make portable breathalyzer devices. This
is ideal if you’re going out for drinks and you want to find out if you’re
within the legal limits of driving yourself home. However if you’d rather not
carry the device around and blow into it all the time, there’s an alternative.
Dubbed the BACtrack Skyn, this is an accessory
designed to be worn together with a smartwatch like the Apple Watch. Basically it
is a monitoring device that tries to measure your blood alcohol levels and
display the information in real-time on your Apple Watch. This makes it more
ideal than a regular breathalyzer in which you will only know the results after
you blow into it, while the Skyn is supposed to be constantly monitoring you.
If you’re wondering why this sounds familiar, it is
because the Skyn was actually announced back in 2016 as part of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Wearable Biosensor Challenge, and now it looks like
the device is ready for consumer usage. The Skyn is expected to be priced at US$ 99 and will be released in summer, making it a relatively inexpensive device
to carry around, especially you’re the sort that drinks pretty regularly.
