A platform to create your own wearables

February 29, 2020

zGlue is a platform that wants to inspire you to imagine your own wearables. Today, these smart health connected objects rely on miniaturization. The aim of this trend: to improve the comfort of these products.

With zGlue, creating wearables will no longer be the prerogative of large companies or startups. The platform unveiled zOrigin. zOrigin offers a reference design of a wearable measuring 11 x 28 mm which can be used as it is or transformed into other products.

zGlue - A platform to create your own wearables

zOrigin is especially great for creating alert buttons, smart jewelry, shoe soles and fitness trackers. Sonny Vu, former CEO and founder of Misfit, is one of zGlue's investors and advisers. He’s someone who knows the clothing industry very well but also the tracker industry. Suffice to say that its presence in the vicinity of this company is a pretty good sign.

The zOrigin is equipped with sensors and doo-dads, including an ARM Cortex M0 processor, a Bluetooth LE sensor, an accelerometer, a heart rate monitoring, a temperature sensor, an LED, a vibration motor and a 25mAh battery . Everything is packaged in a 3D printed case. A USB docking station is also available. Finally, the brand obviously provides an SDK and documentation. In short, a turnkey product. It remains to work your imagination.

If you want to get started and create your own wearable, know that zOrigin will be available from $ 49. Pre-orders are already open and delivery of the product is scheduled for next August.

So, according to you, does the future of smart health connected objects and in particular wearables lie in the individual design of your own gadget? Should large high tech companies be wary of this type of initiative? Only the future will tell us !