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a smart health smart health connected object to breathe better

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Spire has just announced the launch of pre-orders for its activity sensor, which detects your breathing and deduces your state of mind. The goal: to help you com-stress or regain your concentration. Promising.

Spire is the kind of smart health smart health connected object we love at Stuffi. It doesn’t just capture your steps and movements, like most activity sensors on the market. It will help you be more relaxed and more productive. It just clips on the belt or on the bra and detects your breathing. A journalist from TechCrunch personally knows the founder of Spiers who is a doctor in "augmented self" in Standford. His temperament was more of the blood type and hyperactive. The Spire has helped him become much more relaxed. In any case, this was what the journalist noticed when they met.

His research at Microsoft, Google and then in the laboratory on relaxing technologies in Standford has always focused on the impact of breathing on our state of mind / mood. Neema Moraveji wants to help people realize that breathing is a simple way to influence your state of mind. After meeting with his partner Jonathan Palley, they joined the Standford accelerator for startups and then raised their first fundraising, to the tune of $ 1.5 million, to develop their sensor.

Spire Wireless Charger

The price of the sensor, available in September, will be $ 150. Those who choose to pre-order benefit froma reduction which brings the price of the Spire down to $ 109.

The sensor does not have no button and fits in the palm of your hand. A metal clip allows to hang it on the belt or on the bra (these two places allow to capture the movements of the body, and therefore the breathing). It is smart health connected to the smartphone in Bluetooth Low Energy. It also measures the number of steps, intensity of physical activity, and position (sitting, standing, lying). It can, for example, warn you if you have been sitting for too long and advise you to stretch your legs.

To measure breathing, it detects the frequency and amplitude of your breaths / exhalations. The data is retranscribed in near real time on the smartphone and the color of the application changes according to your state:

  • Red : stress

  • Purple : concentrated

  • Green : normal state

You can adjust the notifications as you wish. If you breathe too much, or not enough, the app can guide you on a set pace and help improve your state of mind. The battery lasts a week and recharges wirelessly.

Only apparent defect: given its shape, the Spire sensor does not seem very comfortable to wear. What do you think of this new sensor, which stands out from all that we see on the market? Feel free to give your opinion in the comments.

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