Remember when your phone seemed neat because it could actually tell you where you were on a map? That seems pretty quaint now that the gyroscopes and compasses and magic location beetles [1] not only tell our photons where they are, but how they’re moving and even which direction they’re pointed in.
And now that same quantum leap is about to happen in the world of personal fitness trackers. Oh boy.
It’s called the LIT, and it packs more sensors than a really sensitive sensing box. Inside the shock-resistant, waterproof shell there’s a 6-axis sensor, a gyroscope to “sense g-force,” and a four-day-life rechargeable battery.
Clip it on or buckle it to your wrist and it’ll record your steps and so on, just like a FitBit. But it will also monitor more extreme sports: Moto, skateboarding, snowboarding… Anything that involves lots of movement, lots of air and lots of g-force.
But who cares about a watch (and companion app, connected via Bluetooth 4) if it just records what you do? Nobody, that’s who. So there’s a sharing aspect to the whole thing: Once you have measured how much air you got, or how many spins you did before you bailed on the half pipe (you pussy) or how many Gs you pulled and so on, you can share and show off your stats with your friends.
It’s a lot like playing a Tony Hawk(s) [2] game on the NintendoStation, racking up points for tricks, skills and tactics, only in real life.
The LIT is an Indiegogo project, and the minimum buy in is $129, with the full retail price set at $149 if and when it actually becomes real (NB the pictures here are renders, not actual product shots). Interested? Of course not – you’re too busy getting rad.
Source: NZNLabs
Thanks: Tommy!
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These may not actually be real. ↩
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The skating game, not the dragging-a-fridge-around-Ireland game. ↩
