Automatic Calorie Intake Tracking Would Be A Holy Grail

TECH HIVE - Mar 24 - The “calorie in” measurement remains a wearables industry challenge. Many activity-tracking wristbands integrate food-logging tools but these are too time-consuming and clumsy. Airo Health announced a wristband called AIRO that uses spectroscopic sensors to divine calorie intake through the surface of one’s skin. The product development continues apace. And then there’s GoBe, a wristband that uses a rudimentary impedance sensor to measure fluid levels in body tissue. This fluid-level data is then married to an “advanced algorithm” to “calculate caloric intake through your skin, by reading the amount of glucose in your cells.” Experts say it's all hokum.

by Jon Phillips
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