We’re currently surrounded by fitness bands and wearables, most of which aim to track our fitness, with some opting for GPS and heart rate tracking too, but the one area that’s been sorely missing? Free weights. Enter the Amiigo fitness bracelet, which aims to track your gym workout by itself leaving you to do the heavy lifting. Fancy one of these?
The Amiigo Bracelet is similar to your typical fitness tracker, only this one aims to go further by tracking specific exercises and the reps of your weights too. It comprises of two parts: a bracelet and a shoe clip, both of which are waterproof and can keep up with your typical workouts. The shoe clip tracks your lower body movement, while the bracelet tracks your upper body activities, giving you much more complete and accurate tracking.
The Amiigo designers have promised that it’ll be able to track over one hundred different activities, and it can track data such as exercise type, reps, sets, intensity, speed and duration, all adding up to suit your own fitness goals. It can also capture heart rate, blood oxygen and skin temperature data, for even more data on how your workout affects your body. Even if it doesn’t know what exercise you’re doing, you can teach it too.
Not only does it track your free weight training sessions too, it’ll be able to tell you how well you did, grading you on your form, all thanks to gesture recognition technology. While your running might be grade-A, if your form on your shoulder raises or squats is slightly off, the Amiigo will inform you of your missteps, giving you a lower grade. The smartphone app for your iPhone or Android blower will also give you back all the feedback you need to improve, and you can compete against your friends too – all to help make this tracker the ultimate gym workout buddy.
When you’re not in the gym, the Amiigo also acts as a regular tracker, such as counting your steps, tracking your calories burned, and letting you know how you’ve slept, making for one complete tracking bracelet. If you’re interested in grabbing one, you’ve still got a little bit of time to wait though: while the Amiigo smashed its crowd funding goal on Indiegogo back in 2012 and is shipping out some hardware to early backers, it won’t be shipping out pre-orders until next month – and some reports say that it won’t be available until January. For $179 (£106) though, it does look great, and we know we can’t wait for it, as it looks to be the ultimate fitness gadget for both inside and outside the gym.
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