While everyone has already heard the high and low of fitness trackers for example, the IOFIT smartshoe is probably the first of its kind and not something you saw coming. The IOFIT is a wearable tech item, you could say, and one that takes its title as literally as you can. But it doesn’t have the exact same functionality as the fitness trackers I mentioned earlier, even though its sole purpose is fitness-related.
IOFIT was designed by Salted Venture, a Samsung Electronics-supported startup company, that believed that there is a huge amount of trackers out there that make use of only a limited amount of sensors in order to track information. Instead, all the specifics of running or pacing usually get missed out on because nobody attempts to track them.
However, with the help of the technology that was put into the IOFIT, you don’t get to see just how many steps you took. You get to see valuable information about your body posture, your balance as well as how to improve your fitness routine and more specific things such as how to improve your golf swings too.
Employing the help of force plates, something that you may have also heard of when talking about things such as posture rehabilitation equipment, the IOFIT shoe tried to achieve several things by designing a piece of wearable tech that is both cost effective and portable – and the second of the two if pretty much inbuilt.
By integrating tracking methods into a piece of apparel that we always wear regardless, the IOFIT smartshoe ends up having so much more utility packed into it than most other fitness trackers. There has always been a problem with the mere concept of wearable tech that goes on your arm for example. Even if it was about tracking the number of daily steps you take. Using different trackers at the same time would result in data inconsistencies simply because of the way they track data while clinging to your arm for example – which may not be an accurate representation of your real movements.
However, the main focus of the IOFIT is not counting your steps and calorie intake for the day. Instead, it gives you insightful information regarding the way you use your body in different kinds of fitness and how you can improve and coach yourself when it comes to it. Also, because all of the data your IOFIT records can be shared via your mobile device, you can forward it to trainers regardless of where they are.
The IOFIT smart shoe will be showcased at MWC starting with February 22nd to February 26th.
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