Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.
This Friday, he is interested in an invention in sports activity.
A bracelet dissects his physical exercises using a new technology for analyzing movements.
The innovation of the day is concerned with sport and fitness.
A new generation of bracelets and connected watches is coming.
They will be able to dissect our slightest movements and turn into real sports coaches.
Gone are the days of little gadgets that simply counted the steps.
Today, the most advanced bracelets can already detect when you start running, cycling or swimming.
Tomorrow, they can go into details.
You will be told, for example, that you swam 426 meters in the front crawl and 222 meters in the breaststroke.
That you lifted weights 38 times over your head.
He may even correct you: "Be careful! You do not go down low enough when you do push-ups".
It will therefore be much more precise, more useful to improve and it could outright replace a coach.
How does he manage to get this information?
Do you need new sensors?
Not necessarily.
It is always gyroscopes, GPS and motion sensors that give the position in space.
What changes is their miniaturization and especially the quality of interpretation of this information.
We begin to rely on artificial intelligence to deduce the position of the skeleton and recognize very precise exercises such as the jumping jack (when we jump in place by spreading the arms and legs).
All this, only from the movements of a bracelet.
And as the sensors are getting smaller and smaller, we now put them in clothes.
The Wearable X startup offers, for example, Yoga pants that will vibrate on the ankle, knee or hip to help correct posture.
Because we rarely have the chance to have a coach at home who makes sure that we do the right movements.