GoKawiilWearables like smartwatches and smart rings can be bulky, making them difficult to wear 24/7. That's a gap that smart earring creator Lumia Health hopes to fill with the Lumia 2 device, which was originally created in collaboration with researchers at Johns Hopkins, Duke and Harvard to assist patients with chronic blood flow disorders.
The company calls the Lumia 2 smart earrings the world's smallest wellness wearable. It's an earring back-like device about the size of a coffee bean that houses a second-generation PreciseLight sensor, processors, a battery and additional health sensors.
On Tuesday, the Lumia 2 earrings launched on Kickstarter, earning more than $800,000, which is over 80 times the original goal of $10,000.
What Lumia 2 tracks
Weighing less than 1 gram and being five times smaller than AirPods, miniaturized biosensing technology allows the Lumia 2 smart earrings to track over 20 health metrics, including sleep, activity (steps, calories and active minutes), readiness, the menstrual cycle, temperature, heart rate and heart rate variability, blood oxygen (SpO2) and blood flow. The latter is what inspired the creation of Lumia Health.
"Six years ago, my father fell and broke six ribs because not enough blood flow was getting to his head," Daniel Lee, co-founder and CEO of Lumia Health, said in a Kickstarter video. "We should be able to measure blood flow in real time, so we can avoid some of these catastrophic injuries."
Event Tagging is also available, so you can log your activities and behaviors, such as caffeine intake, meditation and travel.
All of this will be available in the accompanying app, which is iOS- and Android-compatible with an iPhone SE (second generation) or later, iOS 17 or later and Android 11 or later, with Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 or later.
Track sleep, blood flow, heart rate, energy and more with Lumia 2. Lumia
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