This Ex-bose Engineer Just Launched Smart Earrings That Actually Look Like Jewelry

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Lumia Health launches nan Lumia 2 smart earrings.
• They way humor flow, exercise, sleep, and more.
• The smart earrings were developed by an ex-Bose engineer.

Your jewelry box's contents are getting smarter. First we had smartwatches, past we sewage smart rings, and, aft today's announcement of Lumia 2, we're getting smart earrings -- accessories that way humor flow, exercise, and sleep.

Ditches nan med-techy look

The second-generation smart earrings launched connected Tuesday. 

Initially developed for those pinch agelong COVID aliases POTS looking to way humor flow, CEO and laminitis Daniel Lee is expanding his smart earrings done nan second-gen product, built for a wider, wide audience. The Lumia 2 ditches nan med-techy look of its first procreation for a stylish, light, and discreet wellness locator disguised arsenic an earring.

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Lee is simply a erstwhile Bose technologist who led nan engineering of its famed sleepbuds, and he, successful his ain words, "knows really to put mini things successful people's ears for a agelong time," he told maine successful an exclusive interview. After Lee's begetter collapsed respective ribs erstwhile he fainted owed to a deficiency of humor flow, he wondered really to create a instrumentality that measured that successful nan ear.

So Lee went to respective aesculapian institutions to study conditions for illustration agelong COVID and POTS. What he saw was that women were much apt to travel successful reporting these conditions. "There's a large cohort of younger women pinch POTS and agelong COVID that are really being deed by this hard, and they're overmuch much eager to spell to nan doctor," Lee says. There, nan thought for an unobtrusive, discreet wearable chiefly designed for women pinch agelong COVID and POTS was born.

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In development, Lee learned that humor travel impacts each sorts of things, from power and attraction to intelligence clarity. 

Depending connected nan somesthesia of a room, nan measurement personification is sitting successful a chair, aliases really overmuch h2o they're drinking, humor travel -- and, pinch it, power and attraction -- tin fluctuate. By search humor travel passim nan day, group tin optimize their attraction astatine activity aliases their power levels disconnected nan clock. One of nan premier places to measurement humor travel successful nan assemblage is, successful fact, nan ear.

Customize nan beforehand of nan earring

The sensor is packed onto nan backmost of nan near earring and chiefly tracks humor travel but besides each nan accustomed wellness wearables biomarkers, for illustration bosom complaint and bosom complaint variability. That intends you tin customize nan beforehand of nan earring pinch each sorts of fronts -- not only nan ones Lumia sells.

Lumia's existent earring lineup includes huggie hoops, cuffs, and shot studs offered successful gold, silver, and clear finishes.

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Unlike a smart ringing aliases smartwatch that's perpetually moving astatine nan whims of a engaged hand, Lee says it's harder to move -- and aggravate nan information seizure -- of a smart earring. During our interview, Lee held up his 2 arms, which were covered successful smart wearables for illustration a Whoop band, a smartwatch, and a smart ring. "This," he glances astatine his wrist, "is precious existent estate."

An earring, connected nan different hand, is little obtrusive. Plus, dissimilar smart rings, which group person to return disconnected for weight training owed to nan risks of degloving, smart earrings tin beryllium worn continuously nary matter nan activity.

Availability

The Lumia 2 comes pinch a 5 to eight-day artillery life and retails for $250, positive an further $10 a period rank that presently guarantees Lumia 1 users caller hardware upgrades, alongside nan accustomed package updates and privateness protocols. 

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Visit Lumia's website to reserve a spot successful statement for nan caller product.