Feel – The high-tech mood ring for your wrist

A new wearable called Feel wants to make sure you forget about fitness wearables and rather track your emotions!

Although Feel doesn’t change colours like your traditional mood ring, the device is able to read your current emotional state and aims to help you lower your stress levels. It encourages you to take deep breaths, listen to music or do yoga to relax.

So how does it work? Feel connects to your phone via Bluetooth to give you real time information about how you’re feeling. On the inside of the wristband, there are four sensors that measure and track your skin temperature, blood volume, pulse and galvanic skin response.

The look of the Feel wristband is pretty low key and sleek, it kind of looks like a high-tech slap bracelet from back in the day, however it is flexible to fit any wrists.

By combining biometric measurements with your movement to get a gauge on your activity level, Feel takes the collected data and produces a visual representation on your phone. You can even take a look at your whole day in the form of a graph and see what stress levels are peaking at what your mood was at different times of the day.

In extreme cases, such as if the wristband detects high levels of anger when you’re driving, the wristband will give you a real time alert in the form of a vibration, which can alert you to calm down.

In the future, Feel could be extremely helpful for therapeutic and mental healthcare professionals.

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