It has Bluetooth 4.0 and will connect to your smartphone

Jul 9, 2012 11:50 GMT  ·  By
Liz Dickinson "Alpha" Continuous Heart Monitoring Bluetooth Wrist Watch
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   Liz Dickinson "Alpha" Continuous Heart Monitoring Bluetooth Wrist Watch

As surprising as this may be, the only way to continuously monitor your heart rate was to use a chest strap or a big watch that needed to be accessed by hand in order to show the monitoring results. Well, this is not the case anymore.

Liz Dickinson, the inventor of the MIO heart rate watch listened to suggestions from MIO users and performance athletes and started working on developing a smaller wrist device that will continuously monitor your heart rate with no intervention on your part.

The inventor worked with Philips to perfect the design and now is proud to announce the “Alpha” watch.

Alpha comes with various features like:

“Time display

Continuous heart rate display

In and out of heart rate zone alerts ("Fast-Glance" Tri-Color LED plus audible alarm)

Timer

Last run stats review (total run time; “in zone”, average and max heart rate)”

The watch also comes with Bluetooth 4.0 and is compatible with most smartphone apps that are able to communicate with monitoring devices using Bluetooth.

Alpha can even connect wirelessly to you bike computer and continuously feed in information about your cardio performance.

The new Alpha from Liz Dickinson is clearly smaller than the old MIO and it requires no interaction from the user. Owners must only look at the screen and they’ll be presented the time and their own heart rate.

The mass production is slated for September this year and the first deliveries will take place in November 2012.

The inventor is now waiting for the $100,000 milestone to be reached on kickstarter.

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