sweat sensor technology

A product shot of the Gx Sweat Patch and Gx App

Gatorade's Gx Sweat Patch delivers hydration, fitness guidance to athletes' phones

By Dave Muoio 03:09 pm March 1, 2021

Sports drink vendor Gatorade is the latest to take a run at the connected fitness consumer. The PepsiCo brand launched today a sweat-tracking wearable patch and accompanying fitness monitoring app platform designed to help athletes track their workouts, hydration, salt concentration and other fitness-relevant metrics. It's a concept that the brand first teased nearly five years ago before...

Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers develop wearable sweat sensor as diagnostic tool

By Heather Mack 05:46 pm April 18, 2017

There’s been a lot of talk about sweat-centric technology, with hopeful researchers and digital health entrepreneurs citing the potential for wearables that measure the salty substance to offer up a bevy of biometric insights ranging from athletic performance to glucose monitoring. But the latest scientific undertaking suggests sweat-sensing wearables could go much further: diagnosing disease. In...