Gatorade Gx Bottle, Blue, For use with Gatorade Gx Pods, 30 Ounces

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In practical terms, this meant something that could take sweat samples, ideally with no effort from the athlete, then talk to the cloud about what it found. The lighter the better; the simpler the better. A wearable device was one candidate, but what about something thin and flexible, like a patch or Band-Aid? A company called Epicore Biosystems was doing fascinating things with “skin-like wearable microfluidic solutions that are capable of non-invasively measuring sweat biomarkers, skin health, and physiology, in-real time.” GSSI partnered with them on the project. Of the failures, 1 patch did not adhere to the skin properly and half peeled off during the session, so the data from that one may be questionable. 1 patch failed to scan, despite repeated attempts, so did not return any data. Air bubbles were present in the dye channel for sweat rate and sodium concentration. The other 2 failed to collect enough sweat to scan properly at all, despite total measured sweat losses of ~0.4l during indoor cycling sessions (both of these were on the same athlete during separate sessions). Your car talks to your smartphone, your banking app asks distant servers for information and verification, and whatever movies you’re watching or music you’re listening to, it’s just the last link in a global chain of storage, compression, and streaming technology. Offloading technically-demanding tasks to distributed systems is so common, and works so well, that it’s easy to forget that until recently, most devices had to do everything themselves. Given that measuring your sweat rate by weighing yourself before and after exercise is neither difficult nor expensive and is likely more reliable (often still considered the 'gold standard' for fluid loss measurement in lab based testing), perhaps it should remain the serious athletes' go-to method for collecting sweat rate data anyway? Something to consider if understanding your sweat rate is the primary reason you're considering buying some Gx Sweat Patches. The hydration recommendations in the app I don't know if you live in the USA or not, but a good 60% of its citizens are generally in poor health, have poor eating habits, have poor drinking habits, poor fitness habits, poor financial habits, and are in a continuous state of mental and physical stress. And they know it. So, there are a gazillion "improve your life" type products, with 99.9% of them being scams.

In many ways, Epicore’s microfluidic patches offered a perfect solution: thin, light, mass-producible, and able to detect a wide variety of compounds. It wasn’t feasible to embed processors or transmitters in them though, so the team had to look at other ways of displaying and communicating data. I think the obsession started with the "8 glasses of water" rule of thumb some 70 years ago, or more. That was probably some sort of doctor's advice, not serious advice or perhaps just a generalization, that made it through the lens of American media and product marketing and was turned into some sort of easy to remember drinking advice, a story everyone knows.Baker, L. B. et al. Sweating rate and sweat chloride concentration of elite male basketball players measured with a wearable microfluidic device versus the standard absorbent patch method. Int. J. Sport Nutr. Exerc. Metab. 27, 342–349 (2022). Expand the user base among different athlete cohorts: youth, high school, forever, 30-plus, endurance, marathon, ironman, competitive athletes, female teens, soccer moms, & thirsty kids This is increasingly the way new technology comes into the world, not with a single super-advanced gadget, but with dozens of devices, systems, and data sets interacting in meticulously designed ways, to produce something magical. It’s a ridiculous amount of work behind the scenes, often by partners working in diverse fields (like sports medicine, interaction design, and microfluidics, for example). The Gx Sweat Patch’s design and mode of operation create a route for real-time analysis at a fraction of the cost of lab-based sweat analysis. To enable real-time analytics, the device exploits robust colorimetric assays and chemical reagents that can withstand a broad range of extreme temperatures, humidity and shelf-storage conditions (−20 °C to 65 °C). Moreover, the signal processing operations use a smartphone without requiring sophisticated electronic components onboard the patch. This architecture highlights the utility of smartphones for real-time colorimetric analysis and the value of a ruggedized microfluidic patch and chemical assays to support deployment in remote settings. Each sweat profile is designed to give you insight into how your body works in a specific environment and intensity. In other words, if I do the same 30-minute incline walk on my treadmill, with my thermostat set to 70 degrees, five days a week, I can use just one sweat profile to inform all of my future 30-minute incline walks.

The Gx Sweat Patch adheres to the forearm. It passively measures an athlete’s sweat rate and electrolyte composition and can be scanned with a companion smartphone app. The platform uses the biometric data gathered from the Sweat Patch to generate individual hydration recommendations to optimize performance based on weather, intensity, and activity duration. The product was showcased at TED 2019 and will be piloted this year with professional teams and consumer athletes. You can also turn it heads down with the lid closed and squeeze gently. If the content no longer pours out then you have a successful fix. Do Gatorade Water Bottles Leak?At present, the Gx app seems to offer little in the way of concrete recommendations for how to take the sweat and sodium readings and turn them into a meaningful hydration strategy for a specific sport. As Drew Palin, Senior Director of Marketing at Gatorade shared, “There were 20 different iterations just for onboarding the app and scanning the patch. Innovation comes down to constant iteration piloting and knowing it won’t be perfect right away, but that eventually you’ll reach a place you really feel good about. Inflection points can only reveal themselves if you test a lot of hypotheses. The combination of piloting, iteration, and having the design chops to be able to put different stimuli out there, enables the team to get the right learning, empathy, and insights.” Kobylewski, S., & Jacobson, M. F. (2013, November 12). Toxicology of food dyes [Abstract]. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 18(3), 220–246.Retrieved from But when you think about the kinds of experiences that create a sense of “magic”, they often have that iceberg-like quality: a simple device or interaction with a sophisticated benefit. That’s only possible through tech ecosystems, and those ecosystems get more complex every day. After all, if a team of designers, technologists, and researchers can give a skin patch magical powers…what’s next? About John Anderson, Technology Director

Medical News Today has strict sourcing guidelines and draws only from peer-reviewed studies, academic research institutions, and medical journals and associations. We avoid using tertiary references. We link primary sources — including studies, scientific references, and statistics — within each article and also list them in the resources section at the bottom of our articles. You can learn more about how we ensure our content is accurate and current by reading our editorial policy. This technique of focusing different pilots on different aspects of the experience — first data collection, then user journeys, and finally complexity of taking a sweat test — is critical to their success. “If you try to learn too much, you end up with noise — an inch deep and a mile wide,” says Anderson. “So it’s crucial to make sure you know what you’re trying to learn, and run the pilot with that in mind.” Sample an athlete’s sweat inexpensively, simply, and unobtrusively, and transfer the data to the cloud seamlessly and in real time. The patches had to be light-weight, wearable, and flexible, like Band-Aids. Koh, A. et al. A soft, wearable microfluidic device for the capture, storage, and colorimetric sensing of sweat. Sci. Transl. Med. 8, 366ra165 (2016). Whether this failure rate of ~16% (4/25) is representative of what will happen in the future is very hard to say, but this is something we'll keep a close eye on going forward. It's worth noting that the researchers who developed the patch stated a failure rate of up to 20% in their latest paper on the patch.Baker, L. B. et al. Skin-interfaced microfluidic system with personalized sweating rate and sweat chloride analytics for sports science applications. Sci Adv. 6, 17–19 (2020). Gathering sweat rate and sweat sodium data is most useful if it can be used to inform your hydration strategy and help you perform at your best. Reports from teams and individuals on performance improvements prior to and after adopting Gx, including anecdotal comments from athletes on social media.

The core team, at the center, who must demonstrate passion and knowledge about what they’re proposing.Increasingly, new tech is coming into the world through fairly simple, highly visible devices (like the sweat patch), that leverage behind them vast systems of databases, algorithms, connectivity, and careful design, to provide sophisticated consumer benefits.