The Hexoskin smart shirt that measures 42,000 data points per minute, transmits metrics in real-time and allows for advanced training, is now optimized for winter weather.
Hexoskin, the company behind the biometric smart shirt that provides users with in-depth insight regarding their physical training, sleep and daily activities, is expanding its product line to include the Arctic Smart Shirt.
The Arctic Smart Shirt is billed as the world’s first cold weather Biometric Smart Shirt. The sensor filled Hexoskin shirt is positioned as the perfect base layer for optimum training in cold weather.
The Arctic Smart Shirt provides heat insulation, breathability, odour-resistance and blocking of fabric pulling and abrasion, all while providing the high-quality Hexoskin body metrics the brand’s shirts are known for. The shirt is designed to be used over long periods of time without causing irritation to the skin and delivers comfort similar to Merino wool.
“Athletes train year-round and we wanted to create the ultimate base layer that would allow them to train smarter even in the cold weather months,” said Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, Co-Founder and CEO of Hexoskin.
“With the addition of the Arctic Smart Shirt, we yet again prove that we can continue to grow as a company and provide smart garments to our customers that live up to their needs for information, style and comfort.”
Essentially a ‘wearable precision lab’, Hexoskin provides its users with ‘lab-quality metrics when performance truly matters’. Hexoskin, with the support of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, created sensors made of textile, leaving almost no hardware in the shirt.
A small Bluetooth device is connected to the fabric sensors and placed in the shirt’s built-in side pocket during activity and sleep. The shirt is light, warm, comfortable, and ‘provides users with measurements they simply cannot receive from regular fitness trackers.’
In addition to measuring basic metrics such as heart rate, step count, sleep duration and calories burned, the device also measures heart rate recovery, heart rate variability, breathing rate, breathing volume, activity level, acceleration, cadence and more.
These metrics give users the information they need to surpass their fitness and athletic goals. By reviewing the data before, during and after workout sessions, users can exert maximum training effort, while still avoiding fatigue, overtraining and injuries.
The Arctic Smart Shirt will be available in December and will retail for US$199.
Used for scientific testing and astronaut training, Hexoskin is a smart device that connects to an intelligent sports garment with integrated sensors to capture body metrics, such as heart rate, breathing rate, acceleration, and more.
Hexoskin’s mission is to record and organize personal health information and make it accessible and useful. To get better and more affordable health and fitness services, the company notes that people will need to wear health sensors. Connectivity, increased interest for health and fitness, population aging and the consumerization of healthcare are seen as strong tailwinds for Hexoskin in the months and years ahead
