October 9, 2024
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Technology

Fitness watches should stop treating dehydration and sweat loss as an afterthought

Smartwatches continue to incorporate “life-saving” technology such as fall detection, SOS calls, atrial fibrillation warnings and the latest Loss of pulse feature on Pixel watches, all to keep you feeling safe. But there's a less flashy, more common concern that most watches treat as an afterthought: tracking hydration and sweat loss.

I've been wanting better hydration tools on watches for a while, but last weekend's report from 35-year-old runner Bobby Graves, He died of cardiac arrest after finishing a half marathon at Disneyland Last weekend, a day after I self-diagnosed myself with heat exhaustion at 38ºC, it hit me.

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