Lose Weight With A Smart Belt
Cue Belty, the world’s first smart belt, heading to pants-loop near you with the promise of knowing every tiny change to your waistline — in order to make staying svelte a cinch.
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I went waist-on with this newest entry into the wearable world, and it did everything the makers said it would — adjusting to the minute changes in the space between your belly and your belt buckle, all day long.
It gets looser when you sit down, tightens when you stand back up, and even vibrates if you’ve been sitting too long, as a reminder to get off your bum and get active if you truly want to minimize muffin top.
Like all the smart fitness doodads out today, it syncs up with an app on your smartphone to tracks your steps, and lets you know if you waistline has grown (or shrunk) over time.
Belty’s cute name doesn’t exactly fit its menacing appearance, looking like some kind of medieval metal torture device, but its creators promise me that it’s an early working prototype, made for men right now, and that it will slim down and style-up before it actually launches late this year.
There’s also a reason that the buckle is kind of big, there’s a motor in it. It cinches shut with and can feel your movements thanks to built-in sensors too. Everything it detects about your waist it sends to your smartphone, where the Belty app will shame you for not exercising more, or perhaps even praise you for culling a few calories from your post-holiday diet — those Christmas cookies have to come off sooner or later, after all.
Belty’s creators think of it as a “luxury” product, which probably means that its price is going to be quite high whenever they come up with a version they want to try to sell.
Right now, it’s expected to hit store shelves around the end of the year, just in time for the next bout of holiday binging. Until then, we’ll just have to adjust our waistlines the old fashioned way for a little while longer.
