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

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I’ll admit, I was skeptical about the need for a smart water bottle when this arrived — what can this bottle do that my Chilly’s can’t (other than not hold ice or coffee)? That required a familiar-looking bottle with a lot under the hood: sensors, embedded microprocessors, LED indicators track your progress towards your daily hydration goal, batteries, and wireless connectivity—seamlessly integrated, and waterproof. Explore a collection of stainless steel water bottles and come with lids to keep your drinks safe from contamination.

Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. Once you’ve put in basic information like your daily hydration goal, the time you get out of bed in the morning, and the time you go to bed, you can choose a color for the LED lights that sit around the top of the bottle.It would be good to see the recommended hydration levels on the bottles change when users scan a sweat patch, as I found despite both using the app, they didn’t feel awfully connected. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Dehydration occurs when you lose more fluid than you take in — if water loss from sweating, the body’s way of maintaining its body temperature during exercise, occurs at a higher rate than fluid intake, an athlete will become dehydrated. Like everything else on the planet, these days we have a number of technical devices to help us keep an eye on our hydration levels — from apps on our phones, to notifications on our best fitness trackers and best running watches.

Once you’ve refilled the water bottle, the lights on the bottle flash blue once the bottle has recalibrated. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. I once had a running coach tell me that in the week before a marathon, keeping an eye on your hydration levels is just as important in loading up on carbohydrates. Our bottle design takes cues from the beloved evergreen Gx squeeze bottles, including the 30 oz volume capacity, the flip cap with built-in pod piercer, and the ergonomic waistline.Once you charge the bottle, press the button, and sync it to the Gx App, color-coded LED indicators pulse on around the drinking spout. The bottle uses a smart sensor in the lid that pairs to the app on your phone to record this data — Gatorade says the sensor measures the distance between it and the top of the liquid, then subtracts that from the bottle’s known total volume.

The drinks giant said it provides daily hydration recommendations and tracking capabilities with a light-up cap that reminds athletes of their daily recommended hydration goal and how they’re tracking in real-time. Checking my hydration became something I did a few times a day, and it’s not something I’ve ever been concerned about before. Personal hydration recommendations are generated using algorithms co-developed by Smart Design and the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, and used by professional sports teams.The Gatorade Smart Gx Bottle is a tech-enabled squeeze bottle designed to help athletes set and track their daily hydration goals. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. To insure the Gx Smart Bottle worked flawlessly under the toughest conditions, Smart Design took responsibility for engineering all parts and assembly methods.

If the future has charging water bottles, Gatorade is already there — simply plug the bottle in, charge it up, and you’re good to go. ThisIsWhyImBroke is reader supported, some products displayed may earn us a commission if you purchase through our links. By leveraging the brand trust they’d built, they could provide tools that help athletes understand their habits and needs, and maximize performance from the inside out.

By observing how a prototype worked on the field, and interviewing players and coaches to get fine-grained reactions, we could then modify, update, and iterate. Of course, the Smart Gx Bottle isn’t Gatorade’s first product that strives to bring athlete-level tech to the masses. During my work days, I found I often beat these reminders — sitting behind a laptop screen, I’ll find any excuse to procrastinate, and it turns out filling my water bottle is a good one. During testing, it didn’t take long for the competitive athlete in me to start trying to beat the light on the top of the bottle. When she's not pounding the pavements, you'll find Jane striding round the Surrey Hills, taking far too many photos of her puppy.