Gatorade's smart water bottle uses sweat to gauge when you need to hydrate

Gatorade has designed a smart water bottle to help you determine and maintain your baseline hydration level and monitor your post-workout recovery. A ring of LEDs spinning around the cap of the Smart Gx bottle should allow you to monitor your daily hydration and gently nudge you to drink more if needed. You can charge the bottle using a USB cable. A Gatorade spokesperson told Engadget that the bottle is dishwasher safe, but the cap is not.

Naturally, your hydration levels can be tracked through Gatorade's iOS-only Gx app, which offers nutrition and training plans as well as recovery recommendations. As for what happens when you drink water from another source and how the app will track that, Gatorade says it's "on the roadmap for launch."

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Meanwhile, Gatorade's Sweat Patch, which the company launched last year, is a single-use, wearable accessory that can help you create a "sweat profile" in the app and track your perspiration. You will need to use the Sweat Patch to get a hydration report for the Smart Gx bottle. Alternatively, you can weigh yourself before and after your workout.

To this end, Gatorade sells pods that can be mixed with water to help replenish electrolytes and carbohydrates. They are compatible with the Smart Gx Bottle and the Regular Gx Bottle, each having a piercing mechanism for the pods. Plus, the company offering gummies it claims can aid recovery and boost your immune system.

Smart water bottles that can track hydration levels have been around for years, but Gatorade is entering the space as a well-known brand. People might be more inclined to try one from a company whose products they've been using for years than one that started life as a crowdfunding project.

Engadget Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low tested the Smart Gx Bottle using pre-release software. We'll have to test it a little longer to determine how effective it is in tracking hydration levels. It is similar to other Gatorade bottles in terms of compressibility. However, Cherlynn found that the cap was leaking, which is not very aesthetically pleasing. Plus, in case you were wondering, Cherlynn says the recovery gummies taste better than expected.

The Smart Gx bottle is available on the Gatorade website starting today. It costs $70. Gatorade will add a Sweat Patch and a four-pod pack of your choice at no additional cost. If you are interested in the erasers, these will cost you $26 for one set or $46.80 for one set.

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