原创 Bringing style to wearables

People are now interested in tracking their health as proven by the success of the Nike FuelBand and Fitbit. In fact, a recent survey suggests that 75% of Americans believe that wearables will positively impact their health. While activity trackers may be good for your waist, they can kill the perfect outfit. Wellograph, a stylish wellness watch, wants to correct this.

Wellograph wants to create an activity tracker that you will want to wear proudly to an important business meeting or a first date. And it's doing this with a keen eye for design and the selection of the right materials.

Wellograph president Nick Warnock told Designers of Things that the current design presented at CES this past year was a result of 15 to 20 iterations. He believes that Wellograph stands out from what is becoming a crowded wearable health space because the Wellograph is a stylish piece of jewelry and not “a piece of plastic you wear on your wrist, arm, or head.”

The Wellograph wellness watch is the first wearable to be made with sapphire crystal. This material is stronger than steel and can only be scratched by diamonds. Warnock believes the smartphone industry will shift to sapphire crystal, citing the recent news of Apple’s sapphire crystal plant in Arizona.

Unlike other activity trackers that just track activity, Wellograph monitors your heart rate, which means that it has the ability to calculate calories burned and measure your aerobic fitness. For Warnock this means that Wellograph better measures your complete health rather than just steps.

But the target audience for the wellness watch is not the pro athlete. Warnock explained that he expects Wellograph on the wrists of the working professional who wants to keep tabs on his health while wearing an accessory for status or to add to his sense of style.

The Wellograph works independent of a smartphone. It can store up to four months of data, and all of the data collection and visualizations do not required a connection. But Wellograph will be launching companion apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 8.1 smartphones, which will let users store and dig deeper into the metrics gathered by the watch.

Wellograph is currently accepting pre-orders for its device for Rs.21,151.52 ($349). It comes in black chrome and silver satin. The company is making only 10,000 available in its first run.