Garmin Vivosmart 4 Tracks Your Blood Oxygen, 'Body Battery'

BERLIN—The Garmin Vivosmart four is a wearable fit for a vampire. Unlike virtually regular fettle trackers—which settle for tracking heart charge per unit, activity levels, and sleep patterns—the Vivosmart iv unveiled hither at IFA takes it a step further by keeping an middle on your blood oxygen level.

Fortunately, there's no bleeding required on your part. The measurements come from the pulse oximeter, which measures your blood oxygen saturation as you go nigh your usual activities.

The Garmin Vivosmart iv can see how much oxygen you take surging in your blood when you lot're huffing and puffing on a treadmill, and how little when yous're sitting slack-jawed on the couch or lying in bed. These measurements give you the kind of information you typically but get from a medical professional or much more expensive fitness trackers.

Some other new feature is Body Battery. This lets Vivosmart 4 proceed runway of your overall energy levels by measuring heart rate, oxygen saturation, sleep, and stress levels to tell you when it's a good time to work out. The term Body Bombardment sounds a little dystopian, but if y'all're wearing a fitness tracker you've already reconciled yourself to that.

In other regards, the Vivosmart iv is the aforementioned as the Vivosmart three. In terms of blueprint y'all get a slim band with several color options, and a simple small monochrome display with a single capactive button to interact with it. The wearable likewise has all the other fitness-tracking functionality you'd look, like the aforementioned eye rate monitoring and sleep tracking.

The small size and light weight makes the Vivosmart four easy to vesture. I put information technology on my wrist and forgot it was even in that location. The screen does seem a picayune pocket-size to receive things like weather and notifications, just it's still an option if you want it.

The Vivosmart four volition exist available for $129 later this year.