Wearables like smartwatches and smart rings can be bulky, making them difficult to wear 24/7. That’s a gap that smart earring creator Lumia Health hopes to fill with the Lumia 2 device, which was originally created in collaboration with researchers at Johns Hopkins, Duke and Harvard to assist patients with chronic blood flow disorders.
The company calls the Lumia 2 smart earrings the world’s smallest wellness wearable. It’s an earring back-like device about the size of a coffee bean that houses a second-generation PreciseLight sensor, processors, a battery and additional health sensors.
On Tuesday, the Lumia 2 earrings launched on Kickstarter, earning more than $800,000, which is over 80 times the original goal of $10,000.
What Lumia 2 tracks
Weighing less than 1 gram and being five times smaller than AirPods, miniaturized biosensing technology allows the Lumia 2 smart earrings to track over 20 health metrics, including sleep, activity (steps, calories and active minutes), readiness,
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