http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/04/services-lead.jpg We’ve seen super-advanced solutions for purifying water, printing water, hacking water and, yes, even (partially) boiling water](http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/02/tea-kettle-concept-almost-boils-your-water-with-an-incandescent/). None of them are of any use, though, unless we actually remember to drink the stuff – preferably at least 2.5 liters of it per day. Fortunately, technology can assist with that too, either by taking the ECG approach to detecting dehydration, or – in the case of the prototype shown after the break – by monitoring how often we reach for our canteen.
The Sleeve, designed by an Estonian company called Jomi, hooks around a bottle and periodically weighs it, then sends information over Bluetooth to a mobile app that can analyze our drinking habits and warn us if we’re not taking the whole thing seriously enough. It’s being prepped for a Kickstarter launch at some point in the future, alongside a smaller version called the Jomi Band that will use accelerometers instead of scales. Both models inevitably make a number of assumptions – not least that the stuff in our flasks won’t actually dehydrate us further – but they could be the perfect to accompaniament to all those food metrics we keep hearing about.
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Source: TechCrunch