Now you can watches your breathing and mental health with this smart pebble

The Spire mindfulness and activity tracker is small, clips to your waistband and comfortable. (spire.io)

Breathing is a job for our subconscious mind, so we don't like to think about it. Maybe some of you will become concerned that you will stop breathing if you more conscious of it. But now there is a new health and fitness gadget and companion, called Spire. It will tell you all about your breathing: how often, how well and when you don't do it.

I just wanna test it by myself.

As Lance wrote, it's an attractive, $129 mindfulness and activity tracker. Spire looks nothing like any health gadget have seen before. It’s resembles a small, gray rock and instead of sitting on your wrist, you clip Spire onto your waist band or bra and make sure the Spire pebble, which is about an inch in diameter and a half-inch thick, is facing in, resting gently against your skin or the waistband of your underwear. Maybe you thought this would be uncomfortable, but soon you will forgot that you were even wearing it.

Setup is easy with the Spire app. (mashable.com)

You have to charge it on its circular, cork-accented, wireless charging base and then connect it to your smartphone and the Spire app via Bluetooth Low Energy before you put Spire on. Spire vibrates when it’s connected and sometimes to let you know when you’re not breathing.

The app set-up will asks you the usual questions about your gender and weight.

Spire work. (spire.io)

Once the set-up is done and you’re wearing the Spire, the screen greets you with a live breathing wave. You can watch in real time as you breathe in and out. The app is watching for what Spire calls “streaks": 17 breaths per minute (BPM) is considered calm, slower than average, while 21 BPM might indicate that you’re tense. Focus streaks indicate a more consistent, but still above average breathing pattern.

Spire interfaces. (spire.io)

If Spire senses through your breathing patterns that you’re tense, it will ask you to engage in a calming exercise.

By the way Spire arrives just a few short months before the launch of Apples Breathe App for Apple watch OS 3.0.

Spire's breathing tracking screen is at left. In the center is the detail you see when you drag up on the breathing. At right you can see that Spire also tracks activity. (mashable.com)

It helps you manage stress through breathing exercises, but does not actually track breathing.

I would like to say that it helped you breath better or smarter, but the more you listened while watching you breathing, the more you just thought about the act of breathing.

What is on the box. (spire.io)

Spire watches for your breathing patterns so it can more accurately access when you're breathing faster or slower than your norm.

If the Spire has one issue, its battery consumption, not on the device itself, but on the iPhone, where the Spire apps non-stop breathing tracking made it the number one battery hog on my iPhone 6.

Source: Mashable