WHAT MAKES THE GO WATCH TICK

Heart-rate monitor The Go Watch’s heart-rate monitor, which it uses as part of its fitness tracking and emotion sensing, works by shining a green LEDs onto your capillary veins. Built-in optical sensors then detect the amount of blood flowing through your wrist at any given moment. When your heart beats, the blood flow in your wrist — and the green light absorption — is greater How are you feeling? Hungry? Crazy? Like screaming a the top of your lungs? Chances are that your Go Watch already knows this. Press the Go button on the Go Watch to take your emotional pulse. Using a combination of three instruments – an accelerometer, a gyroscope and that all-important heart-rate monitor – Alcatel claims that the Go Watch can tell how you’re feeling. Once…

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