Sip and scan smart water series#

Checking my hydration became something I did a few times a day, and it’s not something I’ve ever been concerned about before. I’ll admit, I was skeptical about the need for a smart water bottle when this arrived - what can this bottle do that my Chilly’s can’t (other than not hold ice or coffee)? Yet after a few days of glugging from this bottle, I was surprised at how second-nature it became clicking the LED lights on the lid. Gatorade Smart Gx Bottle: Gatorade’s sweat patches There’s a half marathon and marathon training plan by Aliphine Tuliamuk, the long-distance runner who represented the United States at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, a core stability and conditioning 12-week program with Serena Williams, and a 12-week strength program with Karl-Anthony Towns, amongst others. The bottle uses a smart sensor in the lid that pairs to the app on your phone to record this data - Gatorade says the sensor measures the distance between it and the top of the liquid, then subtracts that from the bottle’s known total volume.Īs well as keeping an eye on your hydration, the app also has a number of training programs, devised by well-known athletes. Once you’ve refilled the water bottle, the lights on the bottle flash blue once the bottle has recalibrated.Īs well as looking cool, these lights act as your tracker - if you press the button, you’ll see how close you are to meeting your hydration goal throughout the day. Gatorade says the Gx smart bottle syncs with the Gx app every 30-60 seconds to keep track of your hydration progress. At the weekends, however, I definitely found I drank a lot less, maybe because I was out and about, moving around a lot more, but perhaps because I wasn’t keeping such a close eye on my bottle. During my work days, I found I often beat these reminders - sitting behind a laptop screen, I’ll find any excuse to procrastinate, and it turns out filling my water bottle is a good one.

You can program the bottle to flash with hydration reminders every 30 minutes, should you wish.

Sip and scan smart water series#

However, with the flashing lights of the Gx bottle in my life, like closing my rings on my Apple Watch Series 8, reaching all the lights on the bottle’s lid became a new goal. Sure, in the run-up to a race I’ll add some hydration sachets to my water, but most of the time I drink to thirst. I drink a lot of water on a good day - as a fitness editor and runner, I’m pretty active, but until testing this bottle, my water intake hasn’t ever been something I’ve actively tracked (except for when I drank a gallon of water a day for a month). Gatorade Smart Gx Bottle: Design and useĭuring testing, it didn’t take long for the competitive athlete in me to start trying to beat the light on the top of the bottle. The bottle uses a smart sensor in the lid that pairs to the app on your phone to record this data - Gatorade says the sensor measures the distance between it and the top of the liquid, then subtracts that from the bottle’s known total volume.

Once you’ve put in basic information like your daily hydration goal, the time you get out of bed in the morning, and the time you go to bed, you can choose a color for the LED lights that sit around the top of the bottle.Īs well as looking cool, these lights act as your tracker - if you press the button, you’ll see how close you are to meeting your hydration goal throughout the day. When connected to your iPhone (Android compatibility will be available in 2023), the Smart Gx bottle can notify you about your hydration status throughout the day. Without the Gx app, this water bottle makes no sense. Well, almost: Gatorade says the bottle will last 3-5 days between charges. If the future has charging water bottles, Gatorade is already there - simply plug the bottle in, charge it up, and you’re good to go. Open the lid, and you’ll find a charging cable inside. Out of the box, the Gatorade bottle looks like the rest of the Gx bottles in the brand’s line-up, but this one is slightly different.