Amazon lumo lift android#

So what do you do when the battery runs out? As with most wearable devices, you put it on to charge…then forget about it for about three days.ĭuring my two-month test of the device this happened almost every week, despite it taking only two hours to refuel. Lumo Lift therefore can get you through a week's work – just – or a short business trip, which is crucial since it means you don't have to travel with the (admittedly small) recharging dock. The Lumo Lift is rated as lasting for five days, which is largely accurate, though it does depend on the coaching mode you choose more reminders = more vibrations = a shorter battery life. But who wants yet another daily admin task added to their digital to-do list? It needs to be super-quick and automatic. What it's actually doing is fetching from the phone's activity data. Unfortunately, the sync between device and app can take around five minutes while it's 'getting historical data'…from yesterday.

Does Lumo Lift even need an app? I'm not convinced it does. So two months in, I'm none the wiser about my posture, or what to do about it. I also received a weekly email telling me that my worst posture time was between 3am and 4am (while the Lumo Lift was clipped to a shirt draped over a chair). The app's 'trends' graph also lacks any useful insight, it's just a list of 'good posture hours' with no extra information added. However, while Lumo Back gave a live, real-time graphic about your posture, Lumo Lift doesn't, instead focusing on rewarding the user in rather meaningless ways. The app is similar to Lumo Back's in that it also collates basic statistics on your activity (though not sleep). Using the app you can set it to the inherently annoying three seconds if you want to be lambasted every time you even slightly slouch, or up to ten minutes.

It may well use patented biomechanics monitoring sensors, but as far as Lumo Lift's 'posture and movement feedback system' goes, that's it. The Lumo Lift vibrates if you slouch or, rather, if your shoulders lean forward. That's a pretty savvy decision, but doesn't solve the Lumo Lift's core problem: it doesn't do much. The makers want me to notice what Lumo Lift is doing, at first, then try to prevent it from annoying me too much.

Amazon lumo lift android#

Slouch in such a garment and the device stays in the same position, and it doesn't buzz.ĭuring set-up using the free app for iOS (opens in new tab) or Android it 'strongly advised' me to have it buzz after 15 seconds of slouching (something it calls 'coaching'), but the advice quickly changed with the coaching mode toggled on, it soon increased that advice to two minutes. I also found that the Lumo Lift works better with some clothes than others if clipped to a t-shirt it worked fine, but if the garment is at all baggy or loose – as a shirt can be – it means the Lumo Lift doesn't move as the wearer moves.