Washington: Researchers have created a powerful, sensor-fitted cup that identifies what you’re drinking and tells you how it affects your health and hydration needs. Vessyl, a new product from San Francisco-based startup Mark One will not only identify and track what you drink and how much of it, but can do so on the fly as it senses the liquid type and breaks it down to its most vital components as soon as it interacts with the cup’s sensor-filled interior.
The ultimate utility with Vessyl is not to provide novelty, but to transform how we consume every ounce of liquid throughout the day. Caffeine and sugar amounts, alongside calorie count and a proprietary metric for hydration called Pryme, are tracked through an app on your phone, and bits of that information are also displayed on a screen embedded within the cup itself.
The display glimmers to life only when new liquids are poured in to notify you that, yes, you are drinking coffee-and here’s how much caffeine that particular brew will put into your system. A small pillar of light also tells you how drinking that particular amount of that particular liquid will hurt or help your level of hydration as well.
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