If you’ve ever used a nutrition tracking app or kept a food diary to track things like protein intake and calories, you know how tedious the process can be. That’s where the first automatic food tracking wearable comes in, collecting all your nutritional data without any effort on your part.
The drop may look like a strange metal nose, but it’s actually more like an eye, tracking your every movement regarding your food. This promises to make nutrition tracking less arduous. This is one of the main reasons why people abandon manual tracking and go back and forth between consistency and dietary free-fall stages.
Drop’s main feature is a camera that uses advanced computer vision and AI to automatically detect food intake. It takes photos intermittently and processes the images through AI. The image will be deleted immediately to protect the wearer’s privacy. When it detects food or drink in its field of view, the smart 4K AI camera takes additional photos to evaluate the user’s interaction with the item. These images are sent to the wearer’s smartphone, where further cloud analysis takes place.
“By introducing The Drop, we aim to create a new category of wearables: nutrition trackers, similar to fitness trackers and smartwatches,” explains co-founder Rangel Milushev. “Our vision is to help users manage their nutrition and health effortlessly.”
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Once activated, the 27.6 g (0.97 oz) device, which can be attached to clothing or worn around the neck with a magnetic clasp, analyzes the images collected to determine what and how much the wearer has eaten. . Once ingredients are selected from the database, they are cross-referenced with existing data to provide an accurate calorie, protein, carbohydrate, and fat breakdown. Of course, The Drop’s “brain” is based on machine learning, and it continues to develop based on the data it’s fed, becoming more accurate and personalized over time.
Although we haven’t gotten our hands on one of these yet (yet, they’ll be reviewed in the not-too-distant future), The Drop is similar to an earlier breakthrough by Rex.fit that analyzes nutritional value. This is an automated advancement from Nutribot, a major release. Confirm the contents of your meal via photo or recipe/meal details sent to the app. The research team says the new device has a 92% accuracy rate and a 16-hour battery charge time, but it’s still difficult to evaluate meals other than “hamburgers and fries” and has many hidden factors. I’m interested in the ability to evaluate included meals. Nutritional profile. (For example, would we detect meat substitutes that we are confident are very similar to real animal products?)
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The research team says it’s more than just a calorie counter, it’s essential whether your goal is to lose weight, optimize your diet for training, or simply bring your diet back into a more balanced realm. It emphasizes that you can become a health coach. The accompanying app, unlike most smartphone nutrition technologies, requires no subscription and provides personalized recipes, meal plans, training suggestions, and helpful critical feedback without having to fiddle with log information yourself. We provide
“We are actively working on the Rex Premium app, with the design phase now complete and the AI component fully developed,” the team says on the Kickstarter campaign page. “AI assistants go beyond basic calorie tracking and macro management by providing personalized meal plans and meal improvement suggestions.”
The app will be rolled out for Android and iOS, with final release scheduled for July 2025, and beta testing will begin soon.
He briefly summarizes the technical specifications.
Processor: Dual-core 32-bit processor running at up to 240 MHz. Wireless: Complete 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi subsystem, BLE: Bluetooth 5.0, Bluetooth mesh. Sensor: 4K camera, microphone. Memory: Supports on-chip 8M PSRAM & 8MB Flash, onboard SD card slot, 32GB FAT. Supported Frameworks: Compatible with ONNX runtime, tflite.Development Languages: Support for languages such as Python and C++. APIs and Libraries: Provides APIs for sensor data access, communication interfaces, and hardware control.
It will be a while before supporters can stop using food diaries and tracking apps. Delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2025, but the team has big plans for The Drop and wants to incorporate other health markers, such as exercise. Logging aims to be a one-stop shop for lifestyle.
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The campaign just launched on Kickstarter and is available in three colors: carbon black, metallic blue, and gold. This pack also includes a leather band, USB-C to USB-A charging cable, magnetic pin, and a lifetime subscription to the Rex app. Prices for single units start at $199 and twin packs start at $349.
Drop ships anywhere in the world, but shipping is free and customs duty-free for buyers in the US and Canada. If you live elsewhere, expect to pay an additional fee of $10 to $50, so check the Kickstarter page for more information. It also comes with a 2 year warranty.
Like we said, we’re looking forward to testing one of these out, but we’re hoping we’ll never have to scan a barcode or record 20 ingredients for a homemade soup again. I’m excited about it. Personally, I would be happy if AI could “steal” this job.
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