Cambridge Consultants, the product design and development firm in Cambridge, MA, and Cambridge, UK, says it has developed a bottle with wireless sensors and an associated smartphone app that reminds people when to drink fluids. The “i-dration” bottle is equipped with sensors that can detect external temperature, drinking frequency, and the amount of fluid in the bottle. Those data are sent from the bottle wirelessly with Bluetooth technology to a person’s smartphone. The bottle and app aren’t available on the market, but Cambridge Consultants will feature at 2011 International CES in Las Vegas in January.
Author: Ryan McBride
Ryan is an award-winning business journalist who contributes to our life sciences and technology coverage. He was previously a staff writer for Mass High Tech, a Boston business and technology newspaper, where he and his colleagues won a national business journalism award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008. In recent years, he has made regular TV appearances on New England Cable News.
Prior to MHT, Ryan covered the life sciences, technology, and energy sectors for Providence Business News. He graduated with honors from the University of Rhode Island in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. When he’s not chasing down news, Ryan enjoys mountain biking and skiing in his home state of Vermont.
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