Imagine a motorized belt that adjusts to your body when you sit down, or extends itself as your gut expands during a marathon eating session.
French company Emiota has realized the dream, but it doesn’t end there because Belty can also track your waistline and measure your activity. Alongside the tiny motors there’s an accelerometer and a gyroscope.
We hear this will be a premium product, so expect a high price tag. But do we need one? You could argue that a standard belt is already pretty good at telling you when you’re getting fat via notch technology.
The popularity of a motorized smart belt, either out of genuine curiosity or incredulous cynicism, says volumes about CES in 2015. The participants of the annual tech extravaganza, media included, have become engulfed by a desire to seek out and deliver to the world something new.
In the words of Emiota co-founder Carine Coulm, the belt is after all "the only place you can add a lot of weight" to the device, making it a good place to load with sensors and other components.
