Wearable technology conquers the final frontier with KGoal, a device to help women the world over exercise their pelvic floor muscles better… the KGoal Smart Kegel Trainer can monitor pelvic floor exercise with real-time feedback. Photograph: Minna Life It can already stream the internet straight to your face, vibrate around your waist when you're slouching and track your health using only your wrist. Now, wearable technology is getting even more intimate and attempting to conquer the final frontier: the vagina. Recently launched on Kickstarter, the KGoal Smart Kegel Trainer, produced by San Fransisco-based sexual health startup Minna Life, describes itself as a “Fitbit for your vagina,” an interactive device to guide, measure and track pelvic floor muscle exercise. It takes the form of a squeezable silicone pillow, connected to a smartphone app, that measures your “clench strength” and feeds the data back to a smartphone app via Bluetooth. It also has an internal motor for “real time vibrational biofeedback.” “Pelvic floor muscles are one of the most important, yet least appreciated, parts of the body,” says the product's designer, Grace Lee, in the promotional video. “But many people never think about exercising them.” Running from the pubic bone to the base of the spine, the sling-shaped muscles hold the bladder and urethra in place, controlling urination. Critically important during and after pregnancy, they can often be damaged during childbirth, leading to incontinence and reduced pleasure during sex. “30% of women need direct feedback to perform a pelvic floor muscle contraction correctly,” says the company's pelvic floor specialist Liz Miracle. “People come to me and say 'I didn't do my exercises because I couldn't see what was happening and I didn't know what was going on,' so they often just give up.” By flashing its pink light, vibrating and charting your progress on the app – soon to come complete with games – the KGoal aims to change all that. “It's like having a gym, a physical therapist and a tracking system in the palm of your hand,” says Lee. Or inside your vagina, as the case may be. The biggest challenge in developing the product was “fine-tuning the human interface and ergonomics of the device,” Minna Life's appropriately named Jon Thomas told Wired. “By that I mean the product shape and feel. Because KGoal must fit a wide variety of anatomies, it was a challenge to make the product both functional and comfortable across the full spectrum of our users.” - ((°}

tecnicamente non è "wearable" - quel *** di Luca

WTF - mumucs GOLUB POBA

il fondatore di Minna Life deve essere siciliano - mario leone GOLUB MUOI

luca, pure i tampax si indossano, la pruderie non è scomparsa con la regina vittoria ;D - ((°}

pare che quel muscolo lì favorisca il parto senza lacerazioni - Roi

roi, le lacerazioni avvengono perché ti passa un cantalupo nella passera. al più puoi eiettare palline da ping pong nelle bettole australiane. - ((°}

un cantalupo? - tamas

ahah, malina, giuro che la mia collega si esercitava prima del parto, ma credo non avesse uno strumento così avanzato - Roi

gentile tamas, la dimensione della testolina è quella. - ((°}

Sto guglando "Cantalupo", dolce Malina. - tamas

Condividi su Facebook, Gioca con gli amici (ROFL) - Pierotaglia

(io stavo pensando a una roba tipo teamviewer) - ((°}

(ma anche un endomondo con kegel championship) - ((°}

tamas, la dolcezza è la dote per la quale sono rinomata in tutto l'orbe terraqueo <3 - ((°}

tamas, come lo chiamate lì il retato? "Di pane" come noialtri terroni adriatici? - Smeerch

(comunque volevo dire alla signora o signorina Grace Lee che "yet least appreciated” mi sembra un'affermazione molto triste e poco rispondente al vero) - ((°}