Over the last few years, more companies are coming up with wearables, but most of them deal with fitness and calories. How about something essential yet intimate like sex? It turns out that a group of researchers from Italy has already come up with it.
An Italian team led by Biorobotics Institute's Dr. Gastone Ciuti has created a wearable called HuMove. But before you ask where it is available, hear this: first, the app is still in prototype stage, which means it is not yet commercially produced. Second, it is meant for science and medicine rather than personal use.
This sex-focused device is primarily used to diagnose and treat sexual dysfunction. It has a size that is similar to that of a credit card and aims to keep track of sexual movements and activities among men (perhaps a for-female design is coming soon). It is fitted with an accelerometer to correctly record data. It also comes with a storage capacity that may be integral in helping the team assess sexual health of men.
However, the doctor is not closing himself to the idea that the wearable may also be used personally-that is, to help a person measure or assess his sexual capability, especially his or her performance.
Nevertheless, the doctor wants to emphasize that their main objective for now is to use it in the clinical setting. The group's study about the effectiveness of the wearable is already found in Urology.
Although this may be the first wearable for sex tracking, this is not the only study that uses technology to understand sex.
Last September 22, 2014, Vox ran a story about an experiment that aimed to determine the possible use of an MRI scanner to record sexual arousal and coitus. The research was published in BMJ in 1999, and it later won an Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine the following year.
