SMS Bio-Sport Earbuds Monitor Your Heart Rate While You Listen To Music

If you want to keep track of your heart rate but don’t want to use those wearable gadgets, then SMS’s Bio-sport earbuds are just the right thing for you. SMS has teamed up with Intel to build an earbud that monitors heart rate through user’s ear canal and feeds the data into a third-party smartphone app- RunKeeper. What makes them stand-out from other devices is their ability to draw power from the headphone jack of an iPhone or certain Android phones. So, just plug them in and then get ready for some running.

Unlike other earbuds, they come with "secure fit ear gels" that slip right under the inner ridge of your ear, so when you're jogging, running, rowing, sprinting, and swimming about, the earbuds stay right where you want them.
Coming to hardware, they have an inline mic controller on the right earbud cord which can be used to control music. The weird part is that there are only two buttons. The one with the small heart slides up and down to turn on the heart rate sensor or to switch to "phone mode" while on a run. If you need to use phone mode for whatever reason,it will stop the heartrate sensor though.The second button is a music controller. One press pauses (or plays) whatever track you're on and a double-press let’s you skip forward to the next track. The SMS manual says that a triple press lets you go back. You can also summon Siri or Google Now by long-pressing on that button.

Using them is not a difficult task for Android users, as the Android version of RunKeeper will automatically recognize the earbuds as a heartrate monitor and a small red heart will pop up near your workout info on the start screen. For iOS users, you'll need to dig around in the app's devices settings and pick the headphone option. Then you are good to go. These earbuds come in blue, yellow and grey colors and you can buy them #-Link-Snipped-# for $149.95 USD.

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