As well as looking cool, these lights act as your tracker — if you press the button, you’ll see how close you are to meeting your hydration goal throughout the day. We also oversaw development from concept to finished product, working directly with manufacturers to adjust tooling and processes, creating firmware specifications, and developing a coherent marketing strategy, tested and refined in parallel with the product. But as a fitness editor, it’s always cool to see lab-based tech being turned into products for consumers, as whether you’re an athlete or an amateur, you still care about being the best you can be in your sport. To insure the Gx Smart Bottle worked flawlessly under the toughest conditions, Smart Design took responsibility for engineering all parts and assembly methods.

Look through a variety of plastic water bottles, glass water bottles, kids water bottles, filter water bottles and straw water bottles.An avid runner, Jane has tested and reviewed fitness products for the past five years, so knows what to look for when finding a good running watch or a pair of shorts with pockets big enough for your smartphone. We needed the personalization too since these water bottles are prone to theft at the middle school. ImpacX, an Israeli tech company, worked on the sensors and processors, while manufacturers in Tennessee and China helped dial in the molded details and complex internal structure.

I drink a lot of water on a good day — as a fitness editor and runner, I’m pretty active, but until testing this bottle, my water intake hasn’t ever been something I’ve actively tracked (except for when I drank a gallon of water a day for a month). It looks like a typical sports bottle, with a small magnetic charging port and a single waterproof button on the cap. I’ll admit, I was skeptical about the need for a smart water bottle when this arrived — what can this bottle do that my Chilly’s can’t (other than not hold ice or coffee)? Gatorade has always been a sports performance brand, but the Smart Gx Bottle positions it as a sports technology leader, opening up new avenues for future expansion.

We went through a few iterations of the smart cap to ensure its functionality and provided athletes with accurate hydration tracking and notifications, as well as an ergonomic fit during exercise.

Of course, the Smart Gx Bottle isn’t Gatorade’s first product that strives to bring athlete-level tech to the masses. We take pride in the quality of our gear, and we have made adjustments to the bottle to fix the issue. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Dehydration occurs when you lose more fluid than you take in — if water loss from sweating, the body’s way of maintaining its body temperature during exercise, occurs at a higher rate than fluid intake, an athlete will become dehydrated.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). If you’ve ever gotten to the end of the work day and realized you’ve only consumed one cup of coffee, this is a smart tool that’ll make you think twice about how much you’re drinking. Our bottle design takes cues from the beloved evergreen Gx squeeze bottles, including the 30 oz volume capacity, the flip cap with built-in pod piercer, and the ergonomic waistline.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. It’s a training tool, like the move notifications on your fitness tracker, or the rings on your Apple Watch, that remind you to keep on top of something it’s easy to neglect. We do not recommend reusing our bottles because they cannot be properly sterilized or washing in a hot water cycle of a dishwasher as the plastic may distort and/or shrink.That said, as they are single-use patches, it would be unfair to assume consumers would be using these every time they workout. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Where only water is available, Gatorade powder mix provides a convenient option to transform water into Gatorade.