Lebanese swimmer and founder of Instabeat, Hind Hobeika, has developed a revolutionary monitor that is mounted on to your swimming goggles. Instabeat allows you to track your heart rate, rate of calorie burn, and your lap number and flip turns. The monitor’s slim design reduces friction in the water, and also does not disturb your swimming pattern.
Swimmers have found it nearly impossible to adapt technologies used for bikers and runners to their environment, making it difficult to monitor a workout without the help of a coach out of the water.
The monitor tracks your heart rate from the temporal artery and starts working from the moment the goggles are placed on your head.
The monitor displays different colours to indicate to the swimmer whether they’re in fat burning, muscle building, or endurance mode. The colours are then displayed in real time while you are swimming to allow the swimmer to constantly track their progress.
And all the information stored in the monitor can be synced to your compuer through the USB port.
The Instabeat technology won first prize at the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Business Plan Competition in 2012 and third prize at the Stars of Science competition in 2010.
The design has since been tested and retested to develop a monitor that can be manufactured and sold.
