If you think you need to improve your neck and shoulder posture, theres an
iPhone app that uses AirPods to help you improve just that. Developed by
Jordi
Bruin, Posture Pal is an interesting idea that will help you during long
work hours, while playing a video game, or even while watching a movie
without
destroying your back.
Bruin has developed some nice apps over these past months. One of the latest
is Navi, which is a FaceTime client
that adds subtitles and live translations through SharePlay.
Now with Posture Pal, the developer wants to help people improve their neck
and shoulder posture by using the motion sensor in the AirPods.
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A few years back I bought a hardware tracker to improve my posture, which
required me to stick it to the back of my neck. After a few days of feeling
like
a cyborg I stopped using it. When I came across the motion detection API I
realized I would be able to create the same posture tracking experience but
in a much less obtrusive format. A lot of people have their AirPods in their
ears the entire day, so they wont have to adjust their lifestyle as much.
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With Posture Pal, you just have to start a session, and it will keep track
of your neck tilt and will alert you when a bad posture is detected, even if
the app is in the background. It also features:
Visual, vibration and sound alerts when bad posture is detected
Works in the background with low battery usage
Works while other sound or music is playing
Three different sensitivity levels
Full support for Dynamic Text, Voice Over and Voice Control
Posture Pal requires
AirPods 3,
AirPods Pro,
AirPods Max,
or
Beats Fit Pro.
Bruin says that other headphones that can send motion data to your iPhone
will also work.
While the app is simple to use, its also very colorful and features a
giraffe. The developer explained why he made the application this way:
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My little cousins always ask me if I can also make video games as a
developer. I wanted to make something fun together with them, which is why I
came up
with the concept for Posture Pal where there are animated characters that
inform the user about their posture. The first Posture Pal is Rafi the
Giraffe!
Users can interact with Rafi and they will hopefully make the experience a
bit more playful for people.
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Posture Pal uses an API introduced with iOS 14 to work, which is the same
motion data used for the Spatial Audio feature on the iPhone. The app is
available
in 18 languages (English, Dutch, German, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish,
Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Bulgarian, Turkish, Croatian,
Portuguese,
Korean, Hungarian, Polish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, and Afrikaans), and its
free to download.
Users can track their posture for up to ten minutes at a time and can adjust
the colors in the app until they relaunch the app. With a $2 one-time
payment,
users can remove the time limit, customize sensitivity angles, colors,
themes, plus choose up to 12 different app icons.
For the first week of sales, Bruin will send all proceeds to his interns
family and friends that had to flee Ukraine in these past 20 days due to
war.
<https://9to5mac.com/author/joseadorno/> José Adorno
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