“Sweat is data”: What the Flowbio wearable sweat-tracking device revealed about my health

Flowbio specializes in sweat analysis for athletes, and their S1 is one of the few wearable sweat sensors to hit the market in the past few years. Although sweat is mostly made up of water and salt, it’s also dripping with biomolecules that can provide all kinds of useful insights into what’s going on inside our bodies. “Race is data,” says Roland Mengels, head of R&D at Flubio. Now the race is on to put this data to good use. They are aimed at people who sweat a lot while doing their jobs – athletes and manual workers – and are also available to the general public, and in the not-too-distant future, similar devices could collect all sorts of health-related information. Information from regular nuts. To find out more, New Scientist’s Graham Lawton visited Flowbio’s London office to do its best, in the name of science.