This wearable wristband is designed for makers to tinker with

Wearables are the trend these days. There are a plethora of watches and wristbands that make it easy to monitor and track your health and wellness.

Now,there’s even a wearable designed specifically for makers, experimenters,  hackers, researchers, inventors and tinkerers.

The Angel Sensor, the first open wearable device designed for mobile health, now supports the Lua programming language on its Angel Sensor M1 device, which makes it the first wearable health device that can execute code independently—eliminating the need for wearables to communicate with mobile devices.

Seraphim Sense Ltd., the Angel Sensor’s creator, is aiming to provide developers more flexibility and set the stage for new generation of health and IoT apps.

The Angel Sensor M1 builds on the technology of the company’s original Angel Sensor. Both devices monitor heart rate, skin temperature, activity, calories, and sleep quality, but the M1 is designed to run apps in Lua. This addition to the Angel Sensor will make it possible for the device to host third-party apps, algorithms and services in real-time.

Each of the wristband’s sensors applies advanced noise-filtering and artificial intelligence algorithms which convert signals into vital sign measurements. The sensors also provide raw waveform data that can be used for research and advanced processing.

Why Lua?

According to Seraphim Sense, most of today’s embedded devices require hundreds of thousands of lines of low-level code in C or C++. Using Lua, a scripting language found in multiplayer games, IT, and academic research, Angel Sensor apps may contain only a few hundred lines of code.

“Lua is an incredibly versatile language, and being able to run it on our ultra-low energy wearable platform is unprecedented,” said Eugene Jorov, co-founder and CTO of Angel Sensor. “We are confident that by supporting Lua, we will make the new Angel Sensor irresistible to health app developers and researchers.”

Next year, the company plans to switch its application model entirely to Lua so that developers can use it to build IoT devices from scratch.

The Angel Sensor M1 is now on sale for $89.99 on the company’s website.