Flowbio specializes in sweat analysis for athletes and their S1 device is one of a handful of sweat sensors that can be worn and that came to the market in the past few years. Although sweat is often water and salt, it dripping with vital molecules that can provide all kinds of ideas about what is going on inside our bodies. “Sweat is data,” says Flowbio, head of research and development. Now the race is underway to use this data well. It aims to people who sweat a lot in the context of their jobs-sports and hand workers-and they are also available to the general public, and in the non-far-long future, similar devices can collect all kinds related to health information from regular Joes. To learn more, Graham Lawton visited the new world Flowbio office in London to get his race, in the name of science.
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