Practically six years after introducing its original smart swim googles, Kind has introduced an upgraded model known as the Smart Swim 2. The goggles carry ahead the identical options as the unique, together with a built-in 72 x 40-pixel show displaying a swimmer’s varied efficiency metrics. Nevertheless, they’re now smaller and lighter, and whereas battery life is somewhat shorter, it’s due to new options like a digital compass and coronary heart fee monitoring.
The Good Swim 2 goggles can be found beginning in the present day by way of Kind’s on-line retailer for $279. The corporate additionally gives a Professional model for $329 with upgraded lenses created from Corning’s Gorilla Glass 3 which might be extra scratch resistant.
The show and small pod that grasp off the aspect of the googles containing the rechargeable battery, optical coronary heart fee sensor, and different electronics at the moment are 15 % smaller, according to Engadget, and will be worn on both aspect. With the ability to see your coronary heart fee in actual time throughout a swim (along with metrics like distance, stroke rely, and energy burned) is one other new function that may attraction to athletes and aggressive swimmers.
For individuals who desire swimming in open our bodies of water, the Good Swim 2’s digital compass, which reveals your present bearing on the goggle’s show, might help hold you swimming in a straight line or in direction of a particular vacation spot with out continuously having to interrupt your stroke to test your progress. Nevertheless, that SwimStraight function is locked behind Kind’s elective $9.99 per month Premium subscription, which additionally unlocks extra options that may attraction to athletes, akin to guided exercises and coaching plans.
Because of the brand new options, battery life maxes out at as much as 14 hours for the Good Swim 2, whereas the unique model supplied as much as 16 hours. However given the smaller design, which doubtlessly makes the brand new model extra snug to put on, that looks like a minor trade-off.