Back when it was still under Google (they’re now under Alphabet, the new holding company from Google founders), the Life Sciences team announced that they were developing a “capicola” health tracker that would cater more for medical purposes than for lifestyle ones like most wearables. We hardly heard from them about this project afterwards, but now we’ve got a better look at it through FCC photos and it looks like this is something worth having, if you’re more into health monitoring rather than fitness tracking.

The actual monitoring device can be detached from the wrist band and is in a plastic casing that can stand alone even without the band (although the band is of course more convenient). The “capicola” can monitor your heart rate, heart rhythm, skin temperature, light exposure around you, and even noise levels as well. All this is possible through a lot of sensors in that one, tiny, package.

Google was supposed to have tested the device by summer of this year, after it was announced at the beginning of 2015. But since June, there wasn’t any news about it, and so people were thinking the project may have been abandoned. But the presence of these pictures indicate that it’s still alive and kicking.

However, aside fro the images, we still have no concrete news as to whether it’s already in the testing stage or do they have a target release date already. All we know is that Life Sciences is no longer under Google, but under parent company Alphabet.

VIA: 9 to 5 Google

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