‘Sweat is data’: What Flowbio’s sweat tracking wearable revealed about my health

Flowbio specializes in sweat analysis for athletes, and its S1 device is one of the few wearable sweat sensors to hit the market in the past few years. Although sweat is mostly water and salt, it also drips with biological molecules that can provide all kinds of useful information about what’s going on in our bodies. “Sweat is data,” says Roeland Mingels, Flowbio’s director of research and development. Now, the race is well underway to make the most of this data. Targeted at people who sweat a lot at work—athletes and manual workers—they are also available to the public, and in the near future, similar devices may collect all kinds of health-related data. A message from Average Joes. To find out more, New Scientist’s Graham Lawton visited Flowbio’s London offices to break a sweat in the name of science.