The first smart bottle (along with the corresponding Gx App and Gx Sweat Patch) designed for athletes. Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly.

Once you charge the bottle, press the button, and sync it to the Gx App, color-coded LED indicators pulse on around the drinking spout. Once you’ve put in basic information like your daily hydration goal, the time you get out of bed in the morning, and the time you go to bed, you can choose a color for the LED lights that sit around the top of the bottle. It’s a training tool, like the move notifications on your fitness tracker, or the rings on your Apple Watch, that remind you to keep on top of something it’s easy to neglect. Gatorade has always been a sports performance brand, but the Smart Gx Bottle positions it as a sports technology leader, opening up new avenues for future expansion.Often, I’ll head out the door first thing without taking a sip of water, and I’d find by the time I got to my desk at 9 a. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Personal hydration recommendations are generated using algorithms co-developed by Smart Design and the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, and used by professional sports teams. Each year, Gatorade is presented with thousands of requests for product donations and event sponsorships from dedicated individuals, teams and organizations.

Where we’ve really amplified the design is within the Gx Smart Bottle cap, which completes the Gx ecosystem. During my work days, I found I often beat these reminders — sitting behind a laptop screen, I’ll find any excuse to procrastinate, and it turns out filling my water bottle is a good one. Of course, the Smart Gx Bottle isn’t Gatorade’s first product that strives to bring athlete-level tech to the masses. That said, as they are single-use patches, it would be unfair to assume consumers would be using these every time they workout.As well as looking cool, these lights act as your tracker — if you press the button, you’ll see how close you are to meeting your hydration goal throughout the day. We were inspired to make a smart bottle that is unique to each individual athlete’s needs,” said Huls. If you’ve ever gotten to the end of the work day and realized you’ve only consumed one cup of coffee, this is a smart tool that’ll make you think twice about how much you’re drinking.