Lechal insoles use GPS, haptic feedback to make any pair of shoes smart

Lechal insoles use GPS, haptic feedback to make any pair of shoes smart





Smart shoes are a small market right now. As a result, you may be hard-pressed to find a pair that fits your style. And wearing different shoes to match an outfit means you lose the smart features. The Lechal smart insoles solve that problem by allowing you to transfer the brains from shoe to shoe. Now you can stay connected no matter the attire.

Lechal insoles use haptic feedback and GPS technology to keep you going in the right direction, show you where you’ve been, track your fitness levels, and more. By connecting with the Lechal app on your phone, your feet can tell you where to go as the app sends specific vibrations to your foot. This means less time staring at your phone, and more time focused on the world around you.

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For instance, as you approach an upcoming turn, a slight vibration in your left or right foot will tell you all you need to know. There are unique vibration patterns for different kinds of turns and even for rerouting. With the app, you can also set specific waypoints along the route. As you reach each destination, the insoles will notify you. They can also be used offline to download maps beforehand. This is extremely helpful when going on a hike or traveling abroad.

Lechal insoles can also be used in tandem with the app to record data. See something of interest along the way? You can tag these locations for later use or send a location directly to a friend for a meetup. Or maybe you found a new trail or faster walk through the city. You can record the exact path for future excursions.

Another great use for the insole is tracking fitness. Set a goal using the Lechal app for any distance, step count, or calories to burn. The insoles will vibrate once you’ve reached your goal. As a step counter, you can’t get much more accurate than a sensor under your foot. When it says 10,000 steps, it means 10,000 steps.

You can purchase the Lechal Smart Insoles from the Amazon Launchpad program. Each pair of insoles are unisex and can be purchased for $180. The associated app can be downloaded for any iOS or Android device.

LECHAL teams up with Amazon Launchpad for retail launch in India

Lechal unisex insoles, one of its kind wearable technology product that is GPS navigated, is now available on Amazon Launchpad at Rs 6,999.

Lechal, the world’s first haptic-based interactive footwear, announced its partnership with Amazon Launchpad, a platform for startups to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of customers across the globe.

Lechal unisex insoles, one of its kind wearable technology product that is GPS navigated, is now available on Amazon Launchpad at Rs 6,999. Taking you to the future of footwear, Lechal reminds you your direction, keeps a record for your route and checks your fitness levels. The stylish smart insoles can slip into footwear like any other. By pairing the insoles with the Lechal app to Here Maps via Bluetooth, the user can set a destination and receive directions via haptic vibrations on his/her feet making any journey truly hands-free. The Lechal app is available on both android & IOS.

Speaking on the partnership with Amazon, Krispian Lawrence, founder and CEO Ducere Technologies said “It gives us immense pleasure to be a part of the Amazon Launchpad program. Lechal has been innovatively designed to offer something distinctive and redefine the way we navigate our world. We anticipate that this platform will help bring the product to a wider audience.”

Amazon Launchpad is a platform where customers can discover unique innovations from the world’s brightest startups. Amazon  has worked with leading venture capital firms, startup accelerators and crowd-funding platforms to help more than 500 startups to launch over 1500 cutting-edge products in the US, UK, Germany, France, China and Mexico.

“We are very excited to provide the Amazon Launchpad platform to Ducere Technologies to launch Lechal in India. Amazon Launchpad is a specially tailored program that helps start-ups like Ducere Technologies to showcase their unique and exciting products to millions of Amazon customers in India as well as globally. With Amazon Launchpad, we hope to augment the innovation culture among the Indian youth, support the Indian government’s Start-up India initiative and help build the India story,” says Jason Feldman, Director Global Innovations, Amazon.

 

GPS Bluetooth Enabled Navigation And Fitness Activity Tracker

GPS Navigation And More For Your Feet.

Lechal is a fashion and lifestyle brand that has been recognized globally for innovation, winning several awards and recognition, including Frost & Sullivan India's New Product Innovation Leadership Award and the second place at Rec@nnect Challenge, a partnership between CRDF Global and the United States Department of State in 2014. This year, Ducere has been selected as a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner and Krispian Lawrence was awarded Business World’s Young Entrepreneur Award. 

Since the genesis of Lechal was to harness haptics to help the visually-challenged, it has an accessible, inclusive design and features that also allow it to be used by the visually-impaired. 

World At your Feet
 Simply snap the Lechal pods into your smart footwear, set your destination in the app and you're good to go. No maps, no hands, no audio, no screen notifications, no distractions - just you and your super smart shoes!

Offline Navigation
It even works offline! Which means you can wander off with no data connectivity or get off a plane in a new country and Lechal will work, always in all ways.

 Fitness Activity Tracking 
Lechal counts steps and calories and measures the distance travelled. It logs your activity, so that you can keep track of your fitness.

Fitness-based Navigation
Even when you're using Lechal to navigate, fitness is not far behind as you can pick your route based on the metrics you can achieve.

Appsolutely Simple 
Lechal's app is its nerve centre from which you conanect to the pods, set your destination, create custom workouts and much more. It also reflects our core design principles of minimalism and user-centricity, and of course, fun! 
 
Power Efficient
Lasts 15 days on a single charge

Click here to buy Lechal Smart Navigation and Fitness Tracking Insoles and Buckles from store.lechal.com. 

Also availble in Amazon.com

Wearable Technology with Haptic Feedback

Wearable technology is a class of innovation gadgets that can be worn by a buyer and regularly incorporate following data identified with wellbeing and wellness. Other wearable tech contraptions incorporate gadgets that have little movement sensors to bring photographs and adjust with your cell phones.

 

The development of wearable innovation in the shopper hardware part is chiefly ascribed to expanding requests for wearable scanners and figuring gadgets in distribution center, logistics, and alternate operations where effectiveness is unavoidable. Consumer wearable gadgets incorporate a large group of items that are utilized as a part of shifted applications, for example, wellness and games, excitement and sight and sound, multi-capacity, and pieces of clothing and form. Wearable electronic gadgets find convincing applications in wellness and games. From keen wristwatches that record heart rates to smart groups that track physical exercises; wearabletechnology as wellness observing gadgets pull in expanding consideration from wellbeing cognizant purchasers. 

While fitness bands, smart watches and other different wearables are as of now settled in the business sector, a large portion of them have under-conveyed on desires.

With the focus in wearable technology heavily centered on devices that go on users' wrists and heads, Indian company has launched the Lechal smartshoe, which is the world's first interactive haptic feedback footwear. Lechal insoles works on the 'interactive haptic feedback' aspect, the way of vibrations in either feet alert users to a range of things including directions and nearby acquaintances. Lechal insoles pods sync up “with a smartphone that uses Google Maps and vibrate to tell users when and where to turn to reach their destination.” This is an exciting breakthrough in wearable technology.

Move with GPS Enabled Insoles for Smart Shoes

Insoles for Smart Shoes

Have you ever thought of a shoes that will show you the way to your destination? Just feed your destination on your shoes and it will help you to reach your destination.

An Indian start-up is promising to do the same in real life with some new, GPS-enabled smart shoe insoles “Lechal” that vibrates to give the wearer directions.

These insoles will also count the number of steps taken, distance travelled and calories burned. Lechal’s smart insoles can be trimmed to fit any shoe making them unisex and very practical. They contain the Lechal pod, which is the connected device also used in their line of shoes. The pod come with a detachable Bluetooth transceiver that links to a smartphone app to direct the wearer using Google maps, sending a vibrating signal to indicate a left or right turn.

These smart insole interacts with your smartphone giving you endless possibilities at your feet, you can set your destination and receive vibratory feedback showing you the way to go, set fitness goals, keep track of your steps and calories burnt, create workouts and track your activity. You can even get automatic notifications of landmarks around you, and an alert letting you know when you´ve left your phone behind. 

This sounds like a great navigational tool for anyone interested in subtle tech, but Lechal see their insoles as accessibility products. Visually impaired people can’t take advantage of many fitness trackers and navigational tools that others take for granted. By using haptic feedback for directions, visually impaired users can navigate new places after using the accessibility features on their smartphone.

The vibrations don’t just tell you left or right. There are different vibrations to orientate the user, send them in the right direction, and provide information about upcoming corners and their curvature. It’s a two-way system too as foot gestures can be used to tag locations, check if you’re going the right way, and even start and stop workouts.