- Hi I'm Paris and I know fitness bands are all the rage
right now several family members here wear them on and off.
And have tried different models with limited success.
I recently reviewed and as seen on TV fitness band
very basic model, none of them really stand out
until this company Boslin,
sent me out their Smart Band
to try out it has a very unique feature that I
have never seen in a fitness band before.
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This tiny little box contains a fitness band that measures
your step, your sleep, connects via Bluetooth to an app.
All of that but the unique thing it does is it also
takes your blood pressure on demand.
Instead of carrying a blood pressure machine around
with you if you need to keep an eye on your blood pressure
what if you could just wear it right on your wrist
and anytime you needed a reading
just tap a button and there it goes?
And this is so tiny to be able to do it.
I'm going to try out the various features of this.
I'm going to take my blood pressure with this
and with my regular machine and see how the results compare
this Boslin B15 Smart Band model goes for about 30 dollars
and you can find the link down below this video.
In the box comes a Smart Band,
should be one size fits all strap, the instructions,
I think a lot of this is done
through the app, and a charging little cradle.
So the little things in there are what do the charging.
I'm thinking this might be like the Fitbit where you have
to pop the device out of the band and slide it in here
to charge but you only have to do it once every three days.
A little poking around and I found out that yes,
this is the active piece this is the strap
it's fairly easy to poke it out
and it slides into this piece.
Plug it into a standard phone charger to charge it up
and I'll be back when it is and we'll see how it works.
Smart Band charged up in a couple of hours.
I'm gonna put it back into the bracelet, turn it on
and I have downloaded the app onto my phone.
It's right now searching via Bluetooth for this.
The app is suggesting that my height and weight
I ought to do 26,000 steps a day.
Which is probably a pretty good goal
that's gonna be a tough one though.
The Smart Band collects the information and then transfers
it to the app this is a lot like the Fitbit.
They keep track of how many hours you've slept.
The number of steps you've taken and you can go in
and have it run that blood pressure scan.
Here's the screen this is the time and date and each time
you tap it it goes through the different informational
screens and one of them, that one, turns on these lights
on the back that do the scanning of you.
And we're back to that with a little practice you can learn
the flip that turns the screen on
so you don't have to tap it, it takes a little practice.
They also say to have this secure but not too tight
because that will affect the blood pressure reading
so I think I have it, well, maybe I ought to tighten it
up one more so it runs through here it snaps and you can see
it would fit a wrist fair good bigger than mine.
In the instructions you can see the different functions.
Apparently it will even tell you the number
of someone who's calling you.
I have my Omron blood pressure machine, I've been using
this for years it's very accurate when I test it here
and then go to the doctor's office it's always very close.
So we'll see what this has to say and we'll see what
this has to say, the Omron shows me with a blood pressure
of 111 over 66 with a pulse rate of 61.
(sits machine down)
Now, I'm assuming this isn't going to inflate.
There's no pump in it or anything so I'm going to tap
through the options to the one that looks like a
thermometer they say.
That's my heart rate beats per minute,
I'll do that one after, okay.
I guess I'll just sit here and wait a bit.
104 over 69.
Yeah I need the glasses apparently,
104 over 69
111 over 66,
not bad actually.
What I'm curious about is
how does it know my blood pressure?
It didn't inflate or anything on the inside here
there are two little lights which I understand they can
get your pulse by somehow or another anyway
they can see through your skin and sense the blood
going by and get the pulse but how that relates to
blood pressure I don't know but I'm impressed that
though it's not exactly one percent type of accurate.
It's actually fairly accurate, time to go out for a walk
wearing the Smart Band and then go to sleep tonight
wearing the Smart Band and I should get a pretty good
idea I pretty much know how much sleep I get so
I'll compare that and give you those results tomorrow.
So I've been wearing the Smart Band for a day now.
I did take it off to get in the shower.
I know it's water resistant I didn't know about waterproof.
I went to set it for sleep mode when I went to bed last
night but I wasn't quite sure how it worked.
But I see when it did the data transfer into the app
that it does have a record of me having a rather restless
night of sleep last night because I started coming down
with a cold and was coughing a lot.
So let me show you on the app how I've been doing.
Since waking up today I've done 4300 steps that's over
the course of six hours.
Here are my steps it says I had a maximum of 513
I don't know if that's per hour.
You can see the peak right there I was over having the
car worked on and while that was going on I was walking
around so that represents those steps.
My sleep time as recorded by this, again I don't think
it had anything to do with me pushing buttons,
was from about midnight to six AM and I am thinking
the larger bump areas are where I slept well and the other
areas are when I was awake or restless,
I'll have to read up on that.
Here's a record of my heart rate I didn't realize it was
checking it regularly I thought it was only when I pressed
the button but it seems to be in the sixties
most of the time but something happened around 11 o'clock
this morning that I must have found particularly exciting.
And I haven't had it take my blood pressure today
but I did try it several times yesterday and compared it
with my big expensive blood pressure testing machine
and it's always within a few points
both the top and bottom number.
So while other family members swear by their Fitbits
I'm really liking this unit from Boslin, thank you again
for sending this out for me to try.
It's for 30 dollars you get pretty much the features
I see with the Fitbit plus it does, somehow magically does
the blood pressure, without having to inflate a cuff.
I'm really impressed by the technology they put into this
for the price and I'm going to be wearing this for a while
to keep track of my health, if you'd like to find out more
about the B15 Smart Band I have a link to it right down
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