Lycos Life Band and Ring Wearables Launched in India for Rs 7,500 and Rs 3,500 Respectively

Lycos  announced its entry into the wearable device market in India with its Lycos Life brand. It has launched the Lycos Band and Lycos Ring. While the Band is priced at Rs. 7,500 , the Ring comes at Rs. 3,500. Users can buy the devices from the company’s website.

 Lycos Life devices are supposed “serve as a single point of entry into users’ digital lives as well as users’ own personal ‘Mission Control”. The Lycos Band has fitness tracking features in addition to what the Lycos Ring offers. It features a set of sensors, fitness monitors, all of which would collaborate with Lycos Life app on the user’s handsets and provide information on the number of steps user has taken, calories burned, speed and heart rate.

The Lycos Band would also let users set a daily goal and can also help them keep motivated by giving reminders, says Lycos. The Lycos Band also house heart rate monitor and live EKG/ECG to improve the user’s workout routines and let them view their heart activity. The wearable devices will also allow users to automatically monitor their incoming calls, and important notifications from their phone completely hands-free.

The firm says both the Lycos Life wearables have the capability to intelligently sense individuals’ everyday patterns and transfer this information securely and wirelessly to their phone via Bluetooth and its Tap2Transfer (T2T) communication protocol. Users would also be able to share their phone numbers, business cards and address to launch directions to a restaurant