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Gatorade Introduces Smart Water Bottle To Help You Hydrate

The company’s $70 Smart Gx Bottle partners with a Sweat Patch and connects to a smartphone app.

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4 years ago

October 6, 2022

Nour Nasir

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Gatorade has made a smart water bottle that can help to determine your baseline hydration level and monitor post-workout recovery. The Smart Gx Bottle’s cap has a ring of LEDs that alert you when it’s time to top up your hydration levels, gently reminding you to keep your fluids topped up.

The smart bottle can be charged by USB cable, and as long as you remove the cap, it can happily be placed in a dishwasher — which is just as well, as Gatorade is also offering special pods that help to replenish electrolytes and carbs that are compatible with the Smart Gx Bottle.

Hydration levels can be monitored in the unique (iOS-only) Gx App, which also helps users with recovery recommendations, as well as giving nutrition and training advice. As well as the Smart Bottle, Gatorade has also developed a single-use wearable called the Sweat Patch, which, as the name suggests, monitors perspiration levels as a partner to the Smart Gx bottle.

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Smart water bottles with hydration level tracking have been around for several years, but Gatorade is a well-known brand, and hopes to use its reputation to offer a premium product that’s a cut above the typical crowd-funded affair.

The Smart Gx Bottle is now available on Gatorade’s website, costing $70. As an introductory offer, Gatorade will throw in a Sweat Patch and a pack of four hydration pods for no extra outlay.

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At I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai Concedes AI Must Deliver Real Value

Gemini 3.5, a personal agent called Spark, agentic shopping, and Android XR eyewear are all aimed at making AI feel useful, not just impressive.

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6 days ago

May 20, 2026

Nour Nasir

at io 2026 sundar pichai concedes ai must deliver real value

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Google’s annual I/O developer conference (I/O 2026) has recently become a status update on the same question: can the company turn its AI spending into products people use every day? This year, chief executive Sundar Pichai described Google as being in a phase of hyper progress, while conceding this is the part of the cycle where people want to see real value in the products they use on a day-to-day basis.

The strategy on display was to push agents — AI systems that act on a user’s behalf — into nearly every Google product at once. Search now has an “intelligent search box” that returns generated explainer videos alongside links. Gmail, Docs, YouTube and Maps are gaining their own agent layers, including a Docs Live feature that turns spoken instructions into drafted text with citations.

Two new models, Gemini 3.5 and a cheaper Gemini 3.5 Flash, arrived the same day. Google says 900 million people now use Gemini, and that more than 50 billion images have been generated with it. The pricing tier names are likely to confuse buyers: a new AI Ultra plan launches at $100 a month, while the older Gemini AI Ultra drops from $250 to $200.

The flashier announcements were Gemini Omni, a video generator pitched as a more realistic answer to OpenAI’s discontinued Sora 2, and Gemini Spark, a personal agent that handles recurring tasks across a user’s Google account. A new universal shopping cart lets agents complete purchases across multiple retailers from inside Google itself, placing the company between the merchant and the buyer, and also owning the checkout.

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Google also confirmed its Android XR eyewear, built with Samsung and frames from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. Audio-only glasses ship this autumn; a display-equipped version, which would superimpose live translations into the wearer’s field of view, is still in development. Both sets translate, however only the display version shows you the result.

What Pichai did not resolve is the bargain underneath all this. An agent is only useful to the degree it knows your calendar, your inbox, your shopping history and your physical surroundings. Google has now confirmed that, in time, the same context may carry advertising.