January 9, 2013
Showstoppers CES 2013 in Las Vegas was once again loaded with exhibitors with interesting products and services. One of them was an app just announced at CES, “GPS for the Soul” by the Huffington Post.
As Arianna Huffington explains, “The GPS for the Soul app is designed to work in conjunction with the GPS for the Soul section on the Huffington Post, HuffPost’s new stress-reduction daily email newsletter and GPS for the Soul online services provided by our partners, such as talktala and meQuilibrium. The app measures your heart rate and heart rate variability which, taken together, are a proxy for stress levels. The app then connects you to a personalized guide that offers music, poetry, breathing exercises and pictures of your loved ones that can help you re-center and de-stress. Or you can access the guides of stress-reduction experts, other users or your friends.
Our GPS for the Soul sections will be a hub for great content by groups working in this field that will help our users not only increase their awareness of their stress and be able to course-correct, but also go deeper and identify the root causes. We’re joining forces with talktala, the online group conversation platform that brings people together to discuss the most important issues in their lives, and meQuilibrium, the digital coaching site that uses the latest science and research to help users better understand and reduce their stress.”
The app which is free gauges your emotional state, delivers stress tips and breathing pacer that helps you regulate your breathing.
I’m not sure how well this app will work but I give Arianna and her team credit for addressing this wide-spread issue many people in this high stress world are dealing with. Here’s hoping the “GPS for the Soul” finds it way to help bring peace.
