Upright Go
Improve your posture
£69.95 FROM Upright, uprightpose.com Features Posture sensor, adhesive strips, companion iOS app
Upright Go is the tech equivalent of a bad-tempered schoolteacher yelling at you to sit up straight. The hardware resembles a tiny computer mouse, which you wear on your back, and there’s an app too, of course.
The app and wearable quickly connect, and the calibration happens by you sitting up straight and pressing a button on your iPhone’s screen.
Upright Go defaults to training mode. This buzzes when you heavily slouch – great when desk-bound, but annoying when, for example, you are attempting to remove a toddler’s coat and it keeps going BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ. Thanks, tiny white tech limpet!
You can adjust sensitivity and volume levels, but for extended general use, you’re better off with the recordingonly tracking mode, which guilts you at the end of the day with graphs showing when you’ve failed to sit up straight. (The battery lasts about 10 hours. A recharge takes an hour.)
We have some reservations about the adhesive strips used to stick Upright Go to your person. You only get five in the box (which last a week or two each), and must then buy packs of 10 for £9.99. All in all, though, Upright Go is unobtrusive, very smartly designed, and could help if you want to improve your posture.