LYCOS Internet forays into wearable devices with LYCOS Life

LYCOS Internet Limited (NSE: LYCOS| BSE: LYCOS.BO) today announced the launch of LYCOS Life’s products (https://lycos.life), a new line of wearable tech accessories, and the LYCOS Life Project, a humanitarian initiative providing critical environmental information across the globe.

LYCOS Life devices serve as a single point of entry into users’ digital lives as well as users’ own personal “Mission Control”. Initially delivered in the form of a wristband (Rs. 7500) and ring (Rs. 3500), LYCOS Life products allow users to live secure, communicative, healthy and efficient lives. Its onboard sensors, personal security manager, Tap2Transfer capabilities, and advanced fitness monitor simplify users’ daily lives and allow them to make smarter decisions.

“The most valuable commodity in life is time and this technology helps LYCOS Life users maximize their time by making smarter and more informed decisions using the data they receive from LYCOS Life,” saidBrad Cohen, president & chief strategy officer of LYCOS.

Soon, LYCOS Life will be able to uniquely identify its wearer by using its onboard sensors to recognize its user simply by the way they move."We have been living and learning the Internet for the past 20 years, now the Internet is starting to learn us,” said Suresh Reddy, Chairman and CEO of LYCOS. “Originally, what LYCOS set out to solve was simplifying and making searching on the Internet more productive.  As we celebrate our 20th Anniversary this year, LYCOS is solving a new problem by simplifying your digital life.”

Reddy said LYCOS has developed software that can learn who you are, what you prefer, and what you do based on your own patterns and behaviors.  “All of this is done securely by allowing you to control your own personal data and never sharing this information.”  

LYCOS Life products collaborate with the free LYCOS Life app to simplify multiple facets of users’ everyday lives.

LYCOS Life securely and seamlessly logs in to your favorite apps and websites on your phone, easily unlocking them without the use of passwords. The security manager eliminates the need to remember your jumble of passwords scribbled down on sticky notes across your desk. With LYCOS Life, access to your phone is just a tap away.

Collaboration between LYCOS Life devices is enabled by Tap2Transfer (T2T) communication. With a simple tap from their LYCOS Life device to a phone, users can securely give a new friend their number, clients a business card, or instantly share an address to launch directions to a restaurant.

The LYCOS Life activity tracker allows users to easily monitor steps, calories burned, speed and heart rate. LYCOS Life helps users meet goals and its reminders motivate them to get up and get moving. The LYCOS Life heart rate monitor and live EKG/ECG readout help wearers improve their workouts and allows them to view their heart activity instantaneously.

The LYCOS Life Project, a not-for-profit foundation, will give families the power to instantly test the quality of the water and air in their homes and communities with small portable sensors given to them for free by the LYCOS Life Project.

Information from these sensors will be used as an early warning system to help people detect and uncover patterns of growing environmental problems in their homes and communities. This information can be shared in real-time with the user’s family, community, and the rest of the world. The data will be permanently and openly available to individuals, NGOs and schools worldwide.

“The Life Project will provide basic tools that can lead to healthier living situations for millions of children and their families,” said Brad Cohen, president and chief strategy officer of LYCOS. “Our future rests with our children; happier and healthier kids can directly lead to a more peaceful and productive future for all.”

The LYCOS Life project will target communities with high population densities, and high levels of air and water pollution in order to provide children and their families with a better quality of life.

“As a global corporation, operating in 24 countries and five continents, LYCOS is evolving technology to make an impact in people’s lives. At the same time, we believe it is our responsibility to give back to the communities we operate in,” said Suresh Reddy, Chairman and CEO of LYCOS. 

Five percent of the sales from LYCOS’ new line of wearable tech accessories, LYCOS Life, will be donated to this global humanitarian initiative. LYCOS Life products serve as a single point of entry into users’ digital lives and allow them to live more secure, communicative, healthy, and efficient lives. To learn more, visithttps://lycos.life.

LYCOS is one of the original and most widely known Internet companies in the world, evolving from one of the first search engines on the web, into a comprehensive digital media destination for consumers across the world.