Visit: /desktop to download Windows App.ĭon’t have a compatible device? Visit: /compatibilityĮnter your email address and create a password.Įnter your name, age, height, weight, and gender. Windows 7+ PC’s: Requires purchase of our proprietary Bluetooth dongle. Press on the Lift icon and select the green “Install” button. Search for "Lumo Lift" in the search bar. Press “Get” to download.Īndroid Device: Find and open the Google Play Store on your phone. Click “Search” and search for "Lumo Lift" in the search bar. IOS Device: Find and open the App Store on your phone. The sensor will light up with an orange dot while charging and will turn green once the charge is complete. Ensure the gold dots on the back of the sensor line up with the gold prongs on the charger. Final tally: ten hours of good posture, with only two feeling like I was living in the board game Operation.Plug the charger into your computer or a wall adapter. I’ve had a few glasses of Laphroaig (18 percent good posture this hour) and call it a day. My problem is clear: I sit better than I walk.ġ1 p.m. I go home after grocery shopping and look at the last hour’s data-oh, no, only 1 percent good posture! Then I notice a daylong pattern: During hours when I walked more, my posture was worse. Wouldn’t you know it-I had 83 percent good posture during the last hour, the second-best I’ll have all day.ħ p.m. I can’t stand it any longer and turn the damn coach mode off but continue to sit upright.Ĥ p.m. I lurch backward, trying to find my equilibrium. I lean over to look at a colleague’s computer. I sit unnaturally upright, like a marionette. During the last coaching session, the buzzing was occasional. I join my colleagues at a table-the first time I’ve sat down while being coached-and Lumo flips out. Time for an hour-long meeting, so I turn coach mode back on. Lumo reports 3 percent good posture that hour. I meet a friend for lunch, and we perch on bar stools eating catfish tacos. But Lumo has my reward: I was in good posture for 93 percent of the hour!ġ p.m. Is that even how breathing works? I Google it. It’s as if, with my body in alignment, air somehow traveled more smoothly down to my lungs. The only parts of me moving are my eyeballs and wrists on a keyboard.ġ1:45 a.m. I return to my desk-buzz!-and settle back into my Roman-sculpture impersonation. I’m called into a meeting-the cross-office walk earns a buzz-then arrive and stand statuesque throughout. I stiffen my back and start it up.ġ1:01 a.m. I’m ready for Lumo’s big challenge: an hour of coach mode, in which the device buzzes every time I slouch. Who’s that a challenge for, I wonder-the Hunchback of Notre Dame? But after two hours, one at my standing desk, my results reveal I’m no overachiever: 58 percent during hour one and 49 percent in hour two.ġ1 a.m. Every hour, Lumo says, my goal should be to maintain good posture 40 percent of the time. But now I’m self-conscious is leaning technically bad posture? I stand up straight.ġ0:45 a.m. On the subway platform, I assume my usual position of leaning against a dirty green pole. It tells me today’s goal is four hours of good posture-a nice low bar to start out with, like challenging me to not get drunk before lunch. With the Lift affixed near my collarbone, as instructed, I stand tall and press its button for three seconds to “align.” This is how Lumo learns my perfect posture.Ĩ:45 a.m.
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