What is Zing?
Zing combines the best features of a top line smart watch and offers more fun and interaction than a standard fitness tracker in an affordable price bracket of around £50.
The product comes with a free connected app and has features chosen to appeal to a wide range of users.
Ludo Chapman, Commercial Director said “We wanted to create a brand which fits into the lives of the people who will use it and not be a standalone piece of technology demanding your instant attention. Zing is about you, how you feel, the people who are close to you and what you're into.”
- With Zing you can simply visualise your activity over time, and use it to track and share your day with our unique Zing diary. The most notable thing from user testing shows how people start to become more mindful of being active without really making a conscious effort to do so.
- Zing allows you to play and shuffle your music with just a flick of the wrist and the phone stays in your bag or pocket - it is so incredibly easy.
- Take killer group selfies using it as a remote selfie control and put them in the diary or share them on other social media apps.
- Zing-ER messaging offers the chance to build closed and private friendship groups and send animated messages and even virtual kisses by just blowing onto the Zing.
- The on-board games can be used to pass the time or even resolve arguments by the flip of a virtual coin.
- It can be worn on the wrist, as a pendant or in your pocket in the form of a pebble.
Justin Pisani, founder, said “18 months ago we had some pictures and an idea and sat down and said we were going to make this happen. Its shows the company has all the right attributes to be a modern, hi-tech design and manufacturing business – speed, strong product design skill, a good network of global suppliers and lots of ideas”
Zing forms the start of a whole range of connected products and services the company intends to bring to market.
"We won’t lose our mission to remain fun and interesting with Zing - next year will see us develop both the zing-ER messaging platform along with some exciting retail and web content interactions.
We will also diversify the product range into targeted areas such as wellbeing and into internet connected products which share our technology. With wellbeing we are particularly interested in helping communities, young and old, to deal with the challenges of living with health or lifestyle issues. Plenty of folks are working on treating the condition but we want to help with things which make life feel harder, like isolation and a lack of support or friendship”
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