Natalie Rowan

The Challenge

Make weight-lifting a beginner sport, from the comfort of one’s home.
AI-enabled everything is the trend-of-current, personal training not to be left out.
How might we use AI to make the strength training experience intuitive, simple, fun, safe, and compact within a pair of dumbbells?

The Experience

As Kabata dumbbells are lifted for the first time, they default to a light weight to test strength and ability. Instantaneously, an array of hidden sensors in the knurled aluminum handles start to track reps, form, movement, acceleration, and heart rate, and formulate an AI-driven training guide for the user’s assessed level of fitness.

As a user cycles through their customized training session, Kabata’s patented transmission shifts weights on-the-fly, increasing and decreasing, to keep muscles optimally engaged throughout the workout.

However, hard work is also balanced with play. To gamify the experience, haptic motors in each handle, paired with a guided app, rumble in detectable frequencies to communicate specific actions or sentiments, such as, to lift a little higher to complete full extension, or to celebrate completing a new level.

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