The Lumo Lift is an intriguing entry into the wearables market. Rather than recording every piece of biometric data and bombarding you with metrics, it records one, often ­overlooked piece of data: your posture.

Given our increasingly sedentary existence, posture is becoming an important health issue. That’s something Lumo Lift wants to address. By wearing it just under your collarbone and telling it the kind of posture you want, it tracks how you move, sit, walk and rest during the day.

The gadget itself is only a few centimetres long and a couple of millimetres thick. It comes with a magnet which is designed to sit on one side of clothing with the device resting against the skin. It’s a novel and fairly effective method which prevents it from ­sticking to skin or clothing.

Position it, press it twice to get it to learn, wait for the vibration and then get on with your day. That’s about as much as you need to do. When you slip out of your chosen posture, the Lumo Lift will vibrate to remind you.

The Lumo Lift can also count steps much like other wearables such as Fitbit. It feeds this data over Bluetooth into an iOS only app for you to record or share it. Once paired with the app, the Lumo Lift will be ready to go.

The Lumo Lift is a neat idea with a couple of things missing. It would be ideal to have a posture correction mode, or even tips on how to improve posture in the app. There is also no ability to drill into the data it collects or set improvement goals. These functions would really enhance the experience. ­Otherwise it’s a solid device with real world benefits.

Jesmond Darmanin is a technology enthusiast who has his own blog at www.itnewsblog.com.