Does praying burn calories? Here’s the pope’s $110 e-rosary

The Vatican continues to take great pains to bring Catholic faith into the modern era, and this week it’s transforming the faithful rosary — adapting today’s popular fitness tracker idea into a $110 bracelet that tracks your prayers. No, we’re not joking: this is a real gadget launched at a Vatican press conference whose specs include: Six-axis inertial sensing Bluetooth 5.0 IP67 water and dust resistance Wireless charging a 15mAh lithium-ion battery 10 black agate beads and 11 hematite beads It’s basically an adapted fitness tracker, and it still doubles as a fitness tracker, too: “Once the prayer begins, the smart rosary shows the user’s progress throughout the different mysteries and keeps track of each rosary... Continue reading…