Berlin – September 08, 2026 -- ODYSS, winner of the IFA Innovation Award 2026, has unveiled the ODYSS N1, a smart necklace designed to eliminate manual food logging by tracking meals automatically in the background.

Wearables have mastered sleep and activity tracking, but nutrition has lagged behind

More than 300 million users are registered on major food-tracking apps, yet long-term adherence remains rare. A 2015 University of Washington CHI study attributes the drop-off to data-entry fatigue and social discomfort with logging meals in front of others. ODYSS aims to remove that friction entirely.

A G-sensor and wide-angle camera detect when the device is worn and when someone is eating

Contact sensors confirm whether the necklace is being worn, while the camera captures visual food cues and hand-to-mouth movement patterns to identify eating behavior automatically, without requiring the user to type or photograph anything themselves.

The device generates three nutrition scores to translate raw data into daily guidance

ODYSS N1 produces separate scores for meal quality, energy, and eating rhythm, explaining how each meal affects energy levels, recovery, and sleep. Unlike smartwatches, which measure energy expenditure but not intake, the necklace is built specifically to close that gap in a person's health picture.

A physical switch lets users disable all sensing functions instantly

ODYSS says privacy protections are built into the hardware itself rather than added later. The device defaults to a silent mode that reduces sensor activity when the wearer isn't eating. On the software side, ODYSS states it processes only food-related information, automatically filtering out everything else, blurring faces and identifying features in captured images, and deleting raw footage once processing is complete.