11 Devices For Hacking Your Health — 8. Pavlok

Even with a wearable device at hand, people still often have trouble adhering to their goals enough to create real behavior change. Pavlok aims to be a wearable that truly coaches its users into changing their habits...by shocking them. Whether your aim is to wake up earlier, accomplish a fitness goal, or even set aside a focused time to get some work done, Pavlok will tap into the power of negative reinforcement and literally shock you into action. The wristband also has social feature that can enable your friends to help you along with your goals by sending remote shocks to you.