i.Con is a smart condom that can warn you about STDs amongst "other" details

British Condoms, a condom manufacturer has come up with a smart condom that well… gets more things done than your regular condom. Called the i.Con, it has not been designed to enhance your performance. However, the smart condom is ‘smart’ and in this day and age of smart watches and wearables, this one could save your life and help you measure a few other details during sex.

For beginners, the i.Con is not a condom per se, but a wearable for your penis. It’s a condom ring that sits at the base of your penis over a condom and basically records data during sex.

And no, it does not allow you to share your statistics on social media (for now).

The wearable condom ring uses a nano-chip and couple of sensors that are used to measure a few details (that some may be interested in) like number of thrusts, calories burned, average skin temperature, girth measurement, manage the frequency of sex sessions and different positions (available as beta). It’s made of a strong synthetic rubber that packs in a tiny waterproof carbon fibre unit, which is where that chips and sensors reside that is similar to the design of say your Mi Band  only smaller.

After you are done with your session, you simply slip out the wearable condom ring and download the data using the integrated micro USB port. If you were wondering, the same micro USB port can be used to charge the wearable as well.

The wearable smart condom is available for pre-order in the UK at price tag of GBP 59.99 (roughly Rs 5,000).

And all of the above are not the important bits about the wearable. Here’s where things get really interesting.

The team that developed the i.Con told Mashable that the wearable claims that it can also double up as an STD indicator.

According to the team, the i.Con packs in an “antibodies filter” which will send an alert to the smartphone when it detects proteins or antigens found in STIs. For now, the feature is not out yet, but is in the final stages of medical testing, so expect it to be out soon via a software update.