How tech can save you from a hangover (or help you with your resolutions)

Earlier this month, the New York Times posed a question: can anything help a hangover? Last year, we uncovered quite a few tools to alleviate your hangovers — from noise canceling headphones to a morning recovery supplement.

Let’s take a look at the latest anti-hangover tech.

Myrkl is a pre-drinking pill which is meant to be "the first product in history to break down alcohol effectively.” It’s creation is 30 years in the making and was created by Swedish pharmaceutical company de Faire Medical.

According to Business Insider, it works. For $5, Myrkl will break down 70% of alcohol within an hour. Although the drinker felt some symptoms, they were seemingly mild in comparison.

The Welltory app helps with tracking and checking someone’s hangover. The user can indicate they are feeling hungover and Welltory will provide curated and personalized recommendations based on their health biomarkers to help them recover.

In addition to this, Welltory can chart and measure a user’s heart rate variability (HRV) while you are hungover, which can impact blood pressure and overall health.

Is wine your drink of choice this holiday season? You’re in luck. After learning that her hangovers were from a sensitivity to sulfite, a wine preservative, American inventor Jennifer Corcoran created WineRX Drop It. A few drops of this, which contains food-grade hydrogen peroxide, powdered egg whites and sunflower lecithin, helps to neutralize the sulfite to just a harmless ingredient.

If you’re ready to start the new year with embracing resolutions, there’s tech that can help. If you want hangovers to be a thing of the past entirely, there is always TRY DRY: The Dry January app. Cut down on your drinking, track the money you save by not drinking, and keep up with your health metrics.

You can fix your attention span to stay focused with the help of Forest. If you want to stay focused on a task, you plant a tree and it grows while you work. Leave the app? The (virtual) tree dies. Forest partners with real tree-planting organizations so when you earn virtual coins for planting trees, Forest donates trees to plant.

If you’re feeling a little sensitive after your New Year’s Eve plans, maybe try one of these science and tech solutions to feel better. You can at least order a pizza with one touch of your Apple watch.