The Stratos 3 has obviously been ‘inspired’ by the Garmin fenix in the same way that almost every laptop we see today was inspired by the MacBook and how every phone appears to look like almost every other phone. In… Read More ›
Fitness
The charge 5 actually looks good
Meet our most advanced fitness & health tracker with tools like an on-wrist ECG app for heart health,** EDA Scan app for stress management and more. Get a 6-month membership of Fitbit Premium™*** and optimize your routine with Daily Readiness… Read More ›
The HUAWEI Band 6 is surprisingly good
The large, high screen-to-body ratio display not only looks good, it also gives you more of the data you want. Bigger photos, more exercise stats, and constant heart rate monitoring can be shown in stunning detail. And have more freedom… Read More ›
Smartwatch Wars Part One: Garmin Instinct Solar vs Apple Watch series 6
The Garmin Instinct Solar is everything the Apple Watch series 6 is not and vice versa. I can think of no two products so different that technically do the same core thing, but the gap between the two is gigantic…. Read More ›
Our understanding of “long COVID”
For this preliminary entry to the long COVID discourse, researchers in the JAMA study isolated 875 subjects from the health monitor-wearing database (all of whom wear Fitbits), and compared those who had tested positive with COVID to those who had… Read More ›
Apple doesn’t always know what we want
Apple is famous for not using focus groups of following the trend for what users want and this has paid dividends. The ability to impress consumers can only come from offering something people either believed was not possible or that… Read More ›
What your resting heart rate says about you
The advent of fitness trackers, pulse oximeters and home blood pressure machines means you can easily monitor your heart rate while doing everything from training for a marathon to sleeping at night. However, it is the resting rate during the… Read More ›
A different kind of fitness tracker
We all know the Apple Watch, Fitbit and other fitness trackers that sit on the wrist, but there are alternatives that help you get fit in a less obvious way. Most are not well known and I am not recommending… Read More ›
The Garmin Enduro
There is one area that stands out in the new Garmin Enduro and it is extremely impressive- Smartwatch: Up to 50 days/65 days with solar*Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 130 days/1 year with solar*GPS: Up to 70 hours/80 hours… Read More ›
Amazon Halo review
Throughout the day, the Halo automatically tracks the intensity and duration of your movement, as well as your sedentary time. Taking these factors into account, it gives you an Activity Score. Informed by recommendations from the American Heart Association, the… Read More ›
