Wellograph is an activity tracker, heart rate monitor, pedometer and stopwatch in one that delivers live, insightful information about wearar’s activity through simple infographic interface… More here. $320. Sorry, but I don’t see what justifies the price here. It doesn’t appear… Read More ›
Wareable
One option for Fitbit’s survival
The fitness-tracker maker has had a good run but has failed in its efforts to innovate soon enough and diversify quickly enough into new, emerging markets. While Fitbit has cobbled together an impressive array of companies that could help change… Read More ›
Fitness Trackers Don’t Help You Lose Weight
If you love your Fitbit, prepare yourself. This story might bring you down. A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that fitness trackers don’t help you lose weight. Instead, they may impede your efforts…. Read More ›
Fitbit’s new ‘mass appeal’ smartwatch – no lugs
The leak over at Wareable of the new smartwatch from Fitbit is surprising because of the amount of detail on offer. It is less surprising that the design seems to lack imagination and especially so because the company bought Pebble… Read More ›
Is Apple is taking over the watch industry?
Total Apple Watch sales for 2017 topped 18 million—up by more than 50% compared to the year before. Though Apple has been making watches since 2015, the sales figures for the product have been bundled with other wearables, causing some… Read More ›
Close Your Rings
Decent new site from Apple designed to help you close your rings. I must admit though that I still don’t get the ring thing when it comes to health improvement. Feels a bit like a gimmick to me.
Xiaomi Amazfit Bip
1,Ultra-Long Standby Battery: a full charge of 2.5 hours can last for maximum of 4 months on watch mode, 45 days on running mode and 22 hours on GPS + running mode. No need to take charger or power bank…. Read More ›
Forget walking 10,000 steps a day
These days it is hard to walk the streets without running into someone who is anxiously looking at their wrist to see if they are on target to reach the magic 10,000 steps. Is it really a goal worth striving… Read More ›
A Concise History Of The Smartwatch
The watches that had caught my attention were a Seiko wrist computer called MessageWatch and a prototype of a phone watch developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. in Japan that would ultimately be called Wristomo. “The ‘new quartz’ trend… Read More ›
vívofit® 4
Features always-on customizable color display and 1+ year battery life¹; no charging necessary Tracks steps, distance and calories burned, monitors sleep and provides a personalized daily step goal² Safe for swimming and showering³ Periodically syncs to Garmin Connect™, where you… Read More ›