Fitness Trackers

Microsoft Just Killed Its Awful Fitness Tracker

It lived a short, pathetic, inconspicuous life, and now it’s probably going away forever. Microsoft has pulled listings of its fitness tracker—the Band 2—from its online store. In a statement given to ZDNet, the company says it has sold existing inventory of the Band 2, and it has no plans to release a new version…

Tech News Michael Nunez Oct 3

Fitbit Charge 2 Is the Best Fitness Tracker, Period

Fitbit is quickly becoming the Xerox or Kleenex of fitness trackers, but its popularity hasn’t come without a few hurdles. With the Fitbit Charge 2, we finally get a device that’s polished enough to justify the hype. When the Fitbit Charge and Fitbit Charge HR hit the market nearly two years ago, it seemed like…

Reviews Christina Warren Sep 26

That Fitness Tracker Might Actually Make Losing Weight Harder

Activity monitors are supposed to help us reach our fitness goals, but when it comes to staying motivated, you might want to look beyond your wrist. In a study published in JAMA on Tuesday, researchers found that fitness trackers weren’t the boon to longterm weight loss they expected them to be, with users dropping far…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Sep 21

Withings Hides Top Fitness Tracking Features in Attractive Watch

The Withings Activité, and the far more affordable Withings Activité Pop, showed the world that fitness trackers don’t necessarily have to look hideous. And while the new heart rate-tracking Steel HR makes some aesthetic compromises to gain smartwatch functionality, it’s still one of the most beautiful wearables you can buy. Instead of using an LCD…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 1

TomTom Touch Tracks How Much You Walk and Just How Fat You Are

TomTom’s latest fitness device, the TomTom Touch, tracks your steps, monitors your sleep, and lets you know how your body fat is doing. All for roughly the price of a Fitbit. TomTom says the Touch is the first fitness tracker to measure body composition analysis. From what we can tell, this isn’t strictly true, but…

Tech News Christina Warren Sep 1

Fitbit Finally Updated Its Very Best Trackers

The Fitbit Charge HR is a very good fitness tracker. One might argue, and we certainly have, that it’s the best fitness tracker available. But the Fitbit Charge HR is nearly two years old, and it has been plagued by issues over the last year. It’s time for a refresh and a refinement. The Fitbit…

Tech News Alex Cranz Aug 29

McDonald’s Plan to Put Fitness Trackers in Happy Meals Is a Cruel Joke

Letting kids eat a lot of McDonald’s is a great way to make them fat. But sometimes parents can’t resist buying food that’s so cheap and addictive. Thankfully, the geniuses at McDonald’s have happily come up with a solution for every potential heart condition that rolls into a Mickey D’s drive-through. McDonald’s will soon begin…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 17

Polar’s New Fitness Tracker Is a Full-on Android Smartwatch

We were disappointed when Polar sacrificed the GPS capabilities of the M400 smart sports watch so that its A300, revealed in early 2015, could hit the market with a cheaper price tag. But affordability is apparently no longer as important to the company as features, because Polar’s new M600 is a full-on Android Wear smartwatch.…

Health Andrew Liszewski Aug 3

7 Fitbit Features You Need to Unlock

Fitbits are a great way to track your activity and encourage yourself to get off the couch. Now, popular web service IFTTT (If This Then That) is getting in on the action. Here’s how you can use IFTTT to plug fitness data from any Fitbit into a host of other services and apps. If you’re…

Gadgets David Nield Jun 20

Samsung Gear Fit2 Is a Genuinely Great Blend of Smartwatch and Fitness Tracker

We were wolfing down lunch in a dank Austin chili parlor, and I flicked my wrist. The time flashed, blue and bright on the OLED screen, and my friend’s eyes darted to the wearable. “What is that,” she asked—her interest piqued—her need for some perfect blend of Fitbit and Apple Watch apparent. It’s the Samsung…

Reviews Alex Cranz Jun 17

Samsung Returns to the Fitness Game With Wireless Earbuds and Gear Fit2

It’s that time of year where the checkout line is a confusing myriad of treats, and magazines maligning you for said treats. From the dudely “fitness” magazines to the lady-aimed “lifestyle” guides they’re all telling you to get that bod ready for the beach. But it’s not just the media telling you to move your…

Gadgets Alex Cranz Jun 2

This Dude’s Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life

A 42-year-old man from New Jersey recently showed up in an emergency ward following a seizure. After looking at the data collected by his Fitbit Charge HR, the doctors decided to reset his heart rate with an electrical cardioversion. It’s the first time in history that a fitness tracker was used in this way. When…

Tech News George Dvorsky Apr 7

Fitbit Alta Review: This Is Why People Like Fitness Trackers

Everyone knows Fitbit: The proud Fitbit data announcements of that dude from high school on Facebook, the friend who wears a Zip on their hip or your coworker with a Charge on their wrist. It’s the best-known name in fitness trackers. But it’s had a rough time lately. People slammed its first genuine smartwatch, the…

Reviews Alex Cranz Mar 25

Brilliant Dieting Software For People Who Are Too Lazy to Track Calories

If software is needlessly complex and tedious, almost no one is going to use it. This fundamental tenant of technology has been one of the biggest barriers for any kind of widespread embrace of calorie tracking. Researchers at MIT are looking to change things with a new voice-activated prototype for logging nutrition. Counting calories requires…

Health Darren Orf Mar 24

Standing Desks Are ‘Fashionable’ Without Any Real Benefits, Says Research

Standing desks are the latest way to trade comfort for the moral high ground, and their health benefits have always been dubious at best. Following an analysis of studies into their benefits, researchers have come up with a loud, resounding “meh”. A paper in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews analyzed 20 studies that looked…

Tech News Chris Mills Mar 21

Every Doctor’s Business Card Should Have a Built-in Heart Rate Monitor

It’s now a standard feature on any fitness tracking wearable worth considering, but this is the first time someone has managed to squeeze a working ECG—or electrocardiograph—into something as thin and compact as a business card. Unlike the heart rate monitors included on smartwatches and fitness trackers that use an LED and a tiny optical…

Health Andrew Liszewski Mar 1

Garmin’s vívofit 3 Fitness Tracker Detects Exactly How You’re Staying Active

With smartwatches and phones gaining activity tracking capabilities, dedicated fitness trackers have needed to find new gimmicks to stay relevant. Batteries that lasted a full year without charging was a great start, as is the Move IQ technology in Garmin’s new vívofit 3 that can recognize your different activities. Although the vívofit 3 appears to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 19

Woman Does Lord’s Work, Makes Smart Vibrator

The vagina and clitoris are mysterious things. No, seriously they are. Scientists make big bucks studying the penis, but the vagina and clitoris often languish in official research circles. They languish in the bedroom too. Lesbians (intimately familiar with the pootenanny) experience significantly more orgasms then straight or bisexual woman. If woman aren’t getting down…

Tech News Alex Cranz Feb 12

Fitbit Doubles Down on Fashion With Fitbit Alta

At CES Fitbit released the Blaze, a different type of fitness accessory that was as much focused on fashion as fitness. Fitbit seems to be running with the idea, literally, with the new Fitbit Alta bracelet. The Alta packs in a lot of the convenient features that also made their way to the Blaze. The…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 3

Users Are Suing Fitbit Over Inaccurate Heart Monitors

Just days after its shares dropped a whopping 18%, Fitbit just took another big hit. The wearables company has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit alleging that its heart rate monitoring technology is inaccurate, and that the company is knowingly misleading users. A trio of users launched the lawsuit and claim that Fitbit’s PurePulse heart…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jan 7

Microsoft Just Killed Its Awful Fitness Tracker

Fitbit Charge 2 Is the Best Fitness Tracker, Period

That Fitness Tracker Might Actually Make Losing Weight Harder

Withings Hides Top Fitness Tracking Features in Attractive Watch

TomTom Touch Tracks How Much You Walk and Just How Fat You Are

Fitbit Finally Updated Its Very Best Trackers

McDonald’s Plan to Put Fitness Trackers in Happy Meals Is a Cruel Joke

Polar’s New Fitness Tracker Is a Full-on Android Smartwatch

7 Fitbit Features You Need to Unlock

Samsung Gear Fit2 Is a Genuinely Great Blend of Smartwatch and Fitness Tracker

Samsung Returns to the Fitness Game With Wireless Earbuds and Gear Fit2

This Dude’s Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life

Fitbit Alta Review: This Is Why People Like Fitness Trackers

Brilliant Dieting Software For People Who Are Too Lazy to Track Calories

Standing Desks Are ‘Fashionable’ Without Any Real Benefits, Says Research

Every Doctor’s Business Card Should Have a Built-in Heart Rate Monitor

Garmin’s vívofit 3 Fitness Tracker Detects Exactly How You’re Staying Active

Woman Does Lord’s Work, Makes Smart Vibrator

Fitbit Doubles Down on Fashion With Fitbit Alta

Users Are Suing Fitbit Over Inaccurate Heart Monitors

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