Fitness tracking

Wearables Are Getting Very Messy

Whoop, there it is. And by "it" we mean another lawsuit.

Gadgets James Pero Apr 4

The Oura Ring 4 Will Show You How Much Your Daily Activities Stress You Out

It's available to pre-order today for $349 and will start shipping October 15.

Gadgets Dua Rashid Oct 3

Are Wearables Accurate at Detecting Calorie Burn?

It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said, there are still aspects of existence that Silicon Valley has yet to quantify (though not, I’m sure, for lack of trying). Calorie-burn might be one of these. While countless apps/devices profess to track it with…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Jan 11

Amazon’s New Fitness Tracker Sounds Like a Body-Shaming, Tone-Policing Disaster

There are bad ideas, and then there is Amazon’s attempt to get into the health tracker market with a new health subscription service and accompanying tracker, Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band. The pitch here is that Halo Band is a more holistic health tracker. In its press release announcing the device and service, Amazon…

Commerce Victoria Song Aug 27

Stop Posting Your Running Routes Online

It can be hard to resist the impulse of sharing your fitness progress on social media. Who can say no to the dopamine rush of random people and friends cheering you on? You. That’s who. Don’t be the dingbat who advertises where you’ll likely be on a regular, reoccurring basis! This friendly reminder was sparked…

Privacy & Security Victoria Song Aug 6

Guys, Fitbit Started Profiting Off Health Data Long Before Google Showed Up

Since news broke that Google bought Fitbit for $2.1 billion, one of the big questions was how that massive treasure trove of Fitbit data would be handled. Everyone saw what happened with Nest. As a company, Nest and its data operated separately for a long while, but earlier this year, Nest users were told to…

Tech News Victoria Song Nov 19

Netflix Is Testing ‘Physical Activity’ Tracking for Some Reason

Netflix collects a lot of data about you. But now, some Android users are finding that it’s also tracking ‘physical activity’ data via their phones. Last Friday, a security researcher on Twitter noticed that the Netflix Android app had added a menu asking for permission for physical activity access. That was corroborated by the Next…

Tech News Victoria Song Jul 31

Puma Is Re-Releasing Its 32-Year-Old Smart Shoe That Was Lightyears Ahead of Its Time

The concept of today’s smart, connected wearables just didn’t exist back in the 1980s when text-only operating systems like MS-DOS were still popular. But that didn’t stop Puma from releasing what was possibly the world’s first modern fitness tracker by strapping a chunky computer to the back of a sneaker. Thirty-two years later, Puma is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 11

How to Avoid Being Tracked on Your Laptop, Phone, or Fitness Tracker

Today we’re all being tracked by more gadgets than ever before, and in ways that might not be immediately obvious; but it is possible to put restrictions on the data that your laptop, your smartphone, and even your fitness tracker can collect about you—in particular, where you are and what you’re doing with your device.…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 30

Nokia’s About to Go Crazy With Digital Health Hardware

Brace yourself for a slew of Finnish health hardware: Nokia has just announced that it plans to buy the digital wellbeing and wearables company Withings for $190 million. Nokia, which is buying the company in cash, will roll Withings’ 200 employees into its Nokia Technologies business. It’s hoped that the takeover will allow Nokia to…

Health Jamie Condliffe Apr 26

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

Pebble Has Its Own Health App Now

Pebble has been the “little wearable that could” ever since it debuted its first smartwatch on Kickstarter in 2012. Since then, the company’s added impressive hardware and software piecemeal over the last three years, and its latest addition is Pebble Health. Building off of Pebble’s 24/7 step and sleep tracking introduced last year via Jawbone…

Tech News Darren Orf Dec 15

Timex’s Next Smartwatch Focuses on Just Fitness Tracking

About a year ago Timex revealed its One GPS+ smartwatch that squeezed GPS, messaging, 4GB of storage, and its own independent 3G connection into a fairly chunky timepiece. But with its Metropolitan+, Timex’s next smartwatch instead focuses on fitness tracking and style. Pricing and availability hasn’t been revealed just yet, just a 2015 timeline, but…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 17

New Google X Wearable Could Change How We Understand Human Health

Autonomous cars and phantom internet planes are exciting and all, but Google X also has a division that’s focusing on something more interesting: human life. Now, it says it’s working on a wearable that could be used to help it. Bloomberg describes the as-of-yet unnamed wristband, which will track biometrics like heartbeat and activity like…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jun 24

Two Sex Tracking Wearables That Might Actually Make It to Market

Given the explosion of sex advice and tracking apps for smartphones and the popularity of wearable fitness trackers, it was only a matter of time before they were combined into devices for more intimate activities. Perhaps it’s an idea whose time has come: two companies have announced plans to release “sex trackers”. Other companies have…

Tech News Diane Kelly Jun 12

Screw Wearables—Now Wi-Fi Will Monitor Your Body

The business of tracking your health with smartwatches or fitness trackers is oppressively hardware-heavy—all those wires, charging docks, and batteries. But that’s poised to change. Soon, it might be the space around you that do the monitoring. For the past few years, we’ve been sold a vision of the future based on wearable computing. Your…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 27

Under Armour Just Bought 100 Million Users Worth of Fitness Data

If you track your fitness on your smartphone—and are serious about results—chances are pretty decent you’ve tried MyFitnessPal, MapMyFitness or Endomondo. Guess what? All three of them belong to sportswear company Under Armour as of right now. Or rather, a company that used to be about sportswear… and is now trying to build “the world’s…

Tech News Sean Hollister Feb 4

Fitbit Surge Review: If Only This Was Actually a Smartwatch

I have a dream, a dream about the perfect piece of wearable tech. It would be a band with all the simple notification powers of the best smartwatches and all the health tracking powers of a full-on fitness tracker. The Fitbit Surge is so close that it hurts. What Is It? The most premium tracker…

Reviews Eric Limer Feb 4

Google Fit Hits the Play Store

Google Fit just hit the Play Store, and, well, it looks pretty much exactly like Google said it would. It also looks a heck of a lot like Apple’s HealthKit and corresponding Health app—not in terms of design but in terms of features. That said, it does look pretty useful! Like Health does in iOS,…

Health Adam Clark Estes Oct 28

How Our Circadian Rhythms Have Learned to Ignore Time Zones

Right around this time every year, the world starts to make sense. It gets darker earlier and I get tired earlier, which means I get a better night of sleep. It turns out that I’m not just imagining things. When we go to bed is still determined by that impending darkness, even if our time…

Tech News Alissa Walker Oct 7

Fitness tracking

Wearables Are Getting Very Messy

The Oura Ring 4 Will Show You How Much Your Daily Activities Stress You Out

Are Wearables Accurate at Detecting Calorie Burn?

Amazon’s New Fitness Tracker Sounds Like a Body-Shaming, Tone-Policing Disaster

Stop Posting Your Running Routes Online

Guys, Fitbit Started Profiting Off Health Data Long Before Google Showed Up

Netflix Is Testing ‘Physical Activity’ Tracking for Some Reason

Puma Is Re-Releasing Its 32-Year-Old Smart Shoe That Was Lightyears Ahead of Its Time

How to Avoid Being Tracked on Your Laptop, Phone, or Fitness Tracker

Nokia’s About to Go Crazy With Digital Health Hardware

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

Pebble Has Its Own Health App Now

Timex’s Next Smartwatch Focuses on Just Fitness Tracking

New Google X Wearable Could Change How We Understand Human Health

Two Sex Tracking Wearables That Might Actually Make It to Market

Screw Wearables—Now Wi-Fi Will Monitor Your Body

Under Armour Just Bought 100 Million Users Worth of Fitness Data

Fitbit Surge Review: If Only This Was Actually a Smartwatch

Google Fit Hits the Play Store

How Our Circadian Rhythms Have Learned to Ignore Time Zones

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