A new study conducted by Kantar Media has found that 32 percent of mobile device owners now use apps directly related to health and fitness as the growing trend of understanding our bodies takes an all time high. The survey – consisting of 20,000 consumers – asked respondents in what way they used their mobile devices, with a resounding 25 percent of smartphone users and 22 percent of tablet owners used applications which allow them to … Read entire article »

Over the past year the tech world has gone crazy over the hype of wearable smart glasses, including the likes of Google Glass and the Vuzix M100. The latest piece of smartwear technology is again a product which can display information before your eyes, however this comes with a unique twist. Instabeat is a head-up display unit which attaches to your swimming goggles and monitors a variety of attributes during your workout. The piece of eyewear … Read entire article »

Over the past couple of weeks there has been no getting away from the hype cased by Microsoft and Sony following the recent launches of the next generation consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Whether you’re a gamer or not, it is common knowledge the impact these consoles have on their appropriate markets and the influence they can have on so many people lives. So, where does this tie in with health and fitness? Well since … Read entire article »

We have seen a wide variety of fitness gadgets on the market this year, which all claim to have a unique method to helping you maintain that healthy lifestyle. The usual attributes consist of: –         Calorie counting –         Counting movement –         Monitoring body mass –         Cost However it is widely recognised, that being constantly told to keep going and always trying to ‘one up’ your previous performance, can in fact have a negative effect on your health. Sometimes you need … Read entire article »

The Omegawave Personal – the fatigue monitoring chest-strap and app designed to push users to their very limits and understand their optimum times to train. Once up and about in the morning apply the chest-strap and within 2 minutes Omegwave will get underway, syncing with your smartphone and supplying a whole host of data, which resembles your bodies cardiac output. This is great for understanding patterns of fatigue levels and helping to create a productive … Read entire article »

Moves, the popular smartphone app, which monitors your fitness without the need of expensive gadgets and long configurations, this week launched its latest edition 2.0 compatible with iPhone 5s. The activity tracker capitalises on Apple’s motion detector (M7 chip), to enable constant tracking of the users steps taken, distance ran and distance cycled. For those who are using handsets with the absence of the M7 chip, the activity users undertake is monitored via a software in … Read entire article »

Another product to break into the market encouraging consumers to wear their technology is the Misfit Shine fitness tracker. The first product from a company that was co-founded by former Apple CEO, John Sculley took their name Misfit Wearable’s from by coincidence the company was first launch on the day of Steve Job’s death. Misfit is considered a tribute due to one of Apples signature adverts, “Here’s to the Crazy Ones”. The Misfit Shine is arguably a … Read entire article »

Basis the popular fitness tracker has now launched an all-new and improved software set to make monitoring your health and fitness even easier. The new development called the Body IQ enhances the tracking capabilities of its Basis B1 wrist monitor, which now gives it the ability to understand the users different types of activity. The Basis B1 can now differentiate between a stroll and a jog and immediately detects when the user is riding a … Read entire article »