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Moves iPhone app might be more effective than an activity tracking gadget
Activity tracking gadgets have been all the rage for the past year or so, with offerings from Nike+, BodyMedia, Jawbone, Fitbit, the list really could go on and on. However, there are plenty of apps that claim they’re just as effective when it comes to monitoring your activity levels and Moves may be our new favourite for keeping an eye on everything we get up to on a daily basis. It’s solely for iPhone users right … Read entire article »
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Amiigo bracelet looks to become the next big thing in fitness tracking
The world of fitness tracking has come on in leaps and bounds recently, especially since CES last week, which saw big player Fitbit launch a bracelet device called Flex much like Jawbone’s Up and Nike’s Fuelband. Well now there’s a new gadget on the scene – well, nearly – that could well shake up the current favourites. Today TechCrunch wrote a feature about Amiigo, a fitness tracking bracelet and innovative shoe clip rolled into one device. … Read entire article »
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CES 2013: Fitbit launches Flex wristband tracker, takes on Nike+ FuelBand and Jawbone Up
One of our favourite fitness tracking companies, Fitbit, has launched a wristband tracking gadget at CES 2013 this week called Flex, which is set to add to its already impressive portfolio of fitness devices and compete with the likes of Nike’s Fuelband and Jawbone’s Up bracelet. The Flex is similar to its competitors in that it collects data about how many steps you’ve taken, your quality of sleep, the calories you’ve burned and a range of … Read entire article »
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CES 2013: Withings announces smart activity tracker
We knew that the health and fitness tech announcements from CES 2013 this year would be interesting and even though the show hasn’t officially kicked off for the public yet, health and fitness tech specialist Withings has revealed it’ll be launching a Smart Activity Tracker to add to its ecosystem of life tracking gadgets, apps and services. The compact little gadget looks as if it’s set to directly compete with the likes of the Fitbit One, … Read entire article »
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Fitbug set to launch Wow scale to accompany Air gadget
We first heard about Fitbug earlier in the year, when the tracking company started (fairly quietly compared to its competitors) introducing its tracking device, the Fitbug Air, into the health and fitness tech market. Well now Fitbug is taking steps to conquer an even bigger bit of the quantified self pie, as this week it was announced that it’ll be launching a Bluetooth Smart Ready Scale, called the Wow. Just like Fitbit and Withings, the company … Read entire article »
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Scosche launches RHYTHM pulse monitor fitness gadget
Scosche is a tech brand that’s really trying to work its way firmly into the health and tech arena with its latest offering, the RHYTHM pulse monitor armband. The new RHYTHM device is an all-singing, all-dancing fitness tracking and workout companion, which comes with a highly accurate pulse monitor that’s bluetooth enabled, so data can be sent to other devices wirelessly. It hooks up with an iPhone app and web dashboard, which is fully customisable, meaning … Read entire article »
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TRAQS.me: Track, monitor and improve all your health and fitness data
As the self tracking/quantified self movement has really kicked off over the past few months we’ve seen more and more people monitoring everything from the miles they run to the hours of sleep they get each night. However, a problem we’ve come across a lot recently is that obviously the more you track things, the more data you’ll have and the more confused you might be getting by it all as you try and integrate it … Read entire article »
Filed under: Apps, Fitness Gadgets, Health Gadgets
Why constant tracking and life hacking might not lead to a better you
Although we first launched Connected Health late last year and saw plenty of exhibitions about the body at CES, only recently have we seen mainstream blogs and publications here in the UK really start waking up to the huge potential that tracking your daily activities, food intake and workouts with the help of gadgets, apps and accessories can really have on your long term health and fitness. As our understanding of health, fitness and wellbeing progresses, … Read entire article »
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Fitness tracking service Endomondo has 10 million users and counting
Fitness tracking isn’t just about downloading an app to your phone and taking it with you on a run anymore, many of the popular options, like Fitocracy, Nike+, HealthyShare and RunKeeper are now integrating themselves firmly into our Facebook lives and are actively encouraging wider networks of friends to challenge each other and get working out too. Endomondo is just one of these services, which has a popular app (available for iOS, Windows, Android AND Blackberry) and … Read entire article »
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Squid: Will fitness tracking soon move to our clothes?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, SO MANY brands have launched fitness and health tracking devices recently that it’s hard to keep up. Some gadgets are worn on our wrists, like the Nike Fuelband, some clip to our clothes, like the Fitbit, and others sit happily inside our ears, like Valencell’s devices, but new technology from students at Northeastern University aims to bring effective body monitoring and fitness tracking to our clothes, … Read entire article »
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