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Amiigo Fitness Tracker Bracelet Gets VC Investment, Kicks Off Indiegogo Campaign

 Amiigo, a fitness tracker bracelet, shoe clip plus app that can tell what type of exercise you’re doing thanks to its combination of hardware sensors and gesture-based software algorithms, has kicked...

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Meet Flyfit, The Fitness Tracker You Strap To Your Ankle

 When you think about it, it’s odd that wearable tech makers are so obsessed with wristbands. Most wearable tech products currently focus on fitness, and the most popular cardio exercises–biking,...

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Ex-Apple Engineer Launches Moov, The Next Generation Of Wearable Fitness...

 Welcome to the next generation of wearable fitness tracking! The first round of fitness trackers focused on introducing the idea of data to your daily activity and workout, but a new company called...

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Withings Updates Its Pulse Activity Tracker With Blood Oxygen Monitoring

 Withings pretty much nailed the activity tracker with the Pulse activity tracker, which features a built-in heart rate sensor that uses pulse oximetry (just like the Galaxy S5). Now, it has updated...

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Every Fitness App And Wearable Should Have A Mood Tracker

 Along with its many other benefits, regular workouts contribute to better mood and energy levels. As a result, I am constantly surprised to see how many fitness tracking apps and wearable devices lack...

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LeapFrog Hops Into The Kids’ Wearables Space With A Gamified Fitness Tracker

 LeapFrog, a purveyor of tablets and other education tech designed specifically for kids, has leapt into the wearables space — with a gamified fitness-focused wearable, also for kids, which lets...

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Fjuul Activity Tracker App Measures Exercise Intensity, Not Just Steps

 Finnish startup Fjuul is tackling activity tracking with an iOS app aiming for mainstream users that can track the intensity of activity. It’s been backed by €400,000 ($550,000) in funding thus far...

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Chinese Supercloner Xiaomi Expected To Release A Fitness Tracker

 Watch out, Fitbit. Xiaomi is firing up its photocopiers again. Xiaomi makes the best cheap gadgets available. The company started out cloning existing gadgets, but has since moved on to designing and...

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Jawbone Lays Off 60, 15% Of Staff Globally, Closes NY Office

 Some difficult news this week for Jawbone, maker of fitness trackers, speakers and Bluetooth headsets. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company yesterday laid off around 60 employees, or...

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Misfit Ray Is A New, Slimmer Fitness Tracker That Looks More Like A Bracelet...

 With its first major product release since its acquisition by watchmaker Fossil Group in November, Misfit today debuted its latest entry in its line of fashion-forward fitness trackers with the launch...

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Health And Fitness Data Is Useless

 Data is hot right now. We generate tons of it, but most of it sits there, latent, unused and useless. This is particularly pronounced when it comes to health and fitness data, where we strap on our...

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Connected Sports Gear Is Harder, Faster And Stronger

 Would the world be different if Neil Armstrong had worn a Fitbit wristband when he set foot on the moon? What if Nixon had been equipped with a cardiac sensor during Watergate? Read More

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How to train your human, part II: Products that make habits last

 In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how can we ensure that these new...

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Skyhook Wireless brings location services to wearables in a petite package

 Skyhook Wireless has been working on location technology for longer than many of the biggest names in smartphones have been around. Today it launched a new SDK aimed at bringing location to wearables...

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Adidas wants to put these Zone fitness trackers on every kid in PE class

 Everybody likes a good fitness tracker, but nobody is thinking about the children. The poor dears are being left out of the wearable revolution — looks like it’s up to Adidas to put a gadget on every...

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Pebble revamps its health software and text responses

 The weather’s finally starting to look like spring here in New York City, and it’s time to really put those fitness trackers to good use. For those who rely on a Pebble watch to keep track of their...

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Fitbit finally gets design with the Alta sports tracker

 For me, fitness trackers are all about motivation. I used to go for a run every single day, and then quit, and then went to yoga every single day, and then I did nothing every single day. Now, a...

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Samsung’s Gear Fit2 brings welcome upgrades to the amped up fitness tracker

 The first Gear Fit wasn’t a bad product. It was just one that wanted to be something for everyone, disappointing most in the process. Of course, 2014 was a few lifetimes ago. Much has happened in the...

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Strava adds a real-time safety feature to its fitness tracking app

 The official promo for Strava’s new beacon feature shows a runner attempting to outpace a giant boulder — something I suspect isn’t too common an occurrence unless you’re Indiana Jones or Wile E....

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When music and technology collide

 Some might say that technology is killing the music industry. But if you look around, there’s a beautiful marriage there — the music industry is evolving every day, and artists are embracing...

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