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Intel is laying off a major portion of its wearables group
According to sources close to the company, Intel is about to step back from wearables in a big way. In 2014, the company purchased Basis, a little-known producer of some truly excellent fitness watches. The acquisition was clearly a piece of a much larger puzzle for Intel, as it folded the brand into NDG — the New Devices Group — a new wing designed to make a big play for the booming wearables market, while hitting back against rival chipmaker, Qualcomm.
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The Healthy Gift Guide: Holiday Presents for Fitness Enthusiasts
This post provides guides on 8 fitness-inspired holiday gifts for a healthy year 2017.
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Meet Alto Tech's 'Cool Glass,' a vastly cheaper alternative to Google Glass
Not surprisingly, no one at the Alto Tech booth at CES wanted to call its Cool Glass a knockoff of Google Glass. Sure, it looks almost identical. The name’s nearly the same. But Alto Tech representatives said that it developed a custom fork of Android to power it, and that the applications it developed were proprietary. (There’s an SDK for developers to tap into, too.) But I’ve used Glass, and unless my memory deceives me, Cool Glass offers nearly the same experience at a fraction of...
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The BioRing Wearable Brings A Personal Trainer To Your Fingers
BioRing is the new health and fitness wearable worn on a user’s finger that tracks and monitors calories, including protein and carb metrics, exercise, sleep, stress, hydration and heart health.
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How to cheat your Fitbit - Psst: You're going to need a puppy or a power tool.
Last year, when MNN blogger Michael d'Estries found himself on the losing end of a Fitbit challenge he was competing in with friends, he walked around his neighborhood until the late hours of the night in 10-degree windchill to gain extra steps. Little did he know that all he needed was an electric saw and he could have won that challenge without taking a single step in the cold. Until recently, I had no idea fitness tracker cheating was even possible. But in a world where fitness tracking and health data sharing has become the norm, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. We've become so competitive about our exercise that even when...
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Olympic athletes will sport Visa's new payment ring in Rio
For those making their way to this year's Olympic games in Rio this August, Visa will be the only card accepted at official venues -- a pretty sweet deal for the payment provider. But, rather than be satisfied with exclusive access to the wallets of a half million tourists, the company is using the event to introduce a new ring that will let people pay with a wave of their hand: No phone, wallet or even battery needed.
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Forget Edibles: Getting High on Wearables
There are a lot of tools out there that claim to train—even change—your brain. So do they work? We put them to the test and things get... interesting.
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Fitbit Data Just Undermined a Woman's Rape Claim
It turns out that a fitness tracker can do more to betray you than showing your friends and families you’re a couch potato.
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Fitbit’s new wearable is a fitness watch called Blaze
How do you compete in a growing smartwatch market without making a smartwatch? You make a dedicated fitness watch, one with smart notifications, but without all of the third-party app complications that come with a full-featured smartwatch. At least, that’s what Fitbit’s strategy seems to be; last year, it added the giant Surge watch to its stable of popular, lightweight activity trackers.
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Can the Apple Watch Replace Your Personal Trainer?
I've read online that smart watches are making personal trainers obsolete. But how do these fitness trackers really help you reach your goals?
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Gadi Amit of Fitbit, Lytro and Sproutling creates new underskin wearable
In 2013, two San Francisco-based entrepreneurs, Chris Bruce and Mathew Spolin, contacted a local product designer called Gadi Amit with the idea of making a wearable device. "They had some core sensors and a general idea for the branding," Amit says. "But, as is usually the case with wearables, most of the sensors brought to us were raw inventions from a medical lab. The end users are not medical professionals." In fact, in the case of Bruce's and Spolin's device, the Sproutling...
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Bill Shannon Wearable Video Mask
It's the smaller wearable iteration of a series of video installation works I have been developing alongside my performance practice over the course of the past few years that references the rendering approach of Cubists figurative painters while using multi-angle video captures of the body, video projectors and holo-screens and custom fabricated “sculptural” steel rigging as media.
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Ideaz : Fitness Tracker range from Fitbit comes to India on Amazon
JohnDas Fundas and Ideas. Tips and Tricks for several interesting stuff on the internet.
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Fitbit? More Like Quitbit
Why so many people give up on fitness trackers.
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Pebble Time vs. Apple Watch
With the retail version of Pebble Time launching, maybe you're torn between it and the Apple Watch? Let's compare the features and specs of the two smartwatches.
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Six Upcoming and Cool Tech Wearables
Here’s a sneak peek from CE Week at six upcoming tech wearables in 2016.
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'Human Sat Nav' guides users with electrodes
Germans use electric to stimulate muscles and send walkers in the right direction.
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Apple Watch: 8 things Apple needs to get right or it will fail
Clearly the Apple Watch is going to be a thing – but will it be as successful as prior launches of the iPod, iPad and iPhone?
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Jawbone's New Wristband Is Incredibly Sleek And Can Tell You Almost Everything About Your Health
Jawbone is releasing a new fitness band that can track everything from your resting heart rate to your precise sleep cycles and the temperature of your skin.
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Microsoft Band: Tech critics say the cross-platform wearable seems like a winner
Microsoft has decided not to be a slacker when it comes to the newly blossoming wearable category and has churned out its new fitness-focussed smartwatch – Microsoft Band – without wasting much time.
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