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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Fitbit is reportedly buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million
It looks consolidation is acoming to the wearables space with Fitbit set to acquire smartwatch maker and $20 million Kickstarter-darling Pebble, according to..
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Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition
The use of facial recognition software for commercial purposes is becoming more common, but, as Amazon scans faces in its physical shop and Facebook searches photos of users to add tags to, those concerned about their privacy are fighting back. Berlin-based artist and technologist Adam Harvey aims to overwhelm and confuse these systems by presenting them with thousands of false hits so they can’t tell which faces are real.
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Smartwatches know you’re getting a cold days before you feel ill
Smartwatches know you’re getting a cold days before you feel ill.
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Smart condoms: like Fitbit for sex – and you can even share your stats
Ever wondered how many calories you’re burning in the bedroom? The i.Con condom, which keeps track of your sex stats, could be the answer. You mean they are organic latex and scented with bergamot? Worse. In fact, the first smart condom isn’t even a condom. It’s a ring that fits around the base of a penis, holding the condom in place. Why not use a clothes peg, or a rubber band? Intensely painful, I’d imagine. Besides, this is no ordinary penis ring.
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This Technology Will Self Destruct Your Phone As Soon As its Snatched
Phone grabbing has turned into a much more concerning issue because of the deluge of costly cell phones, particularly in very populated urban areas like Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar. Be that as it may, unless there is some ad lib on the snatchers' end, we could soon be free from this problem, on account of "Self-destructing phones".
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Fitness tracker firm Jawbone faces liquidation - BBC News
The company has also emailed some customers to say it hasn't "forgotten" them.
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Charge on the go with these solar powered bags
Harnessing the power of the sun can solve this. After years of living the “worldwide hustle/entrepreneur/jet set gypsy life,” as he calls it, Adrian Solgaard is set on reinventing the mobile office and is seeking funding via Kickstarter.
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Smart glasses let you turn off the lights in the blink of an eye
Blink and the lights go out. A sensor on a pair of glasses that can pick up the motion of your skin when you blink could be used to switch the lights on and off, or to help those with limited or no mobility write messages on a computer. “The good thing about the technology is the high sensitivity, which may become particularly useful in places where the motion is very limited,” says Ambarish Ghosh at the Indian Institute of Science, who wasn’t involved in the research.
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Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties
Apple Inc. is planning to release a version of its smartwatch later this year that can connect directly to cellular networks, a move designed to reduce the device’s reliance on the iPhone, people familiar with the matter said.
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10 Ways GPS Can Save Your Company Money | Turtler
How GPS tracking and location sharing of employees, assets and vehicles saves companies money and improves services.
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Intel is making smart glasses that actually look good
Smart glasses that won’t make you look like a Google Glasshole.
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