Fitbit’s R&D spending reaches new high as company prepares new products
Fitbit’s investment in R&D (research and development) has started to reap benefits. The company’s stock price jumped 7% minutes after releasing second
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Wearables
Basis recalls every Peak ever made due to overheating issues
In a surprise announcement, the Intel subsidiary Basis announced that it is shutting down service immediately and is asking customers
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iBeat raises $1.5 million to build a heart monitor
San Francisco based startup called iBeat announced that it has successfully raised $1.5 million in seed funding to commercialise its
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Fitbit confirms we’ll see at least two new products by the end of this year
Fitbit has a history of beating earnings and revenue expectations. Yesterday was no exception. The market leader in wearable fitness-tracking
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Wearables galore at this year’s Rio 2016 Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, are due to take place in Rio
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Lumo Run jogging sensor starts shipping today
Today Lumo Bodytech announced the general availability of Lumo Run, a small and discreet sensor that measures and coaches you
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Philips enters the wearables space with a suite of medical grade devices
Philips has, today, joined the increasingly crowded market for wearables with its own health platform and ecosystem. But forget about pretty
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Britain barely moving as walking levels fall by a third
The average Britton walks 181 miles a year or only a half a mile per day according to new figures
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Fitbit is the wearable of choice for medical studies
The most popular fitness tracker brands are slowly changing the way medical research is done by helping research to measure
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Olympians train with Halo Sport to gain competitive edge
With the Rio Olympics only days away, professional athletes are putting the finishing touches on their preparations. Some amongst them
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Bellabeat Leaf Urban helps women tackle stress
While there are a large number of health and fitness gadgets on the market, only a handful are designed specifically for
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18% of us own a fitness tracker, but nearly a half don’t use them
More and more market research companies are jumping on the fitness tracker craze. The latest study comes from CivicScience, a
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Now you can train like the pros with Whoop
Whoop is the first scientifically-grounded system designed for continuous wear that provides athletes with data to reduce injuries and predict peak
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Wearables can keep you fit, but can you be sure your data is private?
While technological innovation has advanced at an extraordinary pace in recent years, privacy and security protections of health information have
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Interview: We are at the bleeding edge of automatic 3D motion tracking says Atlas CEO
The Atlas Wristband is not interested in the number of steps or distance that you covered today, or how much
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