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Amazon Prime Day Deals Today in Sports Tech

Misfit Ray Activity Tracker: Normally $99, now $49. … Polar A360 Activity Tracker: Down to 89EUR, normally 110EUR (Amazon France and Amazon Germany)

18 Sports Tech Things at CES That I Didn’t Write About

There’s a ton of companies at CES focusing on clothing that now has sensors embedded in it, primarily health/fitness related sensors like heart rate and activity tracking. … The device by LG is actually a kid's tracker, aimed at providing the real-time location of your child via a cellular SIM card.

Week in Review–February 23rd, 2014

1) FitBit recalls FitBit Force wristband activity trackers: After all the skin related issues with the unit that have swept across the web, it’s a wonder it’s taken this long. … 9) Activity Tracker Gamification of Sex via Spreadsheets: Funny little video, for those that might be tied to their data-driven metrics (cough, the triathlete crowd).

Heads up: Stack of February Sports Tech Sales

The Vivofit 3 being the baseline Garmin activity tracker, whereas the Vivosmart HR+ is their GPS-enabled activity tracker band with full smartphone notifications, music control, etc….

Welcome to CES 2016!

Activity Trackers: Expect plenty more as usual, ranging from definitely worthy to absolute no-name garbage. … Many forget that when it comes to activity trackers – the platform is equally if not more important than the device itself.

Suunto Announces Final Steps for Movescount Transition, Not All Bad News

2) On October 13th, Suunto 9 & Spartan users won’t be able to create new activity uploads or sync settings…… 3) On October 27th, Ambit 1/2/3/Traverse users won’t be able to create new activity uploads to Movescount

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

These are divided up into both running and activity tracker products. … Epson Pulsense PS-100: Daily activity tracker with 24x7 optical HR monitoring

5 Sports Tech Tidbits: Hammerhead Karoo, Garmin Vivofit 4, Shimano Power, New Bike Build, CES 2018

The general trend for activity trackers is shifting towards that $110-$150 sweet spot (where Vivosmart 3 lives), and so at the lower end price-wise Garmin simply needs ‘keep up with the Joneses’, which is basically just keeping up with Fitbit. … A totally random example, but check out the above screen, it allows me to edit the Strava activity title before uploading, as well as things like privacy settings.

Week in Review–February 7th, 2016

5) Over 13 million wearable activity trackers sold in 2015 (doubling over 2014): Said differently, no, the Apple Watch didn’t kill the market. … 7) Fitness trackers leaking private data? Some are, and some were.

MWC 2014 Roundup Part 3: A look at Kyocera fitness concepts, updates from TwoNav bike computers, standalone cellular GPS trackers, Omate smart watch

What you see is a cell phone that can bend and become an activity tracker – and one that tracks heart rate as well, direct from the wrist. … There’s been a few standalone cellular GPS trackers over the years.

Week in Review–January 13th, 2014

Monday: Hands on with the new Garmin Vivofit & Vivoki Activity Monitors (Note: Added new Vivoki hands-on shots)… Atlas Fitness Tracker: The Atlas fitness tracker identifies your exercises, counts your reps, calculates the calories you burn and evaluates your form.

MWC 2017 New Watches Hands-on: Huawei Watch 2 & LG Watch Sport

And even more specifically, Polar’s app was really just about recording the activity or basic workouts. … - 30-day battery life in time/step tracker mode only (Casio has something similar)

Seeing a crowd-funded project grow up: Sensoria

But their new offering is less fruit-like and more activity tracker like. … The sock was designed to measure metrics such as stride length, cadence, foot positioning, pronation and even force exerted while in an activity.

First look at new Mio Link ANT+/Bluetooth Smart optical heart rate wrist band

However, that device wasn’t aimed at the sports crowd, but rather more at the activity monitor/tracker crowd.

The Weekend: Motorola MOTOACTV, Zeo Mobile, Jawbone Up, long battery tests

You know what I like about the Zeo mobile? It’s the only product I get to test and not have to exert physical activity. … It’s akin to the Fitbit tracker that tracks your movement, steps and sleep.

Week in Review–September 23rd, 2013

Monday: First look at Garmin’s new FR620 & FR220 GPS running watchesTuesday: Week in Review–September 17th, 2013Tuesday: Initial hands-on with Polar Loop activity trackerWednesday: Running hill repeats with the Velib bike share Now kicking off Interbike 2013! Power2Max drops power meter prices nearly 20%, adds Praxis Works for chain rings Wahoo Fitness debuts Wahoo RPM, shows off Android KICKR control Stages Cycling adds new power meter metrics, shows off high-speed data streaming BKOOL demonstrates KICKR compatibility, new user-video route upload function, Android app Thursday: Redshift Sports demonstrates Switch Aero System quick-release and quick-change aerobar/seatpost system 4iiii’s announces Cliiiimb Strava segment competition app, new low-priced hardware bundles A night at the Las Vegas Super Sprint Triathlon Grand Prix Friday: Kinomap demonstrates route builder software, adds CycleOps PowerBeam support, Sony Action Cam integration Hands-on with SRM’s upcoming iPad app for their new PC8 head unit K-Edge adds new mount options for GoPro, Sony Action Cam, and Garmin Edge units Barfly shows off slew of new bike computer, camera, and gear mounts Saturday: Hands on with the Shimano’s Di2 ANT+ SCIO shifting bike computer A look at the new (and crazy silent) Elite Turbo Muin trainer with power output Interbike News That Didn’t Fit: Tacx iPad App, iBike, BikeSpike, Pioneer, Garmin FR220/FR620 notes, and more! Sunday: A look at the competitive booth games of Interbike Phew, done! Stuff that I found interesting around the interwebs: Here’s a not-so-small smattering of all the random things that I stumbled on while doing my civic duty to find the end of the Internet: 1) Mike Bowen, Army Veteran Runs 58,282 Miles: One mile for every American who didn’t return from the Vietnam War. … 7) Strava adds bulk activity export: This happened a few weeks ago, but a reader just pointed it out

Week in Review–September 6th, 2015

But I find $105 a very good price-point for this combo GPS & activity tracker. … SportTracks adds Epson partnership: You can now sync directly from Epson’s activity log platform to Sport Tracks.

Tech Tidbits: Withings becomes Withings again, Favero’s Assioma 1% Update, AIRhub Core, and FirstBeat HRV Summit

Countless brands have classical timepieces with activity tracker smarts in them. … They became more successful because they completely re-thought what a classical timepiece should be and created the high-end Withings Activité watch, which didn’t look digital yet had all the activity tracking built-in.

Week in Review–April 20th, 2014

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

This beautiful piece of hardware is part activity tracker, part fitness tracker, and part smart watch.

Giveaway Extravaganza: Withings WS50 WiFi Scale + Withings Activité

Add in the swanky Withings Activité to keep your activity levels tracked without being dorky, and you’ll basically be like Richard Simmons in no time.

Week in Review–March 19th, 2016

Except that REI excludes GPS watches, activity trackers, and the like. … Both are kinda more of same-same in the basic activity tracker realm.

Polar Launches Premium Subscription Service: Says Hold My Beer

And like Polar, all of this accounts for your sleep/HRV/activity/stress/etc data. … Still, these days I see Oura as the sleep/health tracker for people that don’t have a different smartwatch device.

The May 20th Sales Begin: Garmin, Wahoo, Suunto, CycleOps, Saris, Pebble, TomTom, Pioneer

The Pebble Time round (seen above) has quickly become The Girl’s favorite activity tracker.

Week in Review–February 28th, 2016

5) Measuring activity makes it less enjoyable: Well, for some anyway. … Sleep Shepherd Blue: A new brain-wave based sleep tracker (kinda like the now defunct Zeo).