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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.

Hands-on with the new Garmin Vivoactive GPS smartwatch, and the Garmin Vivofit2

Think of it as part traditional smartwatch, part activity tracker, and part fitness GPS watch – all rolled into one. … This includes steps/distance/calories and sleep, all against a daily step goal and the usual Garmin inactivity bar and vibration reminders.

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.

Hands-on with the Garmin Epix GPS mapping & multisport watch

The same goes for activity settings, sensors and profiles – all of that is retained from the FR920XT.

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.

Garmin Venu GPS Smartwatch In-Depth Review

As you can see, the vast majority of new features on the watch are far less focused on the swim/bike/run athlete that’s more common in Garmin’s Forerunner and Fenix lineup, and instead focused on a bit more of the lifestyle athlete that may be more varied in their day to day activity – which to be fair, was always the strength/target of the Vivoactive lineup, as this is within that family. … There’s the new hydration tracker widget.

Week in Review–September 23rd, 2013

7) Strava adds bulk activity export: This happened a few weeks ago, but a reader just pointed it out.

Hands-on with new Withings Body Cardio WiFi Scale

Steps will be shown for Withings step counter devices (like the Withings Activité activity tracker). … Though Withings is cool in that if you forget your Activité tracker you can ask it to populate the step data using your phone's internal step tracking data.

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–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.

Garmin’s Vivoactive 4 Series: Everything you need to know

As you can see, the vast majority of new features on the watch are far less focused on the swim/bike/run athlete that’s more common in Garmin’s Forerunner and Fenix lineup, and instead focused on a bit more of the lifestyle athlete that may be more varied in their day to day activity – which to be fair, was always the strength/target of the Vivoactive lineup, as this is within that family. … You’ll find yourself a new hydration tracker widget.

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.

Week in Review–August 5th, 2017

Wednesday: Investor Call Tech Tidbits: Garmin Q2 2017 [Fenix, future products, and activity tracker tidbits]…

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

In fact, it really doesn’t do anything at this point except what you see above – which is the same stuff any activity tracker 1/4th the price can do.

Week in Review: January 10th, 2023

Wednesday: Garmin Bounce LTE Kids Activity Tracker In-Depth Review…

Week in Review–April 21st, 2019

Fitbit Ace Kids activity tracker is 11% off, this is the first gen ones though.

Week in Review–April 7th, 2019

Fitbit Ace Kids activity tracker is 11% off, this is the first gen ones though.

The 2015 Paris Half-Marathon Race Report

For one, it increased my activity tracker step count for the week – always a worthy goal.

Week in Review–March 17th, 2019

Tuesday: Fitbit Inspire HR Activity Tracker In-Depth Review…

5 (Very) Random Things I Did This Weekend

Oh…and yes…I couldn’t resist putting a little pet-specific activity tracker on her.

Fitbit’s Bad Day: How it ended up with multiple optical HR lawsuits, and a 20% stock drop

“Far from “counting every beat,” the PurePulse Trackers do not and cannot consistently and accurately record wearers’ heart rates during…… Plaintiff Urban then cross referenced his Surge against his chest strap based triathlon monitor and found that the PurePulse Tracker consistently under recorded his heart rate at high intensities, often by as much as 15-25 bpm.

Hands-on with new Timex One GPS+, a 3G connected watch requiring no phone

Later today I’ll circle back with more detail on the other three fitness devices (updated: available here), which include an activity tracker, a basic GPS running watch, and a smartphone connected running watch complete with push notifications.