Exercise Monitors
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Apple Makes Its Watches More Affordable and Accessible
Apple upgrades health tracking and makes its smartwatches more accessible with the affordable Watch SE and Family Setup for managing kids' and parents' Watches.
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Fitbit Versa 3: An Affordable Feature-Rich Smartwatch
The new Fitbit Versa 3 smartwatch gets some key feature upgrades and only a modest bump in price.
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5 Health & Fitness Trackers that Make Healthy Living Easy
Make healthier choices with these five highly-rated and reviewed health gadgets.
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Track Your Diet, Fitness, and Wellness Automatically with HealBe GoBe3
HealBe GoBe3 tracks calories, hydration, stress levels, heart rate, sleep and more for you automatically so you can get a more complete picture of your health.
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Review of the Polar OH1 Heart Rate Monitor
The Polar OH1's small size, comfort, ease of use, and standalone workout tracking will make it the best armband optical heart rate monitor for most people.
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7 Fantastic Father's Day Gift Ideas
Whether he's into fitness gadgets or streaming media devices or smart home tech, these are the gifts that Dad wants this Father's Day.
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Sleep Number Uses Sleep Data to Automatically Adjust Your Bed
The Sleep Number 360 bed now tracks your heart and breath rate, movement, disturbances, and environment, and automatically adjusts for a better night's sleep.
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10 Smart Gift Ideas for Mom
Why not give a gadget that makes Mom's life easier, safer and more enjoyable? We know just which high-tech gifts she'll love.
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Aetna Will Give You an Apple Watch for Meeting Health Goals
Health insurer Aetna is betting the Apple Watch will encourage members to take care of their health — so they're giving them away.
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Garmin vivosmart 4 Knows How Hard You Should Workout
Garmin’s vivosmart 4 measures your body’s overall activity and fitness level and lets you know if you should take it easy or go all out.
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9 Smart Home & Health Gadgets to Improve Everyday Life
These nine products will help you live a healthier, more stress-free life and make a huge impact on your overall wellbeing.
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Apple Watch 4 FDA Approved for Heart Monitoring & More
Apple Watch Series 4 can perform an echocardiogram, warn you of an irregular heartbeat, detect falls — save your life.
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Fitbit's Charge 3 Combines Advanced Fitness and Smartwatch Capabilities
Fitbit Charge 3 houses advanced fitness sensors in a super slim tracker and delivers a solid smartwatch experience.
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7 Smart Gift Ideas for Mom
One in five mothers are hoping for a high-tech gift come Mother's Day and we know just which high-tech gifts she'll love.
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Fitbit Versa: a Light & Sleek Smartwatch
Fitbit's new health and fitness smartwatch delivers just the features you need at a lower price.
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The Best Fitness Trackers Under $50
Our favorite fitness trackers keep tabs on all of the basics — steps, calories, distance traveled and sleep quality — with extras, like heart rate monitoring and water-resistance for swimming.
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The Best Fitness Trackers
Tracking health and fitness is no longer niche, now that devices of varying designs can monitor every move you make.
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Fitbit's Ionic Fitness Watch is Water Resistant & Smart
A lineup of new features makes the Ionic the best Fitbit yet, but is it the right fitness tracker for you?
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9 Fantastic Father's Day Gift Ideas
Whether he's into fitness gadgets or streaming media devices or smart home tech, these are the gifts that Dad wants this Father's Day.
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Huawei Watch 2 Classic: A Stylish New Smartwatch
The fashionable new Huawei Watch 2 Classic fits your lifestyle 24/7 — easily moving from the gym to the boardroom to the beach.
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Review of the Polar H10 Heart Rate Monitor
The Polar H10 has just about all of the bells and whistles you could want on a consumer heart rate monitor. Here's how it stacks up against the competition.
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Review of the Lumo Run
The Lumo Run measures your body movements during your runs to help improve your form and prevent injury. Here's how well it works.
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6 Smart Gift Ideas for Mom
Whether she wants to shape up, clean up, get organized or just sit back and be entertained, here are 6 of the hottest products for Mother's Day.
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How to Make Your Fitness Tracker More Accurate
Follow these five easy tips to ensure you're getting the most accurate tracking of your steps and distance traveled and the number of calories you've burned.
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Tech That Helps You Work Out Smarter
These five new gadgets that will bring your workout to a new level.
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Next Gen Garmin Vivosmart 3 Tracks More, Costs Less
Building on what was already a great fitness tracker, the Vivosmart 3 adds water resistance and gives wearers a closer look at their health data.
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The Best Fitness Watches Under $200
Our editors pick for the best fitness watches you can get for under $200.
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Fitbit Alta HR: The Slimmest Heart Rate Monitor Yet
The updated Fitbit Alta HR packs a continuous heart rate monitor, more tracking features and extra battery life into the already tiny Alta.
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Huawei Fit Smartwatch: High-End Fitness Tracking at a Budget Price
This new smartwatch sports a touchscreen and heart rate monitoring with a low $130 pricetag.
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Apple Watch Series 2 Gets GPS, Waterproofing
Are the updates to Apple's Watch enough to make it a must-have?
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5 Best Fitness Trackers Under $50
From the Misfit Flash to the Fitbit Zip, there are plenty of worthwhile activity monitors that can help get you into shape on the cheap.
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The Best Heart Rate Monitor
An intuitive user interface, wide compatibility with other products and advanced tracking features make the Wahoo Tickr X the top heart rate monitor.
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Techlicious Top Picks of CES 2016 Awards
Our editors pick their favorite consumer tech products from the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Fitbit Sued Over Heartbeat Tracking Inaccuracies
Fitbit faces a class suit over allegations of inaccurate heart rate counting by two of its wearable heart rate trackers, the Charge HR and Surge.
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Huawei’s Partnership With Swarovski Yields Sparkling New Smartwatches
Huawei’s Elegant and Jewel designs bring high class style to their Android Wear watch line.
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This Sports Bra Tracks Your Workouts and Helps You Train Smarter
OMsignal’s OMBra is a fashionable, fitness tracking wearable that tracks your heart rate, breathing rate and more.
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Misfit Flash Cyclist Edition Debuts with Cadence Tracking
Flash Cyclist Edition takes the Flash, which is a water-resistant fitness tracker, and adds new tech that lets cyclists track their cadence.
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BaubleBar Jewelry Upgrades Your Misfit Flash Fitness Tracker
Want to wear your Misfit Flash tracker in style? BaubleBar just launched the Helena Necklace and Bracelet to give your fitness tracker a classy look.
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Fitbit Adds Automatic Workout and Heart Rate Tracking
Wait, did you remember to start logging your exercise session before you began jogging? Worry no more with automatic logging on your Fitbit Charge HR or Surge.
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Garmin Launches Smart Scale & Waterproof Fitness Smartwatch
Garmin launches its first Smart Scale and the new waterproof Garmin Vivosmart HR, its first-ever activity tracker with built-in continuous heart rate monitoring.
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Misfit Launches Thinner Shine 2 Activity Tracker
The slimmer and lighter Misfit Shine 2 can be worn as a watch, clip-on device or necklace for monitoring fitness, sleep and much more.
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Fossil Unveils Android Wear Smartwatch and Smart Wearables
Fossil's new smartwatch and connected wearables track your activities, show phone notifications and more.
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Jawbone UP Series Gets Auto Sleep Tracking, UP2 Gets Makeover
A firmware update to the Jawbone UP fitness tracker line brings automatic sleep tracking and passive heart rate tracking.
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3 Important Things You Can Learn From a Heart Rate Monitor
There are three important health metrics you can track with your heart rate monitor to gain insight into your health and help you work out smarter.
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Speedo Shine: An Exercise Tracker Designed for Swimmers
The Speedo Shine activity tracker for swimmers counts laps in the pool using any stroke and measures calories burned via the Misfit smartphone app.
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Misfit Flash Link: A $20 Waterproof Activity Monitor & Smart Button
The Misfit Flash Link exercise tracker counts steps, calories burned and sleep quality, and also works as a multi-use iOS Bluetooth smart button.
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PEAR 2.0 App Provides More Personalized Coaching & Tracking
PEAR 2.0 app features workout programs, customized to your unique goals, movement detection for rep counting and VO2 Max fitness-level benchmarking.
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7 Gadgets to Improve Your Body and Mind
Technology can help you get a better night sleep through gentle light, guide you toward mediative bliss and keep you active even at work.
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9 Father's Day Gift Ideas for the Tech-Loving Dad
From fitness gadgets to top-tier speakers to the hottest smartwatch, these are the gifts that dad wants this Fathers Day.
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'Adidas Go' App Matches Run Intensity to Your Spotify Playlist
Adidas and Spotify have teamed up to release the adidas go app, which matches your stride rate to an appropriately tempoed song.
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Jawbone UP4 to Feature NFC Mobile Payment Functionality
UP4, the next generation of Jawbone UP fitness bands, can connect to your American Express card to enable tap-to-pay NFC mobile payments.
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Study: Wearable Fitness Trackers No More Accurate than Your Smartphone
You can more accurately track your daily steps by keeping a smartphone in your pocket than by wearing a dedicated fitness tracker, the study shows.
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Fun Tech Gifts for Valentines of All Ages
Looking for the perfect gift for your tech-obsessed Valentine? Make the day special with one of these six gift ideas.
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Misfit Flash Tracker Gets Smart Home Control Features
This spring, the Misfit Flash tracker will control your Nest thermostat, August smart locks, Logitech Harmony systems and more through the IFTTT app.
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SmartMat: The World's First Intelligent Yoga Mat and Coach
The SmartMat uses a network of pressure sensors to measure, and connects to a mobile app to correct your positioning during a variety of yoga routines.
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Techlicious 2015 Best of CES Awards
Our editors pick their favorite consumer tech products at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Parrot Unveils Over-the-head In-ear Bluetooth Sport Tracking Headphones
The Parrot Zik Sport in-ear Bluetooth headphones use an over-the-head strap for a secure fit, making them perfect for runners.
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Misfit Unveils a Solar-powered Swarovski Crystal Activity Tracker
The new violet Swarovski Shine, a fashion-conscious take on exercise monitors, gathers its energy directly from the sun.
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Health Insurer Will Pay You to Meet Activity Tracker Goals
New York based Oscar Insurance pays members up to $20 per month to wear a Misfit Flash exercise monitor and meet daily walking goals.
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Fitbit Denies Reponsibility for Skin Irritation
The CEO of Fitbit issued a statement saying that skin rashes resulting from the wearing of the Fitbit Charge are the result of poor hygiene.
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Fitbit Data to Be Used as Evidence in Court
A Canadian court will become the first in the world to accept Fitbit data as evidence in a personal injury case.
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Pivotal Life Tracker 1: A $12 Activity Monitor
The Pivotal Life Tracker 1 is a simple, inexpensive starter device for anyone interested in giving fitness tracking tech a try.
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Jawbone Introduces the UP MOVE, UP3 Activity Trackers
Jawbone's new UP MOVE clip-on activity tracker counts steps, calories burned, measures activity intensity and monitors your sleep.
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Hands on with Fitbit Charge, Charge HR & Surge
Fibit upgrades its line of activity trackers with new materials and a better design and adds continuous heart rate monitoring at the high end.
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Reign Activity Monitor Tells You When Its Optimal to Start Exercising
The Reign by Jaybird exercise tracker keeps tabs on your heart rate to push you toward activity when your body is most ready for it.
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Misfit Flash: A $49 Fitness and Sleep Tracker
The Misfit Flash activity tracker is worn on your wrist or clothes to track steps, distance, and calories burned — all for under $50.
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Apple Watch Unveiled, May Revolutionize Smartwatches
Apple's first smartwatch device, the Apple Watch, connects directly to the iPhone to offer messaging, Maps, and mobile payments on your wrist.
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Hands On: The Garmin Vivosmart Activity Tracker
This new activity tracker also gets smart notifications from Android and iOS devices.
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Asus ZenWatch: A Luxury Android Smartwatch
The Asus ZenWatch is a beautifully-designed Android smartwatch that you won't mind wearing instead of your existing watch.
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Epson Introduces its First Fitness Tracker
Printer company Epson is joining the exercise monitor industry with its new Pulsense Watch and Pulsense Band.
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Jabra Introduces Wireless Pulse-Monitoring Earbuds
The $199 Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless Earbuds send real-time pulse data to your phone by Bluetooth, keeping your workouts "in the zone."
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Moto 360 Leak Spills All the Smartwatch's Secrets
Best Buy has accidentally leaked all the details on the coming Motorola Moto 360 Google Gear smartwatch, including specs, features, materials and price.
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BioSport In-Ear Headphones Offer Battery-free Pulse Monitoring
Intel and SMS Audio have partnered to create the BioSport In-Ear Headphones, which transmits pulse data directly to your RunKeeper app.
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Timex Smartwatch Has Its Own AT&T Data Connection
The Timex IRONMAN ONE GPS+ smartwatch offers messaging and remote GPS tracking through a built-in, free (for 1 year) 3G AT&T data connection.
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NFL Launching "Next Gen Stats" Player Tracking Initiative
This season, the NFL will use shoulder pad mounted RFID chips to track players' movement, speed, acceleration and positioning.
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Lechal: A Smartshoe for the Visually Impaired
The Lechal smart shoe connects to Google Maps, using haptic feedback vibrations to tell the visually impaired when to turn.
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Tory Burch + Fitbit: Fashion-conscious Activity Tracking
Fitbit has teamed up with Tory Burch to release a line of fashion-minded accessories for its popular activity tracker.
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Google Unveils the Android Gear Smartwatch Operating System
Google's Android Gear goes beyond most smartwatch OSs, offering voice search, boarding passes, weather alerts, pizza ordering (!) and more.
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Withings Introduces the Activité, an Analog Fitness Monitor Watch
The Withings Activité looks like a high-end fashion watch, but contains a number of discrete sensors to track health and fitness via Bluetooth.
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What We Know About the Apple iWatch
Apple's long-rumored smartwatch will be arriving in stores this October, likely with messaging, fitness and health-monitoring functions.
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KidFit Activity Monitor Turns Fitness into a Game
X-Doria's KidFit fitness tracker encourages kids to walk, run and play more, giving their daily activity level a score that can be tracked over time.
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Spire Activity Monitor Measures Stress Levels
The new Spire wearable tracks your breathing to let you know when you're stressed, offering relaxation exercises in times of need.
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Google to Launch Fitness Data Aggregation Service
Google is preparing to launch Google Fit, a service to combine data from activity trackers and other wearables in one central location.
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Experts: Fitness Tracking a “Privacy Nightmare”
Fitness and health tracking devices and apps can legally sell sensitive medical information about you to the highest bidders, the WaPo says.
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Withings New Activity Monitor Measures Blood Oxygen Levels
Withings adds oxygen saturation level monitoring, a key metric for asthmatics and climbers alike, to its latest activity monitor, the Pulse O2.
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How Activity Monitors Could Cut Your Future Health Insurance Bills
Companies are looking to activity trackers like the Fitbit and Jawbone UP as a way to help limit group health insurance costs, Forbes reports.
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New TomTom Sports Watches Get Heart Rate Monitor
GPS-maker TomTom unveiled new Runner Cardio and Multi-Sport Cardio sports watches with built-in heart rate monitors and training mode.
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Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy Gear Fit Revealed
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone is slated to feature an improved 5.1" Full HD screen, a better camera, a fingerprint scanner and more.
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What’s New in Activity Trackers, SmartWatches & Other Wearable Tech
Fitness trackers, lifeloggers and kids tracking wearables have all taken a huge leap forward. Check out what is hitting the shelves this year.
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Fitbit Offering Refunds After Fitbit Force Users Report Rashes
If your new Fitbit Force fitness tracking wristband is causing rashes on you arm, you can now seek a replacement or refund from the company.
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Skulpt Aim: A Device that Measures Muscle Quality and Body Fat
The Skulpt Aim, shown for the first time at CES 2014, uses painless current to measure body muscle quality and fat percentage of specific areas of your body.
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The Future of Fitness Tech at CES 2014
From Bluetooth-powered socks that track your running style to headphones that track your blood oxygen levels, there's no shortage of new fitness tech on show at CES 2014.
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Jawbone Up Activity Tracker Gets a Welcome Upgrade
The slim Jawbone UP 24 (and updated app) activity monitor gets wireless sync and better sleep tracking. Still missing: an LED screen to see your data.
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New Helmet Tech Helps High School Coaches Track Head Injuries
Riddell's new InSite Impact Response System helmet tech monitors the frequency of hits taken by young players, thereby reducing head injuries.
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AIRO Wristband Tracks Fitness, Stress and Nutrition
The AIRO wristband goes a step beyond most activity trackers, monitoring your food intake and nutrition automatically using a built-in spectrometer.
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The Adidas miCoach SMART RUN is a Serious Running Watch
If you're looking for a full-featured running watch to take your marathon training to the next level, the Adidas SMART RUN is worth a look.
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Fitbit Force is an Activity-Tracking Smartwatch
Why buy a smartwatch and an activity tracker when you can just buy a Fitbit Force that does both?
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The Best Activity Tracker: Fitbit Flex
The $99 Fitbit Flex does a great job measuring your steps, sleep and calories burned, while winning points for super-easy syncing.
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Fitness Trackers Show Promise in Diagnosing Alzheimer's
A new study conducted by the University of Rostock shows that fitness trackers like the Fitbit could soon help diagnose dementia and Alzheimer's.
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Owlet Pulse Oximetry Baby Monitor Helps Battle SIDS
The Owlet baby monitor lets you track your baby's vital signs remotely, giving you constant piece of mind.