Fitbit IPO shines the spotlight on wearable tech with a $3.7 billion valuation
Update, June 18: Fitbit stock soars well above expectations, landing among top 10 market debuts this year In May, FitBit filed for a $100 million IPO, making it the first pure wearable technology...
View ArticleHow the USWNT used wearables to win the 2015 Women’s World Cup
This Sunday, soccer fans across the globe held their breath in suspense as the U.S. Women’s National Team dominated Japan in the final game of the 2015 Women’s World Cup. After a devastating loss to...
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Fashion-favorite Rebecca Minkoff designs tech jewelry to keep your smartphone...
In mid-2014, fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff teamed up with Case-Mate to create a line of wearables that would strike the hard-won perfect balance between disguising embedded tech and promoting an...
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New research on Microsoft’s WearDrive could save your battery’s life
Ritualizing the charging habits for your wearables may be a thing of the past, thanks to new research at Microsoft. The battery life on many wearables could be getting a major facelift in the...
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Misfit Flash Link revealed: A $20 fitness and smart home device
Following the lead of the budget-conscious Xiaomi Mi Band, Misfit Wearables has released the Flash Link, a $20 plastic clip-on wearable packing more features than its predecessor at a much more...
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The best fitness trackers in 2015 under $100: Fitbit, Moov, Misfit, and more
The sheer number of fitness trackers currently on the market can make it difficult to choose the best one for your lifestyle, especially when you are on a budget. But have no fear! You need not...
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Don’t train this summer without these 5 pieces of heat-monitoring wearable tech
With activity trackers on the wrists of millions, it’s important to remember that the human body can become overheated in just a matter of a few hours. In the first decade of the 2000s, the number of...
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New to the Wearables.com Database: Jawbone UP4
Each Friday, we alert our readers as to what devices and companies we’ve added to the authoritative Wearables.com Database over the course of the week. This week we’ve added the Jawbone UP4. Jawbone...
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The best wearables for a water workout, from swimming watches to swimming...
The dog days of summer are in full swing, and with scorching temperatures on the rise, a dip in a pool or a swim in the ocean sounds downright appealing. Whether you’re a rugged survivalist or just...
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The best golf wearables to improve your game and swing
Despite what you may think, golf isn’t your dad’s sport anymore. With wearable technology breaking into many facets of our lives, it was only a matter of time before we found a way to quantify our...
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Bragi: The In Ear Wearable
Add another wearable to the list of Kickstarter campaign dominations! Bragi’s kickstarter for their Dash earbuds raised a total of $3,390,551, or in other words more than 13 times their goal raise of...
View ArticleApple’s New Wearables Heavy Ad
Apple’s newest TV ad is in full rotation and focuses heavily on fitness and activity tracking wearables. The video ends with the caption, “You’re more powerful than you think.” This coupled with...
View ArticleGoogle Fit to Compete with HealthKit
A few weeks ago we reported on Apple’s launching of HealthKit with iOS 8, which will act as a health platform for all wearable devices to connect to. Consumers will have the ability to interact with...
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Microsoft to Release Wearable Fitness Tracker
Microsoft reportedly has plans to release its first wearable this fall, a wrist worn fitness tracker and smart band by most reports. According to a report by the historically accurate insider Paul...
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Adidas Releases The Fit Smart for miCoach
Adidas has released its newest addition to its miCoach wearable ecosystem, a fitness tracker called Fit Smart, whose design reinstates the mantra that less is more in the wearable field. After the...
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Misfit Reveals Beddit Sleep System
Misfit Wearables has joined forces with Beddit Sleep Monitor to create the Misfit Beddit Sleep System. The system combines the sensor technology of both young companies to help users understand their...
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LG Reveals Kid Friendly KizON
LG Electronics announced the release of its new wearable called KizON, a smart wristband designed for pre-elementary to elementary aged kids to help parents have a peace of mind on their kids’...
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Nike Gives Free Gear for Fuel Points
As Nike transitions its FuelBand into a platform and away from just hardware, it has begun to find ways to integrate the band into more rewarding aspects of its user’s lives. For a single day in...
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Misfit Partners With MyFitnessPal
The Misfit Shine app for iOS, which works as a fitness tracker, has now partnered with the health app MyFitnessPal to create a fully formed fitness app from head to toe. The Misfit Shine +...
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Jawbone’s UP and The Napa Earthquake
Jawbone’s UP activity tracker monitors everything from fitness to diet to sleep, but it wasn’t until recently that the company used its wearer’s data to understand in-depth how natural disasters affect...
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How Companies Can Use Fitness Data to Drive Insurance Discounts
The following is a guest post by Patrick Hitchins, Co-Founder of FitChimp and FitRankings.com. Leading companies are beginning to use employee fitness data via wearable devices to empower + reward...
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Fitbit Won’t Be Integrating with Healthkit Anytime Soon
Since Apple mentioned Fitbit during the first presentation of HealthKit and the Health app, it seemed like the logical next step in the relationship would be to have the two companies work together....
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Get Fit in a Flash with Misfit’s New Tracker
Misfit is trying to bring down the barrier to owning a wearable device with their newest fitness tracker the Misfit Flash. With a cheaper polycarbonate casing, Misfit Flash will be the most affordable...
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Microsoft Goes Wearable with ‘Band’
Microsoft has been rumored to be seriously releasing a smartwatch of some kind for months now. Really, the rumors even go back to 2013. But as of this past Thursday in what was a surprise announcement,...
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Misfit Introduces “Technical Tee”
Misfit Wearables, the maker of the Flash and Shine, has released another addition, the “technical tee”, to their growing line of products. Source: Misfit Wearables. The high performance work-out...
View ArticleFox Business Asks Wearables.com About Consumer Fitness Bands
Our CEO, Luis Rincon, recently sat with Gerri Willis of The Willis Report on Fox Business News to discuss the multiple new consumer fitness bands that have hit the market in hopes of capitalizing on...
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Google Fit in the Wild
After the Google Fit SDK being out for a little over two months now, Google’s health platform is now live across devices, marking the beginning of the war of health platforms. Source: Google Fit....
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Apple to Clean Out Bose & Fitbit from Stores
It appears that Fitbit is having a ‘bit’ of a falling out with Apple. The fitness tracker won’t be integrating with Apple’s Healthkit, and doesn’t exactly have any plans to. Now, it appears that Apple...
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Coke Teams Up with Misfit for Wearable Just Dance Game
Coke, the largest soft-drink manufacturer in the world, will be entering the wearables arena to create a new Just Dance game along with Misfit Wearables to encourage healthy living for teens. The...
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MOOV Gets Moving with New Funding
Dubbed “a personal coach at a [fitness] tracker price,” by the LA Times, MOOV isn’t your ordinary wearable fitness tracker. As opposed to many trackers out in the market that simply keep note of your...
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Jawbone’s Two New Trackers to Tackle Both Ends of the Market
Jawbone has long been one of the dominant market leaders in fitness trackers, but even with their greatly designed devices, some consumers have chosen not to adopt this new wave of self-quantifying due...
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A Look At Fitbit’s 3 Newest Trackers
Fitbit has had all kinds of buzz lately, particularly in regards to their falling out with Apple. As a quick recap, Fitbit firstly decided not to integrate their heavily used fitness trackers with...
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CES 2015 Wearables Wrap Up
It’s been an exciting week here in Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show. We saw some amazing new products that we can’t wait to get our hands on and we were blown away by the...
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FDA Not Likely to Regulate Activity Tracking Wearables
The US Food and Drug Administration has addressed health and fitness wearables in a draft guidance document — and it seems that the FDA will not be regulating any products that are intended for...
View ArticleMisfit Announces Partnerships for a Wearable Connected Life
Misfit Wearables has announced a new initiative to bring a more connected experience with the world around you. Major partnerships include Nest for a controlled smart home experience, as well as...
View ArticleHuman API Raises $6 Million
Human API is one step closer to connecting users to their health data sources thanks to capitalist venture companies. A SEC filing reveals that the startup has raised $6.6 million in a round of Series...
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Cuff Raises Millions, Teams Up With Richline
Cuff wants to bring the world of fashionable jewelry to wearable technology, and now with a new investment of $5 million led by NEA, they are off to do just that*. The startup has created pieces of...
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Geeksphone Plans Smartband To Track Sexual Performance
Geeksphone is planning to enter the wearables market. The Madrid-based smartphone company, which is most well known for the pro-privacy Blackphone and dual-operating system Revolution, is developing an...
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Fitbit Surge spotted on Obama, cycling tracking to come
It can’t hurt to have the President of the United States photographed wearing your product. Such a photo op has certainly garnered attention for Fitbit, whose Surge fitness watch ended up on the wrist...
View ArticleHow Jiff’s healthcare technology platform incentivizes employees
Jiff wants to revolutionize the “one-size-fits-all” approach to employer healthcare benefits. The Palo Alto company, whose board includes entrepreneur Stan Chudnovsky and Jiff co-founder James Currier,...
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A smart hat takes home top honor of wearable product of the year
While most activity trackers come in the form of wristbands or chest straps, Spree’s SmartCap sits on your head like the average baseball cap. Perhaps because of the wearable’s ability to blend in with...
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Jawbone UP4: The first pure activity tracker capable of NFC payments
“[T]here is so much more you can do to improve people’s life once you have a wearable on the body,” wrote Travis Bogard, vice president of product management and strategy at Jawbone. “Increasingly we...
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Joe Boxer’s inactivity tracker is part of cheeky new marketing campaign
Well, there really is a wearable for everyone. With activity trackers like Fitbit and Jawbone becoming more popular by the day, Kmart saw a marketing opportunity for its pajama brand Joe Boxer. The...
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Fitbit files for $100 million IPO, seeks NYSE listing
Keep your eyes peeled for FIT on the New York Stock Exchange. That’s the ticker symbol Fitbit revealed when it filed for a $100 million initial public offering on Thursday. The San Francisco-based...
View ArticleFitbit sleep tracking lawsuit draws attention after IPO announcement
Not even a week after Fitbit filed for a $100 million IPO was the company slapped with a lawsuit by a disgruntled customer for “willingly, falsely, and knowingly” misrepresenting “the character and...
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Garmin’s new Forerunner 225 ups the ante with optical heart rate
It was only a matter of time before GPS kingpin Garmin released a watch that can do more than count and track steps, behave as an accelerometer, and have an almost disturbing capability to accurately...
View ArticleGoogle Shopping exec joins Jawbone as president
After six years as an executive at one of the world’s most powerful companies, Sameer Samat, VP of Product Management at Google, has abandoned ship to accept a position as president of California-based...
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Avia-specific activity trackers to help you achieve your “Smart Goals”
Avia has earned its share of the athletic footwear and activewear apparel marketplaces since 1979. This week, the brand entered into the wearable tech game by announcing the introduction of...
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6 wearables to gift gadget-loving graduates
As graduation season draws to a close, a great wave of change takes sweeps over young adults’ lives. Once they step out of their caps and gowns, college graduates (hopefully) bid farewell to a...
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5 wearable Father’s Day gifts guaranteed to get him moving and grooving...
Dads can be the trickiest people to shop for. We are, after all, talking about the man who probably taught you how to ride a bike, file your taxes, fix a flat tire, and grill a steak. So sure, you...
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