May 23
In a crowded wearable market, Fitbit reigns supreme. In Q1 2014, research firm Canalys says Fitbit occupied 50% of overall shipments, leaving the rest of the market searching for a … Continue reading
Mar 26
Garmin’s Vivofit Has Some Neat Features, But How Does It Compare To Other Wearables?
Posted in: Today's ChiliGarmin had the world by the tail. With their amazing in-car GPS devices and great sports watches, it looked like things could only go up. Until every phone on the market got a GPS chip and Google mapped the world. Now, Garmin has to play catch-up and they’re coming after one of the most popular wearables to date – the Fitbit. Their new band, called the Vivofit, looks like a less-expensive… Read More
Mar 26
Fitbit Tops 1M Downloads On Android, Now Works With 44 Android And iOS Devices
Posted in: Today's ChiliFitbit was a key part of HTC’s One (M8) announcement yesterday, as it’s coming preloaded on devices in select markets, to act as the fitness hub of the new Android flagship. But it’s making strides across all Android devices, with one million downloads total of its free fitness tracking app for Google’s mobile OS. That’s one million in two years, since Fitbit… Read More
Mar 25
Fitbit Partnership With HTC Gives It A Leg Up In The Fitness Tracking Space
Posted in: Today's ChiliSmartphone manufacturers are increasingly focusing on health and fitness as part of their platform offerings, but HTC didn’t build its own homegrown health tracking solution with the new HTC One (M8). Instead, it partnered with category leader and successful startup Fitbit, the SF-based company that builds wearable trackers like the Fitbit Force and Flex, preloading their software on all new… Read More
Mar 21
Tappy Fit Channels Flappy Bird Addiction Into Fitness Motivation Using Fitbit Data
Posted in: Today's ChiliA new game out now on the App Store features mechanics virtually identical to those found in viral hit Flappy Bird, but with a key twist – the game can be made easier through sheer physical effort. Using the Fitbit API, developer Aaron Coleman built-in a variable difficulty engine that allows you to redeem steps counted during a day in exchange for in-game rewards, like wider gaps between… Read More
Mar 20
If you were wondering why have your electronics retailers stopped stocking the Fitbit Force fitness band, you probably haven’t been following the news. Earlier this year, Fitbit Force users complained that the device caused them skin irritations.
After a little bit of back and forth, Fitbit decided the best course is to perform a product recall and work with a government agency to determine what was the issue. It seemed like standard procedure, but it seems that some people felt that Fitbit were misleading in their actions which has since led to a San Diego law firm filing a lawsuit against the company. (more…)
Fitbit Hit With Lawsuit Over Skin Rashes original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 13
The wearables market is booming, particularly for fitness related devices that can track activities. One of the popular fitness bands out there comes from Fitbit and is called the Fitbit … Continue reading
Mar 05
Fitbit Working With Government Agency To Resolve Fitbit Force Skin Irritations
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You might recall that earlier this year, there were several Fitbit Force users who had complained that the fitness band had given them skin irritations. While Fitbit claims that the issue is not widespread, the company has decided to recall the products anyway just to be safe.
According to Fitbit’s CEO, he claimed that the company had done their own testing and could find nothing wrong with the product. However it seems that whatever it is that is causing the skin irritations has yet to be resolved, to the extent where the company has recently revealed that they are working with the government’s Consumer Products Safety Commission to determine what could be the cause. (more…)
Fitbit Working With Government Agency To Resolve Fitbit Force Skin Irritations original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 28
Netflix recently held a Hack Day for its engineers to come up with tweaks to the popular streaming video service. Even though the activity was made primarily for fun, one of the resulting hacks is quite promising: a hack that uses information from a Fitbit to detect when you fall asleep and then pauses the video in response. It could give lazy people a reason to buy a fitness tracker.
Made by Sam Horner, Rachel Nordman, Arlene Aficial, Sam Park and Bogdan Ciuca, the Sleep Tracker not only pauses the video but also makes a bookmark of that point. And then it’ll report the boring video to Netflix. Just kidding. It should though.
Netflix makes no guarantee that the hack will make it into their software, specially since not everyone has a Fitbit or fitness tracker in general. But wouldn’t it be nice if all displays had this technology built in? Check out the Netflix blog to see more hacks from their engineers.
[via TechCrunch]
Feb 28
Falling asleep while watching Netflix is the worst. Invariably you miss all the meat of whatever you’re watching, and snap awake to the closing credits (or your morning alarm). Ugh. But a bunch of Netflix engineers have a (theoretical) solution: a Fitbit hack that pauses your stream when the wearable senses you’ve fallen asleep.
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