Withings’ New Pulse Adds an O2 Monitor So You Can Breathe Easy

Withings' New Pulse Adds an O2 Monitor So You Can Breathe Easy

Last year, Withings’ Pulse fitness monitor impressed us with the plethora of data it collects—including, as the name suggests, your pulse. This year’s update adds yet one more handy feature: a blood oxygen monitor. Mountain climbers, now you can breathe easy.

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Breeze: Finally, a RunKeeper For Those Who’d Rather Walk

Breeze: Finally, a RunKeeper For Those Who'd Rather Walk

We really dig RunKeeper, the smart fitness app that keeps track of your jogs . But how’s an anti-jogger supposed to get in on all the fitness tracking? Enter Breeze, RunKeeper’s brand-new walk-tracking iPhone app for people who prefer a saunter to a sprint.

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Samsung Gear Fit Review: A Beautiful Wristable Gone to Waste

Samsung Gear Fit Review: A Beautiful Wristable Gone to Waste

Samsung’s Gear Fit had every chance to be by far the best activity tracker you could own. It isn’t. Not by a long shot. And there’s nothing sadder than unrealized potential.

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Garmin Vivofit Review: Some Good Ideas But Not Quite There

Garmin Vivofit Review: Some Good Ideas But Not Quite There

In the ever-expanding pantheon of wearable fitness trackers, Garmin is looking for an open seat, ideally at the Cool Kids’ Table (CKT). Garmin makes some of the best GPS sports watches out there, so expectations were high for the company’s first tracker. While it adds a nice trick or two, the holes are just too many.

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A Lightweight, Waterproof Fitness Watch That’s Worth the Price

A Lightweight, Waterproof Fitness Watch That’s Worth the Price

At $250, TomTom’s Multisport HRM GPS watch is more expensive than its competitors, but that’s because it does so much more.

    



Intel Just Bought Itself One of the Best Fitness Trackers Out There

Intel Just Bought Itself One of the Best Fitness Trackers Out There

Intel just bought Basis—makers of one of the best fitness trackers out there —for somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million dollars so it doesn’t horribly miss the boat on wearables the way it did on phones. For now, that means a really great wearable is off the market, but Basic’s guts are bound to rise again. It’s just a question of how.

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Sony's SmartBand Activity Tracker Is Real and Coming In March

Sony's SmartBand Activity Tracker Is Real and Coming In March

Back in January at CES, we got a very brief look at Sony’s first activity tracker, dubbed The Core. It’s a tiny little pod that can be worn on your wrist in its SmartBand, or tucked discreetly into your pocket. The CES announcement was really just a tease, but finally a few more details have been unloosed, including its rapidly-approaching availability.

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Bloomberg: HTC Has Three New Wearables in the Works

Bloomberg: HTC Has Three New Wearables in the Works

Bloomberg is reporting that HTC will unveil the first of three new pieces of wearable technology to carriers at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.

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Sony’s Tiny Activity Tracker Is Adorable and… Emotional?

Sony's Tiny Activity Tracker Is Adorable and... Emotional?

Sony just got into the wearable activity tracker game, with their new product, The Core. The Core—which looks like it’s about one inch long by half an inch wide—can be worn in a pocket or placed into a sleek wrist band. Sony says it may be the smallest product they’ve ever made.

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Epson’s Activity Trackers Keep an Eye On Your Heart Rate

Epson's Activity Trackers Keep an Eye On Your Heart Rate

Because you are not allowed to be a company anymore if you don’t make an activity tracker, Epson is getting in on the action with its first two entries into the product category. While most of these are a dime a dozen, Epson’s Pulsense products might actually have a leg up on their competition: Built-in heart-rate monitoring.

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