Samsung Galaxy Fit review
Samsung’s going toe-to-toe against Fitbit’s Inspire HR with its own $99 fitness tracker -- the Galaxy Fit. It also has a heart rate monitor, can automatically detect six workouts, shows you all the notifications from your phone, and has a battery that can last for days -- all in a small package.
These are the best Columbus Day sales to save you money on bedding
This Columbus Day, you can save yourself money while you make your bedroom look and feel totally different. From unique and interesting quilts to sales on some of our favorite mattress brands, sleep better and easier as we settle into fall with these bedding deals.
Zone 5 Ventures wants to make it easier for companies to access sports data
Sports technology is ripe for innovation but many ideas don't make it past the drawing board. Zone 5 Ventures wants to change all that with a customizable, cloud-based platform for importing and analyzing sports data that makes it easy for a company to connect fitness data to a custom app or web experience.
Home Depot Slashes Up To 30% Off Mattresses For Columbus Day Weekend
Whether you call it Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples' Day or you're just annoyed you still have to show up to work, you can cash in on the savings and get to sleep easier on a new mattress. Through Oct. 18, Home Depot is offering up to 30% off select mattresses.
Forget the gym. Mirror brings one-on-one personal training to your living room
Mirror, a fitness-focused smart mirror, now offers one-on-one personal training in your home by utilizing the device's two-way video and audio. The service starts at $40 per session. Mirror users can also try out personalized workouts based on their biometric data with a $39 per month subscription service.
Apple may have leaked its own Apple Watch Sleep in the App Store
Apple has been rumored to be adding sleep tracking to the Apple Watch for some time now, though the feature was strangely absent from the Apple Watch Series 5 launch. Apple, however, may have leaked the existence of an upcoming Sleep app in a screenshot of another Apple Watch app.
How Endel and Toro y Moi are shaping the future of music and digital wellness
Playlists to focus, sleep, and relax are booming on streaming platforms. Similarly, a host of smart home products aim to affect your wellbeing in similar ways. Endel has a vision to unify these in a way that's always unique to you. Companies like Apple and Warner Music, as well as Toro y Moi see it too.
Ring Fit Adventure lets you break a sweat with Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch is getting a new experience designed to help you stay in shape. Ring Fit Adventure uses your body's movement to move through a world and defeat dangerous enemies. It makes use of the Joy-Con controllers for special ring and leg strap accessories, and is appropriate for all fitness levels.
Withings Move ECG review: An affordable electrocardiogram alternative
The Apple Watch Series 4 starts at $400, and while it’s feature-packed, the highlight is the electrocardiogram, which has the potential to save lives. Withings’ Move ECG has the same capability but at a fraction of the cost. It’s not as smart as the Apple Watch, but it works on Android and iOS as well.
Polar’s Ignite fitness watch puts a fire into workouts, sparks your recovery
Polar puts a fire into your workouts and ramps up your recovery with its new Ignite fitness watch. Designed for athletes and fitness enthusiasts, Polar's latest smartwatch offers advanced sleep metrics, personalized training plans, and relaxation tips to help you reach your fitness goals.
The Polar Ignite watch rekindled my fitness efforts and then doused them again
The Polar Ignite boasts heart rate tracking, built-in GPS, and in-depth activity and sleep tracking all wrapped up in an understated package, but it has a lot of competition. I tried it out for a week or so to see how accurate it is and to try and get some motivation, but the goals proved tough to meet.
Sleep Smarter: The Best Labor Day Sales on Smart Mattresses
Smart mattresses might have higher price tags than your traditional mattress, but this Labor Day you can save hundreds on mattresses that heat up and cool down, change firmness, and monitor trends in your sleep cycle.
Specialized used 3D-printing and liquid polymer to make a better bike seat
Specialized has developed a method for designing and creating bike seats using 3D printing and liquid polymers that it calls Mirror Technology. This approach allows infinite tuning of the saddle to improve comfort, stability, and safety on a level that traditional padding can't come close to replicating in any way.
The Suunto 5 sports watch is durable, but the display holds it back
Suunto set a high bar last year with the touchscreen-enabled Suunto 9, but its latest fitness watch, the Suunto 5, is a step backward. The watch offers Suunto's most exciting training and battery technology, but an uncomfortable band and low-quality display leaves us disappointed.
Keep active and get a refurbished Fitbit Charge 3 on Walmart for 25% less
The Fitbit Charge 2 has long been the company’s bestselling fitness tracker. Affordably priced and filled with health features, it has now been upgraded through the Fitbit Charge 3. It basically still does the same things but has been made better with a more refined fit, functions, and accessories. Get it for only $112 on Walmart.
Work out in style with this Fitbit Blaze smartwatch, now 21% less on Walmart
A lot of smartwatches nowadays are being marketed as fitness trackers as well. Aside from receiving smart notifications, these watches boast robust fitness tracking that makes them essential devices for the health-conscious. One such watch is the Fitbit Blaze, the company’s first smartwatch. Get it on Walmart for just $159.
Track your progress with this renewed Fitbit Versa Lite for $110 at Walmart
Fitness trackers provide you with a clearer understanding of your physical well-being without the need to see a physician. Like tiny doctors you wear on your wrist, they can measure your vitals, step count, calories burned, and more. A great and affordable fitness tracker is the Fitbit Versa Lite, now $110 on Walmart.
Get moving with Garmin’s Vivoactive 3 multisport smartwatch for $220 at Walmart
Right now, Garmin is most famous for making fitness trackers, wearables meant to compete with tech giants like Apple and Fitbit. One of their recent offerings, the Garmin Vivoactive 3, boasts a gamut of features geared towards the wellness-minded and is available at the very reasonable price of $220 on Walmart.
Wear the elegant Garmin Vivomove HR Hybrid smartwatch for 15% less on Amazon
Wearables are coming into their own and are looking less like traditional timepieces. They come in all shapes and sizes. While that's not bad, some people still want a smartwatch with a more orthodox façade, like the Garmin Vivomove HR. You can wear it on a run as well as in the boardroom for $170 on Amazon.
Fitbit Ace 2 review
With its Ace 2 fitness tracker for kids, Fitbit didn't just take one of its adult fitness bands and repackage it. The company instead listened to feedback and designed a tracker kids actually will enjoy wearing. From colorful bands to a kid-friendly interface, there's a lot to like about the Ace 2.
Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4 impressions: All the fitness tracker you need
The Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4 is one of the best value products available, and one of the only fitness bands you should consider buying. It costs a lot less than similar wearables from the big-names but does just as much, plus it has a colorful AMOLED screen, and even the option to change watch faces.
How accurate are fitness trackers and does it matter? We asked an expert
Fitness trackers are hugely popular now and they help us to count our steps, measure our heart rates, and record all of our daily activity. Whether you use a smartwatch or a simple fitness band, you may be wondering just how accurate is the underlying technology? We dug into the research and asked an expert to find out.
Specialized’s new road ebike will cure your range anxiety for good
Specialized Bikes has released a new line of ebikes that are lightweight, fast, and have an extended range of as much as 120 miles, eliminating range anxiety for riders who fear running out of battery on a long ride. Best of all, those batteries can recharge in as little as 2.5 hours, getting you on the road sooner.
Materials in new Nike Joyride running shoes put environmentalists on alert
Nike has introduced a new running shoe technology called Joyride that uses thousands of tiny plastic beats to provide a bean-bag like cushioning for the foot. But those very same beads have already become a cause for concern with environmentalists who question the use of microplastics and their impact on the planet.
Trippy VR demo reads your brain waves to create sleep-inducing visuals
Struggle to get to sleep at night? Researchers in the Exertion Games Lab at Australia’s RMIT University have been experimenting with ways to combine a person’s brain activity with virtual reality headsets to create a kind of VR lullaby machine. Here's how it works -- and what's next.
Google Fit is so buggy that some users can’t even log in
Google Fit may have gotten a major redesign less than a year ago, but it doesn't seem as though Google is keeping up with the app. According to new reports, the app is so buggy that some users can't even log in, while others are experiencing issues with syncing and tracking.
Check out the best new gear from the Summer Outdoor Retailer 2019 convention
At the 2019 summer Outdoor Retailer convention held annually in Denver, Colorado the top brands from the outdoor industry unveiled hundreds of new products to help keep us safe and comfortable in the outdoors. From boots and backpacks to sleeping bags and tents, this is the very best new outdoor gear unveiled at the show.
A cardiac arrest-detecting smart speaker could save your life
Smart speakers are great for everything from playing music to operate our smart homes. But could they soon also help save lives as well? An innovative research project from the University of Washington could help smart speakers detect cardiac arrest while you sleep.
Best Buy focuses on fitness with new range of high-tech gym equipment
Best Buy is focusing on fitness with the launch of new in-store spaces featuring a range of connected health-boosting equipment. Coming to 100 Best Buy stores this year, the collection includes everything from exercise bikes and rowing machines to treadmills and fitness recovery systems.
Want a good night’s sleep? Delete that sleep-tracking app, expert advises
Sleep-tracking apps could actually be making your sleep worse, a British sleep expert has warned. Dr Guy Leschziner, a sleep disorder specialist working at Guy's hospital in London, has said the use of sleep tracking technology can raise anxieties about sleep to the point where users can develop insomnia.
The Nowa Superbe tracks fitness, without looking like it belongs in the gym
The Nowa Superbe is not a hybrid smartwatch, as it doesn’t deliver notifications, and is instead a basic fitness tracker wearing its best party outfit, for those who hate the idea of wearing a fitness tracker that looks like it really only belongs in the gym. We've worn it for a few days to see how it performs.
Amazon slices Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Ionic smartwatch prices by up to 20%
Miss our Fitbit Ionic and Versa smartwatch deal from April? While Rakuten has since sold out of its stock, Amazon has a deal on either fitness smartwatch that matches Rakuten's price, saving you up to 20%. Get to work on that summer bod (there's still time left).
The Coros Pace GPS smartwatch gets a $100 price cut from Amazon
There's more to fitness trackers than Fitbit and Garmin: The excellent Coros Pace is a GPS watch that’s perfect for runners and marathoners (and great for other activities as well), and it just got a nice 33% discount on Amazon.
Forget foam. This fluid-filled helmet mimics your brain to protect your head
The Fluid Inside head protection system is designed to not just protect an athletes skull, but the brain as well, by mimicking the fluids that protect us from repeated impacts and sudden, jarring hits. The system is more than the sum of its parts however, strategically placing the fluid pods to prevent the most common sport injuries.