Exercise Monitors
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Polar's Vantage M3 Delivers Premium Multi-Sport Features Under $400
The Polar Vantage M3 is built for multi-sport athletes who want the latest technology to train smarter and recover better – without breaking the bank.
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Pixel Watch 3 or Watch 2? This Is How You Should Choose
Can't decide between the Pixel Watch 2 and Watch 3? I break down the differences between the two models to help you figure out which one is right for you.
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Amazfit T-Rex 3: A High-End Rugged Smart Watch at a Mid-Range Price
T-Rex 3 brings premium features to rugged smartwatches for half the price of its rivals. Enjoy offline maps, a super-bright display, and 27-day battery.
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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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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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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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7 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Techlicious 2015 Best of CES Awards
Our editors pick their favorite consumer tech products at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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The 5 Best Sport Watches
Today's sport watches can tell you how fast you’re running, your heart rate, how many calories you’re burning and more, but which one is right for you?
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Sony Announces the Wearable SmartWatch 2
Sony will release of the SmartWatch 2, a full color, Android-compatible, wearable computer, later this Fall.
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GeoPalz Ibitz Pedometer Rewards Your Kids For Exercising
The more your kids exercise, the more they are rewarded with the GeoPalz mobile games.
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Nike+ FuelBand Tracks Every Move You Make
Nike+ FuelBand monitors all your daily activity, from running to playing video games, and keeps you updated on the web or your iPhone.