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Against my better judgment, I never rode a helmet when I biked to campus in college. I didn’t want to deal with mussed-up hair, and I didn’t want to have to worry about how I was going to cart around my helmet all day — it was a mat...
Before neuropsychologist Dr. Amy Serin invented the Buzzies, she assumed that they already existed. “This has be accessible already,” she said as she searched for a device that applied the kind of treatments she used in her practice. &ldq...
Considering that smartwatches aim to complement, and in some cases replace, smartphones during certain activities, it’s ironic that both devices face the same complaint from consumers — short battery life. This issue stems from a choice...
My most embarrassing day in the gym involved a dumbbell, a workout bench, and a stray earphone wire. I was sitting on a bench doing dumbbell curls, facing the mirror, making aggressive faces to assert my gym-dominance (naturally) — when the ed...
Consumers usually rate the design of a smartwatch based on specs like display size, screen resolution, and weight, but the value of customization is often overlooked. Take the Samsung Gear S3, for example. Its 1.3-inch, 360x360 AMOLED display is ...
Prosthetics might not be the first product line you associate with wearables, but CES 2017 demonstrated just how many platforms there are within the industry. Many wearables, such as activity trackers and fitness watches, improve physical health, bu...
It wasn’t until I started religiously wearing a smartwatch that I realized I was constantly playing a game of catch-up: either my phone was dying or my Pebble Time Round was. No one wants to live with dead electronics, but your options for com...
The life of a top-tier athlete is gruelling. They frequently have to wake up early to train, work until their body reaches its limit, and then prick their finger in order to bleed onto a testing strip. That last part may not be mentioned in Nike com...
Throughout her studies in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and her work in a wound lab at Northwestern University, two concepts were ingrained in Ran Ma’s mind: start with a problem, and then find a way to prevent it. As the ...
We’re going to talk about police violence for a second. I know: it’s a tricky, fragmented, and complex topic, but it’s easier to approach with hard numbers. According to the ACLU, police killed six people in Australia, two in Englan...
The beauty of the wearable era is that you can track every fact about your life. Want to know what your heart rate was on Oct. 17 of last year? Just pull it up in an app. Curious whether your got more sleep this week or last week? The data is right t...
At CES this year, Sports Tracker, which is owned by Finnish company Amer Sports, came to show off their revamped app with the help of three gold medal Olympians: snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington, hurdler Brianna Rollins, and diver David Boudia. And ...
Activity trackers, smart clothing, and sports watches were all well-represented at CES 2017, but a new type of device might soon drive the fitness wearables marketplace. According to Steven LeBoeuf, President and co-founder of Valencell, hearables l...
In the midst of a bustling exhibit floor at CES, there’s one easy way to capture tons of attention: bring a dog. Jagger & Lewis, a company based in France, had good reason to bring a four-legged friendto their booth — two members of t...
At this year’s CES, if you wanted to see some genuinely forward-thinking consumer tech, you wouldn’t have to go to the packed Sony keynote, and you wouldn’t have to brave the massive exhibit halls to see booths from industry leaders...
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