There are so many different 'smart' things these days, it is borderline shocking that the concept behind UniverSole has not been done yet. UniverSole makes a sort-of smart shoe insole. Before you disregard this as frivolous, the sole, and gait of a person plays a huge role in overall lower body health. If [...]
Are you drinking enough water? If you are anything like me and drink entirely too much coffee, probably not. Well we may have just come across the solution. One new crowdfunding campaign wants to help people answer the above question. The Hug, from Caktus: According to Caktus: The Hug is a convenient solution that helps you [...]
For athletes in some of the most rigorous sports, breathing training is as important as strength and conditioning. In fact the two go hand in hand. Training the way you breathe helps improve your endurance and thus your performance as well. A new device, the Pro2, currently on Kickstarter is an easy to use tool [...]
Breathing Fitness Monitor Pro2 There are a ton of fitness products and software out there these days. That said, we just came across one of the most unique fitness trainers we have ever seen. The PrO2. The PrO2 is a unique breathing trainer. "PrO2™ tracks and improves performance using breathing exercises to strengthen the [...]
Under Desk Elliptical Cubii Being in the tech world you probably spend most of your time behind a desk. Perhaps your plotting the next Facebook, fielding customer service calls for a new startup, or working on something edtech related. Whatever the case may be, you, like me, spend the bulk of your day in a [...]
In what is really an uncharacteristic change of roles, it looks likes Google is taking a page out of Apple's playbook. According to Forbes, at Google's upcoming I/O conference, the company will unveil a new health service: Google is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers [...]
Among many thing announced by Apple on Monday at WWDC was HealthKit. The new iOS 8 functionality has been a long-time coming, and has been the subject of several leaks over the past few months. Anyhow, HealthKit acts a central hub/repository where third-party apps can store data in one central location. The idea being that [...]
We just came across an interesting new crowdfunding campaign. The VIDAMETER presents a new take on the health/fitness trackers. The smart band provides a much fuller picture than the current health/fitness wearables. As the fitness wearable market stands today, the majority of the products offer the detection of isolated vitality and fitness signs, so that [...]
It is clear that the new Galaxy S5 and the new Samsung's new wearables are incredibly unique and feature-rich. That said, many of the lower-level functions can be achieved with your current smartphone.
