Tag Archives: fitness

When it comes to smartwatches, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active and Apple Watch Series 4 are among the best you can buy. They can also keep an eye on your health with many fitness tracking features, on top of the regular smartwatch functions you’d expect — like displaying notifications from your phone or listening to music …

Face on your face? Sure, why not. I used to do that with the Pebble watch years ago. There’s now a Bitmjoji watch face for the Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Ionic, which does exactly what you think it does: Your little avatar can hop onto your watch. Fitbit says there are over 50 Bitmoji animations on the watch face that …

Withings has added a bunch of customization options for its Move fitness watch, but only on its European store for now. The watch, which the company revealed at CES in January, is available in five standard colors — black and yellow gold, white and coral, white and sea blue, black and mint, and white with black and mint — for …

One of the main selling points of the Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon) is how it can contribute to helping you live a healthier life by recording workouts, completing challenges or monitoring your heart’s health. For those who are just getting started with an Apple Watch, or those who have had one for a while but never used any of …

In the middle of a conversation at dinner, I slowly lift my arm to my chest. I feel the slight compression. I wait, and it stops. My blood pressure isn’t bad. I drink my iced tea. I’ve been wearing the Omron HeartGuide on my wrist for several weeks, now. It’s the first FDA-cleared fitness watch that’s a real, serious blood …

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey recorded a podcast with a fitness personality who last month repeated a claim that “vaccines do indeed cause autism.” Host Ben Greenfield also told his followers not to trust internet watchdog Snopes in his Feb. 11 tweet, as previously reported by NBC. On Tuesday, Greenfield wrote that he and the social media CEO chatted about “advanced …

I don’t spend $1,500 on watches, but there are many who do. Garmin’s latest line of specialized watches look like they’re designed for high-end boutiques, rather than your local running gear store. The newly-announced MARQ line of “tool watches” seem pretty interesting-looking. They’re also pretty expensive. Garmin’s line of GPS smartwatches previously cracked the $900 barrier with a luxury Fenix …

(Update, August 28, 2019: Fitbit just announced its latest smartwatch, the Fitbit Versa 2. The guide below is for previous Fitbit models, and will be updated soon once we’ve reviewed the Versa 2.) Fitbit makes a lot of trackers. Even though the company’s shrunk its lineup a bit with the launch of its newest Versa Lite Edition, Inspire and Inspire …

(Fitbit’s newest smartwatch, the Versa 2, has been announced. But below is information on the budget Versa Lite that was released earlier this year, and is still available.) There used to be a ton of Fitbit trackers to choose from. But now the list is smaller: Fitbit’s streamlined its lineup and added a handful of new trackers that are aiming …

New York officials are seeking explanations following an allegation that Facebook collects personal data from apps including weight, alcohol consumption, menstrual cycles, heart rate and blood pressure. According to the Wall Street Journal, one app even allowed a person to record “sexual activity” as exercise and sent that data to Facebook. The New York Department of Financial Services sent letters on Wednesday …