Bike Light Projects Your Presence [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2015 | Fitness, Health

The Blaze Laserlight is not strictly a wearable, though I suppose you could strap it onto your bike helmet instead of your handlebars if you wanted. And it’s not really a Health Tech device, except in the preventative sense; it is designed to help cyclists avoid...

Multi-Sensor Band Nears Delivery [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2015 | Fitness, Health

Angel is a new entry into the fitness band market. If you’re going to be late to the party, you better bring something special. It remains to be seen whether or not Angel will be able to deliver on its potential. To start, the band has less; there’s no...

Sensor-Shirts for Young Athletes

by Alfred Poor | February 5, 2015 | Fitness

Now kids can get the same beneifits of biometric tracking that professional athletes can. Hexoskin has announced their first “smart shirt” for kids and teens.1 We’ve covered Hexoskin in the past here at Health Tech Insider. The company’s shirts...

Wearable Sensor Market Poised for Rapid Growth

by Alfred Poor | February 3, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health, Medical

The explosive expansion of the wearable device market — especially for Health Tech applications — has resulted in unprecedented growth in the demand for sensors. Already a key component of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, the need for more...

CES 2015: A Modular Wearable Computer [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2015 | Fitness, Health

Lots of products at CES 2015 don’t exist. Some are waiting to go into production, while some remain little more than a gleam in their creator’s eye. Somewhere between these two extremes lies HIRIS. The team behind it has been working on it for a few years,...

CES 2015: Find the Fitness Band in This Photo

by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2015 | Fitness

We don’t generally cover products here that are just fitness devices. However, I’m making an exception for the Flip health and fitness monitor because it could be a bellwether for Health Tech wearable devices of the future. I saw this at CES 2015, and it...