by Alfred Poor | June 25, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health, Medical
Researchers at Samsung’s Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC) announced a new reference design for a sensor-studded wristband, with the goal of helping establish an open source standard for WellTech devices. They demonstrated their “Simband” last...
by Alfred Poor | June 23, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
The WellTech market is exploding with a wide range of fitness and health devices, and the pipeline is crammed full of new and exciting projects that will come to market in the years to come. But why is this happening now? Why didn’t this explosion start years...
by Alfred Poor | June 19, 2014 | Fitness
“Sitting is the new smoking.” The sedentary lifestyle of the typical office worker is cause for growing concern among individuals and fitness advocates. According to some sources, you burn twice as many calories when standing compared with sitting —...
by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2014 | Fitness
Today, Spire announced its new health and fitness product. In the company’s press release, it describes this device that is more than a fitness tracker. In addition to monitoring your daily motion, it also tracks your respiration. Your breathing patterns can...
by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2014 | Fitness
Sure, health and medical applications are likely to drive WellTech device development in the near term, because we spend a lot of money on those fields and can justify relatively expensive devices if they can deliver overall savings. But there’s another field...
by Alfred Poor | June 17, 2014 | Fitness
According to a report on The BitBag, Windows Phone 8.1 users will soon get support for the popular Fitbit device “soon.” Windows Phone users have been left out of much of the WellTech health and fitness market, as the iOS and Android platforms offer much...
