by Alfred Poor | June 1, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the recurring themes here at Health Tech Insider is the fact that when it comes to winning strategies for wearable devices, more functions beats fewer functions. We are starting to leave the “one-trick-pony” stage of the industry, and starting to...
by riddhi | August 3, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
FocusMotion can turn any wearable into your own personal fitness trainer. The company now offers an SDK that will use the wearable device’s accelerometer, gyroscope, electromyography, and magnetometer to analyze a user’s movement and pace. A series of algorithms train...
by Alfred Poor | May 26, 2015 | Health
There’s a saying in software development that the smallest code changes are often the most expensive; a little change can have unintended consequences elsewhere. It appears that Apple may have provided another demonstration of this lesson with its first upgrade...
by Alfred Poor | January 13, 2015 | Fitness, Health
One problem with many of the wearable Health Tech products and services is that they are islands unto themselves. Their data is stored away in proprietary silos, making it difficult for users (and healthcare practitioners) to combine information from different sources...
by Alfred Poor | December 9, 2014 | Fitness
A recent report from Gartner predicts that in 2015, half of the consumers who are considering a fitness band will choose to buy a smartwatch instead. Part of their reasoning is that the feature set for smartwatches is overlapping those of traditional fitness bands,...
