Wearable sports technology company Polar added an apparel category to its growing fitness portfolio, it was announced Tuesday. The Polar Team Pro Shirt, which replaces a traditional chest strap monitor, will integrate proprietary heart rate technology onto the shirt’s fabric in addition to a GPS tracking sensor for coaches to glean insight into various player […]
The Paris Navigating Gym will rely on its passengers to stay afloat, literally. Gym memberships won’t keep the gym going — the passengers pedaling will. Created by international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati, the Paris Navigating Gym project is designed to be a human-powered boat that floats the Seine River using energy from passenger […]
Under Armour recently highlighted data from its connected fitness community, which now includes more than 190 million worldwide users and consists of workout apps and platforms like MyFitnessPal, MapMyRun, UA Record and Endomondo. With 2016 winding down, here is some information from the 800 million workouts tracked by Under Armour along with a detailed infographic illustrating […]
The first swimming app designed for the Apple Watch, MySwimPro, was recently named the Apple Watch App of the Year, as selected by Apple Store editors. As a member of the University of Michigan Desai Accelerator 2016 cohort, MySwimPro delivers customized workouts and instructional video content to swimmers, both amateur and advanced, who are trying to achieve […]
The fitness band maker, Fitbit, has acquired certain personnel and intellectual property rights from technology startup Pebble, it announced on Wednesday. The assets acquired by the nearly 10-year-old Fitbit are tied to software and firmware but wont include Pebble’s hardware products. The deal will include the hiring of Pebble’s software engineers while some of the intellectual […]
