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Fitbit Purchases European Smartwatch Startup Vector Watch

Fitbit is continuing its push to acquire smartwatch companies. The San Francisco-based company recently purchased Vector Watch, a startup company which manufactures chic smartwatches. Vector made the announcement by posting a message to its website. “We believe this is an important milestone as a moment when we will start building other new and amazing products, features […]

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University Makes Fitbits Mandatory For Student Body

In an effort to ditch its old-fashioned methods of monitoring student health, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has turned to wearable technology for help. While the school does have a history of making students meet strict fitness goals, this new step is taking the school to a whole new level, never practiced by any […]

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The Top 9 Smartwatches From a Fitness Perspective

If you are an athlete or fitness guru chances are you have considered purchasing a fitness tracker at one point or another. But with so many choices and growing number of features it is difficult to decide which one will work best for you. So we created a table comparing the characteristics and capabilities of […]

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Garmin Announces New Smartwatch

Garmin announced the Forerunner 225 yesterday, a new smartwatch that doubles as an all-day activity tracker. It is Garmin’s first GPS watch capable of monitoring heart rate at the wrist. Unlike Garmin’s other smartwatches, the Forerunner 225 will not require a wireless chest strap to monitor heart-rate levels. To make this possible, Garmin partnered with […]

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