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New Study Says Popularity of Smartwatches Is Close To That Of Fitness Trackers

Activity trackers have grown into a fitness guru’s “best friend”, but after a recent study, another wearable option is coming for the title. Smartwatches are the newest of popular wearable tech among exercise groups. Although the activity tracker still leads in most exercise categories, the gap is narrowing. So where is the shift beginning? According to the […]

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Basketball Coaching App For Smartwatches Launches Crowdfunding Campaign

Canadian tech startup, Onyx Motion Inc. has launched a crowdfunding campaign to release The Swish App, the world’s first digital basketball coaching app for smart watches. The founder Marisa Wu, an engineering student at the University of Toronto, created this smart tech with motion sensors so that basketball players could analyze their technique on their own. Swish […]

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Why Fitness Wearables Need to Improve Society’s Health

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that a staggering 69 percent of adults aged 20 years and over are either overweight or obese. It is almost unfathomable that arguably the easiest disease to prevent also stands as one of the most debilitating in our country. Despite the shift to electronic-dependent behaviors that […]

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