Intel is now looking to enter the wearable world with yesterday’s purchase of Recon Instruments, creators of augmented reality snowsport goggles. Recon is best known for helping create the Oakley Airwave, a pair of skiing goggles with a built-in GPS and heads-up display. Intel’s acquisition of the Vancouver based company was foreshadowed in 2013 when […]
Blast Motion is a video capturing software and motion sensor that can measure movement, create highlights of action, and lay real-time metrics over footage taken with a smartphone. Today, Blast Motion announced the release of 3.3, its latest update to their wearable motion capturing technology. In this new release there are many new app functions […]
Polar, a heart rate data provider for many teams and athletes around the world, launched a new sports coaching solution hardware that consists of sensors that enable quick data transferring and a dock that results in quick charging times. At 38 grams, it claims to be the world’s lightest all-in-one sensor that combines GPS capabilities […]
Check out our two stories in July on the Wearable Tech Conference available here and here. This summer I had the pleasure of attending the Wearable Tech Expo (#wearabletechcon) including the Fitness & Sports Technology Conference (FAST) in New York City. I heard from dozens of industry insiders about the current state of wearables and development efforts. One general arc that I took from the conference was that the current startups and even mid-level players are ripe for acquisition. Four noticeable companies who did not attend the conference were FitBit, the global leader in activity trackers, LG, Google, and Apple. It is rather obvious that these three companies are going to lead the wearables industry into great adaption by the consumer market;...
