5 Fitness Trackers That Don’t Look like Fitness Trackers
Tech February 5, 2024
“How do you like your tracker?” asks the cashier at the grocery store. Ugh. You so wanted to talk to random people about your fitness tracker over-and-over… except, no. Thankfully, you don’t have to look like an early adopter to be one. Here are five fitness trackers, from the... Read more
8 Completely Wireless Earbuds to Revolutionize Workouts
Tech February 1, 2024
There comes a time in every adult’s life when she has to face the important facts about life: most headphones will not stay in your ears during a good workout. What’s worse, they will probably rip out of your ears right in the middle of your final rep, lap, max... Read more
Athos Connected Apparel; Next Level Smart Clothes
Tech January 28, 2024
Track the movement of each muscle, down to the fiber, without wires and lab technicians. Sound impossible? Expensive? Athos Connected Apparel is neither. While most conversations about wearables are focused on making them disappear, there is one product, which has gone the other direction. If Athos is the product for your... Read more
3 Fitness Trackers That Will Improve Your Punches
Tech January 27, 2024
Combat may be the oldest form of fitness, predating sport. Since the dawn of humanity, fighting has been a part of our existence; the fight against other humans for power, animals for food, nature for survival. It’s no wonder so many people today find a practice of the fighting... Read more
Under Armour’s High Tech Shoes Do It All
Tech January 20, 2024
Rolled out this year, the Under Armour (UA) Speedform Gemini 2 RE will track your activity similar to a wristband, but without the added weight bouncing on your arm. RE stands for Record Equipped, but it means so much more. These are the first standalone shoes for tracking fitness.... Read more
The End of Wearables? The Naked 3D Fitness Tracker
Tech January 17, 2024
The brainchild of two fitness-minded engineers, The Naked 3D Fitness Tracker scans and weighs your whole body in 20 seconds, eliminating your brain’s biases, presenting you with raw data instead of perceptions. It will replace every tool you’ve been using to measure your body fat or mass, including the water... Read more
10 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Fitness Tracker
Tech January 16, 2024
People who wear fitness trackers are still considered early adopters. Many of the best are still in their first or second versions. When fitness trackers become invisible, when everyone from the aging adult population to little kids wear them, then we’ll be there. By then, wearables may not actually be worn.... Read more
Forget Smart Watches, Get Smart Skin
Tech January 16, 2024
As reported in Science Advances Tomoyuki Yokota and his colleagues from the Someya Group at the University of Tokyo have created the next generation of cybernetic skin, solving a major challenge previously holding them up. They’re calling their creation e-skin. E-skin flexes even crumples and works well in water and air.... Read more
10 Smart Watches for the Gym and Office
Tech January 14, 2024
Crossing from the weight room into the board room can prove problematic if you don’t want to hide your wrist. Most fitness trackers and watches look silly in a suit, especially if you work in a dress-to-impress environment. To help you, we pulled out the best smart watches on... Read more
Wearable Technology and The Future of Fitness
Tech January 2, 2024
The immediate future of wearables has started to reveal itself in the form of smarter clothing, smaller accessories, and possibly gesture-based interactions. The big question that remains to be answered is how these technologies will affect our relationships with fitness? We’re gonna jump ahead to the test answers to... Read more
Wearable technology is one of the newest and exciting type of technology out there today. With a variety of offerings out there with different uses, I decided to focus on perhaps the most popular in this article, the Apple Watch. With the watch being out for a good while,... Read more
If you’ve ever been the victim of cord snagging — where your headphone cord hangs on anything in the gym ripping said headphones from your ears — then you know true anguish. It’s not only physically painful, it’s distracting and sometimes embarrassing. Your gym-time doesn’t have to be like... Read more
“Google Glass will help fight the antisocial and “emasculating” habit of compulsive smartphone checking.” – Sergey Brin Sadly, for the company now called Alphabet, Google’s mad dash into wearables was not life-changing. Maybe that’s because there was no health or fitness trackers in Glass. Perhaps if Glass’ focal point were... Read more
Before, tracking your fitness level used to be done by the book, painstakingly requiring you to note down how much you consumed in a day, the amount of activity you underwent and changes in your weight and heart rate. While noting everything down was a great way of watching... Read more
When we came to the end of 2016, Body Hacks was more about wearable technology so we penned a piece on what would come in 2017. This writer looked through that blog recently. We were pretty close on a number of predictions. In the year that followed that blog,... Read more
Finally, there’s a better solution for men which matches the countless Kegal tools out there for women. (I know right, Men?) It’s yet only a dream, a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo based on the original version, but the VylyV (pronounced Vé-liv) 2.0 version, called Swift, is crushing its crowdfunding... Read more
Gifting Fitness Wearables to Kids
Tech October 31, 2023
Child obesity rates are as high as they have ever been—about one in five children is obese according to the CDC—with no sign of that number going down soon. The data gets worse as the children approach childhood, worse in some demographic populations. Childhood obesity is alarming, not... Read more
Ready or Not Legit Human Gene Editing is Here
Tech October 30, 2023
A group of scientists have used gene editing to cure humans of disease. The patient in question suffers from Hunter syndrome, a disorder affecting humans from childhood, where the body fails to produce an enzyme. The symptoms are many, but the treatment is weekly intravenous therapy. It’s a pain.... Read more
The State of Wearables and Integration
Tech October 30, 2023
As Under Armour (UA) recently canceled production their HealthBox suite of wearables it begs the question: What is the future for wearable tech integration? At one time, integration was all the future rage. It deserves to be said, there was also a time when we spent more time... Read more
The Fitbit company recently announced their new partnership with One Drop. The partnership will add diabetes management to their premium wearable, the Ionic. As companies like Fitbit and Apple chase more and more health metrics, we learn something about the state of transhumanism. Hacking the human experience for performance enhancement... Read more