Fitness tech has evolved beyond activity trackers like the Apple Watch and Fitbit. Today, there are hundreds of streaming workout and wellness apps from brands like Nike, Equinox, and ClassPass to help track your exercises and reach your fitness goals There’s also been a boom in connected fitness equipment like Peloton, Mirror, and Tonal that are paving the way for on-demand workouts from the comfort of your home, with additional content like meditation, yoga, and mobility training to boost mind and body health.
Fossil makes the best of a messy Wear OS 3 transition, but it’s hard to shine when you keep getting dealt a bad hand.
Garmin’s getting the hang of what casual users like in a fitness watch. Now if it would only declutter its app.
These are good multisport watches that zero in on the basics but miss some popular features that would make them great.
Peloton’s long-awaited rower gets a lot right, but charging $3,200 is a baffling business choice for the struggling company.
There’s some merit to the idea behind this smart bottle and sweat patch combo, but the execution is sorely lacking.
It’s hard to justify a Fitbit when the Amazfit GTR 4 looks better, lasts longer, and has way more features than you’d expect.
Meta’s attempt to buy Within, the company behind the great VR workout app Supernatural, ran into an immediate FTC lawsuit seeking to block the deal because, well, Zuck keeps buying up everything in VR. Meta has always said the entire argument is bad because the VR market is so nascent, and now it’s filed to have the case thrown out.
We’ll see — but in the meantime you can listen to Within CEO Chris Milk talk about Supernatural on Decoder.
The Pixel Watch is a fair attempt at a first-gen smartwatch, but Google has quite a few growing pains to address
Gatorade is trying to make smart water bottles happen... again. Its new $70 Smart Gx Bottle and Sweat Patch (via Engadget) are supposed to tell when you’re sweaty and inform you it’s time to drink. Which, in theory, would sell more Gatorade. Of course it has an app and needs to be charged via a USB cable, too.
Putting aside the fact that I can usually tell when I’m sweaty and thirsty on my own without a $70 water bottle, this whole thing reminds me of the ill-fated Vessyl from 2014, a product formed of such hubris that it wasn’t even that funny when it failed miserably at its stated goal. We don’t need to do this again, folks.
Now if you’ll excuse me, my connected coffee mug says it’s time for a firmware update.
