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Google announced today that it will begin transitioning Fitbit accounts to Google accounts this summer, with the transition mandatory by 2025.
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Sometimes we dig through the archives to see what kind of crazy hacks we can pull out of the depths of the world wide web and this one was worth …read more Continue reading This Fingernail Sticker Can Detect When You Stop Breathing
With all the attention given to heart rate monitoring and step counting, respiratory rate monitoring is often overlooked. Smartwatches are starting to incorporate respiratory rate monitoring more and more these …read more Continue reading Breathe Through Your Ears?
The rumors and leaks have been many, but today Google finally pulled back the curtain on its very first smartwatch. The Pixel Watch combines aspects of the Google universe with health and fitness smarts from fellow family member Fitbit for a best of bo… Continue reading Google finally launches its own WearOS smartwatch, the Pixel Watch
It’s been a while since Fitbit – which is now part of the Google universe – updated its heath-focused wearable lines, but that’s changed today with the launch of new versions of its Sense and Versa smartwatches, together with the Inspire fitness tracke… Continue reading Fitbit updates premium Sense smartwatch to second generation
We’ve seen plenty of hacks that analyze biometric signals as measures of athletic performance, but maybe not as many hacks that are trying to study behavior. Well, that’s exactly what …read more Continue reading Open Source Wearables for Infants
With the fitness wearable market exploding in popularity, especially among senior citizens keen to track heart health, a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health wondered whether these devices could be used to detect the earliest signs of dementia. A new study suggests that could be possible after finding distinct differences in daily movement patterns when comparing cognitively healthy older adults and Alzheimer’s patients.
Category: Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle
Tags: Alzheimer’s Disease, Dementia, Wearable, Fitbit, Brain, John Hopkins University
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a new Fitbit feature designed to continuously monitor a wearer’s heart rhythms for signs of atrial fibrillation. The roll-out is based on a massive study that last year reported the Fitbit algo… Continue reading FDA approves new Fitbit continuous heart rate monitoring algorithm
As if the war in Ukraine weren’t bad enough right here on Earth, it threatens knock-on effects that could be felt as far away as Mars. One victim of the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 6, 2022
Within certain populations, such as people with highly stressful jobs, it’s important to know if individuals may be developing depression. New research suggests that even if people don’t realize they’re becoming depressed, a simple Fitbit could warn th… Continue reading Fitbits may find use in predicting depression