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It could happen to anyone of us: suddenly you got this inkling of an idea for a product that you think might just be pretty useful or even cool. Some …read more Continue reading The First Fitbit: Engineering and Industrial Design Lessons
Over the past years, fitness trackers have gone from fairly unobtrusive bands that relied mostly on smartphone apps for interaction to essentially being fashion statements and smart watches, with large …read more Continue reading Hacking The Xiaomi Mi Band 8 With Custom Firmware
The Fitbit Inspire 2 is impressively precise despite its bargain price tag on Amazon, and makes us feel like we’re in ‘Spy Kids’. Continue reading This VICE Editor Favorite Fitbit Is 19% Off for Prime Day
We rarely see teardowns this detailed. [txyzinfo] wanted to know what hardware was under the hood, and did an amazing Amazon Halo Teardown.
Sometime around the middle of 2020, Amazon jumped on to the health and fitness tracker space with the introduction of the Halo — a $100 device with …read more
When it was released back in 2012, the Basis B1 fitness tracker was in many ways ahead of its time. In fact, the early smartwatch was so impressive that Intel quickly snapped up the company and made it the cornerstone of their wearable division. Unfortunately a flaw in their next …read more
Continue reading Giving Recalled Fitness Trackers a Second Chance
The internet is full of self-proclaimed challenges, ranging from some absolutely pointless fads to well-intended tasks with an actual purpose. In times of TikTok, the latter is of course becoming rarer, as a quick, effortless jump on the bandwagon is just easier for raising your internet points. Cyclists on the …read more
Continue reading Climbing Everest One Hill At A Time – And Keeping Track Of It
With wearables still trying to solidify themselves in the consumer health space, there are a number of factors to consider to improve the reliability of such devices in monitoring biometrics. One of the most critical such parameters is the sampling rate. By careful selection of this figure, developers can minimize …read more
Continue reading Choosing the Optimal Sampling Rate for your DIY Heart Rate Monitor
Why are students faking their own kidnappings? What’s the story behind Garmin’s ransomware attack? And a genetic genealogy website suffers a hack or two.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #189: DNA cock-up, Garmin hack, and virtual kidnappings
Garmin’s online services are beginning to come back to life after it was hit badly by ransomware last week.
But did it pay a ransom to its attackers or not?
Continue reading Garmin staggers back online after ransomware attack
Garmin, the wearable tech company famous for its GPS fitness trackers and activity smartwatches, is suffering a global outage – and ransomware appears to be to blame.
Continue reading Garmin knocked out by ransomware attack