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Smart Buckle Turns Classic Or Contemporary Watch Into Fitness Tracker

Technology company Gooseberry has introduced a new fitness tracker called Smart Buckle that can replace traditional clasps on even Swiss luxury watches. For those who don’t want to wear fitness bands, the stainless steel Smart Buckle is made to fit more than 500 brands of watches that feature standard 20-millimeter leather, silicon, and fabric straps. […]

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TomTom Could Be Cutting Ties With Sports Wearables

TomTom is distancing itself from the sports wearable market that is dominated by competitors such as Apple, Fitbit and Garmin, citing weaker-than-expected sales. In the company’s most recent quarterly earnings report, TomTom, which makes the Spark3 smartwatch and Touch fitness tracker, reported a 20 percent year-over-year decline in consumer revenue, citing a decline in demand […]

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Velco’s Wink Bar Aims To Make Bikes Smart For Cyclists

Bicycles are wildly popular in Europe, and as of 2013 have begun outselling cars in many major European Union (EU) countries. Wink Bar is a product aiming to tap into this burgeoning market as the founders claim that they “are the first to integrate the technology of a smartphone into a handlebar.” It works by […]

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VKTRY Performance Insoles Engineered To Help Elite Athletes

“Every action has an equal and opposite reaction” is perhaps the most basic law of physics. But one is channeling those reactions to improve athletic performance with the slip of an insole into a shoe. VKTRY Performance Insoles produces a line of shoe inserts that harness and return the energy produced by pushing against the […]

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