Examples Of Wearable Gadgets

These products are being utilized by people looking to monitor or learn to monitor their fitness and health goals. These wearable fitness tracking devices are compatible with most smart phones, pcs and Apple. These products are light, comfortable, with soft plastic straps on the bracelets and adjust to any wrist size. They are water resistant with similar features and come in a variety of colours; the data that is recorded can be retrieved or viewed at any time. The user can see a snapshot of their daily progress with the graphs, tools and charts provided. The Fitbit trackers are also compatible with several popular fitness apps such as Lose it, Run keeper, Map My Fitness, My Fitness Pal and others. Fitbit has a community of users with social and mobile tools, like Fitbit Challenges and food logging, to help everyone reach their health and fitness goals faster. (BloombergBusiness.com)

These features are wonderful to have as a guide, it is unknown how accurate the device measure heart rate and therefore calories, as the device measure the calories you've burned based on your heart rate throughout the day. There is a very high possibility that your heart rate is different from the one displayed on the screen, and is only used as a guide to where your heart rate should be during different

Starting in May, the Apple Watch has garnered much attention. The Apple Watch has the technology to track and store information about the activity of the wearer – it can show a person’s daily activities, such as the amount of time spent sitting, standing, or moving, and it can provide and display goals, suggestions, and incentives for increased activity. The Apple Watch can also collect workout data, such as a person’s heart rate, calories burned, and other exercise –related statistics. Like other i-phones or mobile

Fitbit is a great wearable device that helps people maintain their health, and it works great as a fitness tracker. “Perhaps you have an autoimmune disease and have been required by your doctor to increase your level of fitness for health reasons. Thankfully, Fitbit is here to help you stay fit and help you with exercise” (5). Before Fitbit, you had to put big wires on your wrist and then exercise to be able to monitor your heart rate or to know how many calories you burnt during the day or work out. But now the monitoring occurs with a small wearable wrist device.

FitBit is a company that creates watch like devises that monitor your heart rate, hours you’ve slept and steps you’ve taken and climbed. This wireless device is used to inform its wearer if their daily routine is cutting it to keep them living healthy.

Picture this in you head, a wristband any color from blue to yellow and wearing it wherever you go to benefit the body. Well that time is now, because in the early 2016 Oral Roberts University made it a requirement for all freshmen’s to wear Fitbit to help maintain health fitness and personal information. The university concludes it’s a physical education course that will notify what kind of activity the students will be doing in and out of the campus. By doing so, most undergrads are tracked by how much they eat, sleep, and walk over 10,000 steps. Thanks to this technology, more and more people are participating in this program to exercise right and being well fit. Some viewers believe that wearing the Fitbit is a significant thing to the campus, but there is a huge disadvantage of what it can do.

Eric and James were able to create a wearable technology that could track people’s fitness activities with minimal effort from the user. Currently, Fitbit’s mission statement is “To empower and inspire you to live a healthier, more active life. We design products that

Although personally, I believe Fitbit like yoga pants are more of a fashion accessory than life changing. In our generation, today, we have taken many things related to fitness and have made them a trend. There has been a good amount of research studies that have based their hypothesis on the Fitbit, or use the Fitbit in some compacity during their research. Some of the studies I looked at explained that the Fitbit tracks many aspects of your life, but it is not something to rely completely on. It would be more of a complimentary product than a center stage product. I wasn’t able to figure out who exactly funded these studies, but some were posted in the clinical journal of pain, and the journal of science and medicine in sports. I, myself, didn’t sense or see any forms of quackery. These devices are sold in store as well as online. The claims aren’t definite more motivational. On the website, I didn’t see any testimonials

Being fit means that you should be active, get plenty of rest and eating a healthy diet and the Fitbit One Wireless Activity can help you do all of this. When you are awake the Fitbit will track your distances,stairs climbed,calories burned and your steps. While you are sleeping at night it will measure what your sleep cycle is and see how you can sleep better,also can wake you up in the morning without waking your spouse. You'll be able to upload your stats with your computer via the internet or using your I-Phone. You'll be able to set goals and track your progress with charts and graphs,powered by your stats. You will stay connected with your friends for friendly competitions or for their support,you can stay motivated by earning badges. 24 hours a day you will be able to log into your food,work-outs and a lot more,bring greater fitness into your life- socially and seamlessly.

When compared to total caloric output from exercise, the feature can show you how you are doing calorie-wise and exercise-wise as you go through the day.

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Fitbit markets products to consumers that have desires to achieve goals, recognition, belonging, or greater self-actualization (Kotler & Keller, 2016). To foster a greater consumer psychological connection, Fitbit developed multiple products designed to offer greater utility and without being obtrusive (Kim & Shin, 2015). Likewise, the functional wearables allow personalization to reflect the identities and emotions of the wearers (Kim & Shin, 2015). As such, the favorable consumer perception of Fitbit and its associated products has placed the company as leaders of the personal wearable fitness industry pack (Time, 2014). In addition, Fitbit products produce greater involvement through tracking personal milestones. Moreover, Fitbit has excelled in creating physical stimuli with their products to track their health and a social stimulus with the ability to share fitness trends and achievements on social media. Likewise, users can use Fitbit products to on a greater psychological level to inspire friends and family to join group challenges. Additionally, Fitbit has modified consumer behavior and encouraged consumer learning. If desired by consumers, inactivity alarms reminder consumers to be active. When consumers reach fitness goals, consumers are awarded badges to reinforce positive behaviors. Even more, consumers use hedonic

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The wearable device is named JUNE. The only purpose of JUNE is too measure its users sun exposure and then remind the person to add more sunscreen before they get a sunburn, or to go inside. JUNE is paired with an iOS app that will also provide a forecast that measures the UV index forecast

The EmpoweRing is a new version of a fitness tracker worn on a finger. A few general benefits to this new invention of the tracker is that it is not a bulky item like those that go on your wrist and it creates a potential alternative customer segment. The EmpoweRing will have customers personalized information. It will “allow individuals to be better aware of themselves and possibly keep better track of possible ailments” (http://www.humavox.com/blog/wearable-technology-pros-cons/). It could also serve as a personal assistant when it comes to fitness as well. “Analyzed data and critical information will be at the user’s immediate disposal, simplifying daily functions dramatically and making us more productive and efficient than ever before” (http://www.humavox.com/blog/wearable-technology-pros-cons/).