Why Intel Shouldn’t Get Into The Fitness-Tracker Business
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Intel is reportedly buying Basis, the maker of a health-oriented smartwatch, though the companies...
View ArticlePushing Fitness Tech To The Austin City Limits At SXSW
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.South By Southwest Interactive is an annual tech festival known for beer, brisket, and business deals...
View ArticleGoogle And Apple—Take My Fitness Data, Please!
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.This summer is shaping up to be a very healthy season—if you’re a maker of digital fitness apps. Both...
View ArticleWhat We’re Missing In Digital Fitness (And The People Who Will Find It)
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.I spent Sunday afternoon judging Hackfit SF, a weekend-long competition to come up with the best new...
View ArticleWork It, Windows: 5 Ways Microsoft Could Court Fitness-App Makers
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Right now, Apple, Google, and Samsung have the buzz in digital fitness. The technologies Microsoft is...
View ArticleArmour39: A Fitness Tracker That’s Smarter Than Most
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.I’ve long been fascinated by Armour39, an activity-tracking device made by Under Armour. I got a...
View ArticleTaking My Diet To The Next Level
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Quantifying your activity and nutrition, as I’ve done for years, can only take you so far. Sometimes...
View ArticleFitness Wearables Must Smarten Up Or Die—Just Ask Nike's Fuelband
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.The first age of wearable devices is coming to an end—and the next generation will either be...
View ArticleMyFitnessPal Takes Its Next Step
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Here comes the Stepocalypse.The digital-fitness world is currently obsessed with step-counting...
View ArticleOMsignal’s New Smart Shirt Shows The Challenge For Wearables
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.On days when I head out for a run or a workout—which is to say, most days—I strap on a heart-rate...
View ArticleForget Wearables—Get Ready For Earables
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.It seems fashionable for audiophiles to beat up on Beats, the music-accessories business by Dr. Dre...
View ArticleWhat If Our Refrigerators Get A Little Too Smart?
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.As a tubby teen, I distinctly remember reading The Science Fiction Weight Loss Book, an anthology of...
View ArticleIntel Inside Our Closets
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. And then there was the time when Intel CEO Brian Krzanich started unbuttoning his shirt on stage.The...
View ArticleApple Launches HealthKit To Share Vital Stats With Nike, Mayo Clinic
I sometimes sport as many as four wearable devices. And my Exercise With It folder on my iPhone goes on for four screens. So I'm a prime candidate for the new health software Apple just unveiled. “The...
View ArticleSorry, Apple's HealthKit Isn’t Going To Give You Six-Pack Abs
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.There’s a lot of enthusiasm about Apple’s newly announced HealthKit software, especially from the...
View ArticleWearables At Work Will Reshape The Office
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Salesforce, the maker of online tools for tracking customers and helping employees collaborate, is...
View ArticleWe Need An Uber For Healthcare
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Yes, it’s tiresome how every new startup describes itself as an “X, but for Y." When an early...
View ArticleAs Fitness Apps Explode, Google Fit Promises To Shape Them Up
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Fitness apps are hitting the big leagues, with downloads and usage soaring off the charts. As a...
View ArticleWhen Fitness Gadgets Declare Independence From Our Phones
A recent Apple commercial, "Strength," highlights all the ways you can use an iPhone with fitness apps and gadgets. At Google's I/O conference last month, the tech company unveiled Google Fit, a set of...
View ArticleTo Sleep, Perchance To Lose Weight
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. This week, it is presented by ComforPedic IQ.I have a new plan for improving my health and fitness:...
View ArticleApps Are Eating Wearables' Lunch
My Jawbone Up24 fitness band failed the other week during a session of hot yoga. I knew better than to take the water-sensitive device into the shower, but it didn't occur to me that the river of sweat...
View ArticleData Obesity: The Latest Threat To Your Digital Fitness
So many of our modern health problems stem from issues of abundance: fast food, car-friendly suburbs, and endless couch-borne entertainment.The cure for these, according to the quantified-self cult of...
View ArticleThe Runtastic Orbit Is A Fitness Tracker With All The Right Moves
I'll admit that all these wearables are starting to wear on me. Every time I roll up my sleeves, I roll my eyes.Yet I've found a new wearable device that may be a keeper, from an unexpected entrant....
View ArticleHow Wearables Become Buyables
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.My local RadioShack—yes, those are still around—just got a makeover as part of a nationwide...
View ArticleShoes On The Run: Why Your Fitness App Wants To Sell You Stuff
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.My Nike+ Running app is free, like most of the running apps I've tried. So how does Nike make...
View ArticleWhy FitStar Decided Its Workout Algorithm Needed To Shape Up
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.If Dave Grijalva were a drug dealer, I'd say he's getting high on his own supply.In fact, Grijalva...
View ArticleAhead Of The iWatch, Apple Has Given HealthKit A Workout
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.When Apple first unveiled HealthKit, its software for weaving together fitness apps, wearables, and...
View ArticleThe iCloud Hack Is Bad News For Apple's HealthKit
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.If we can't trust Apple with our photos, can we trust it with our medical data?See also: How Apple...
View ArticleThe New Apple Watch Leaves Fitness Trackers Looking Unhealthy
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Apple's new smartwatch, the simply named Apple Watch, aims to help everyone from couch potatoes to...
View ArticleWithout GPS, Apple's "Sport" Watch Is A Non-Starter
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.It's as if no one at Apple has ever gone jogging before. Launched to much fanfare this week,...
View ArticleApple's HealthKit Is Not Very Healthy
Apple's HealthKit, a system for storing and presenting health- and fitness-related data on iPhones, is not ready for prime time.On Wednesday, a wide range of developers, from giants like Weight...
View ArticleWhy You Can't Download Health And Fitness Apps From Apple's App Store
Fitness-app developers who expected a lift from Apple's release of iOS 8 and its new health-related features got a nasty surprise Wednesday.Apple held up new apps that used its HealthKit software to...
View ArticleHere Come Apple And Google In The Battle For Your Health
Earlier this year, both Apple and Google presented competing visions for how we'll use apps and wearables to gather data about our bodies and share it via our phones. Apple called its software...
View ArticleFitness-App Developers Are Growing Wary About HealthKit
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series in which ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.For the second time in two weeks, Apple has jerked fitness- and health-app developers—and...
View ArticleThe Basis Peak Puts Intel In The Arm Race
In a gritty intersection on Folsom Street, the famous thoroughfare of San Francisco's SoMa district, the past and future of wearables face off. On the south side, there's Mr. S Leather, which has...
View ArticleApple's Health App Is An Embarrassment
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.You know those super-awkward "before" shots with a fat guy holding a newspaper as he's about to start...
View ArticleFitbit Users Are Furious Over Its HealthKit Diss
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.In June, Apple executive Craig Federighi unveiled HealthKit, a set of software tools for sweeping...
View ArticleApple Yanks Fitbit—And Looks Like A Bully For Doing So
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.We're seeing an ugly side of Apple as it pushes deeper into health and fitness.Apple's retail stores...
View ArticleApple's Glucose Glitch Is Another Sour Note For HealthKit
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Another week, another Apple Health glitch.This time, it involves one of the most promising aspects of...
View ArticleGoogle Fit Has Its Own Ailments
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Apple has some competition in the digital-fitness space, now that Google has launched Google Fit, its...
View ArticleWhat's The Point Of Wearables?
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.One of the interesting things about writing ReadWriteBody, where I've chosen to focus on digital...
View ArticleCan We Hack Our Genes To Get Fit?
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Clinton "Cosmo" Mielke used to study black holes. At the same time, he likes to say, "I was becoming...
View ArticleGetting Fit Is A Race Against Time
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. This week, it is presented by Fitbit.Take more steps! Work out more! Get more sleep!That's the...
View ArticleA Yoga App Kicks MyFitnessPal Off The Top Of The Charts
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.If you obsessively track App Annie's rankings for top health and fitness apps like I do—okay, I'm...
View ArticleUnder Armour's New "Record" App: A Potential Social Revolution In Fitness
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Under Armour, the fitness-apparel maker, has made its first big move since buying MapMyFitness 14...
View ArticleFitness Trackers Are Still Waiting For Their "iPod Moment"
The fitness-tracker market is exploding. There are a ton of new devices on the market to track steps, sleep, heart rate, and other bodily metrics, many unveiled earlier this month at the Consumer...
View ArticleUnder Armour Buys MyFitnessPal And Endomondo In A Big Bet On Fitness Data
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Under Armour is doubling down on a big bet it made on fitness apps a year and a half ago.On...
View ArticleHow MyFitnessPal Became The King Of Diet Trackers
MyFitnessPal recently sold to Under Armour for $475 million. In this exclusive excerpt from ReadWrite founder Richard MacManus's new book, Trackers: How Technology Is Helping Us Monitor & Improve...
View ArticleFitbit Bulks Up With Purchase Of Fitness Trainer App FitStar
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.Even having a hit app isn't enough to stay independent in the digital-fitness business. The latest...
View ArticleFitness-App Consolidation Continues As Adidas Buys Runtastic
Runtastic is the latest indie fitness-app maker to fall under the control of a larger player: Adidas has bought the Austrian startup for 220 million euros (the equivalent of US $239 million). The deal...
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