Engadget - Second chances are rare in the tech world. Unless you're one of the big boys -- say a Samsung or an Apple -- one spectacular failure is enough to doom a product line or even an entire company. Just ask Gizmondo, 3D Realms, Helio, Palm, Netscape, DivX, Sega... the list goes on and on. All it takes is one mistake and a hyped device or marquee company can end up as little more than a nostalgic Wikipedia entry. After last year's debacle with the Up, we thought Jawbone might give up on the fitness market entirely.
GamerFitnation’s Arif S. Kinchen chats with Under Armour’s Director of Performance, Paul Winsper, on how the company is taking their expertise in delivering fitness apparel to full involvement in fitness lifestyle.
AmongTech: When you set your Jawbone UP or Fitbit to its sleep mode, both devices will use their accelerometers to track your movements, including the speed and direction you’re moving. This is the main way they track your activity during the day and also how they tell when you’re sleeping. But how does it know you are sleeping? What does it measure?
These Fitness Trackers cannot provide a deep analysis of our sleeping patterns since they relies only on movement alone, agreed that they cannot be termed as accurate just yet. however they give their users a general idea about their sleeping patterns.
Techradar: Like love, sensors are all around us. The astronomic growth in smartphone uptake means that most of the people you know now carry around a device that is constantly monitoring movement, light, sound and location. To date, the data captured by these s
