You have your Apple Watch and/or activity tracker or sportwatch and now you want to know how to connect all those apps that are piling up on your watch and phone. Here is the beginning of a map that shows everything as follows: Heart rate sensors on the left (you can still attach them to an […] Read More⇒
Comstock’s Magazine in Sacramento has just published an article on 2015 being the year of the wearables. My good friend Sally Edwards and I are quoted in it. Sally is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, professional triathlete, speaker, and technologist. She is one of the pioneers in the Olympic sport of triathlon and also […] Read More⇒
At the beginning of January, I attended CES 2015 in Las Vegas to see what patterns were emerging in consumer technology, specifically in the arenas of health, fitness, wellness, and and consumer medical. It’s taken a month or so to digest what I saw and look for the larger patterns to emerge. Read More⇒
Here it is, the simplest decision tree I can build for choosing your wearable sleep, activity, fitness, or sport tracking device(s). I’ll modify it as I get more inputs. decide what you want to track, sleep or activity? (if both, follow both) if they match, then congrats, you only need one device; if they don’t, […] Read More⇒
I ordered my OMSignal shirt from the crowd-funding launch page back in May 2014. 8 months and 50 “exciting updates from the founders” later, I received it. Last week, I tested it on a hard workout at my gym and within about 10 minutes I was ready to call the experiment quits. I didn’t. I suffered […] Read More⇒
Today I’m comparing the new FitBit Surge HR fitness watch with the Garmin 920 XT sport watch. Read More⇒
Customer Maturity Model It’s not really possible to do good, quality market analysis in the wearable space (or perhaps any space) without taking into account both user-type (which really defines the use case) and also something I like to refer to as maturity level. Read More⇒