Sports&Fitness

Polar enters activity tracker market More and more companies understand the potential of new innovative wearables for their portfolio. Fitness company Polar, known for it‘s...

Samsung unveiled their first smartwatch that comes with a lot of cool features. The Galaxy Gear has a 1.63- inch AMOLED touchscreen with 320...

Wearables are hot this summer and we are seeing great innovations happening all over the world. Over the last months many companies and inventors have brought their smartwatches to the market and crowdfunding platforms are constantly featuring new innovative approaches. In the last weeks alone, we have seen successful campaigns by Kreyos, a waterproof device including gesture recognition, or Hot Watch, which comes with a bio-mechanical solution enabling private calls amplified by the palm of your hand. Omate's True Watch even goes a step further by integrating 3G networks, allowing it to either replace your smartphone or accompany it.

Adequate exercise is crucial for the well-being but many people simply don’t find the time so it falls short. This is why activity trackers...

It‘s been another great month for the wearable technologies industry with lots of activities and innovations popping up. Pixie Scientific started an Indiegogo campaign, offering smart diapers that monitor children‘s health. Another great application of biochemistry in the wearable sector seeking funding is a patch that claims to be a non-toxic solution against the threat of malaria infections through mosquitoes. In July we’ve also seen two interesting new accelerators showing up and the Wearable Technologies Conference was a highlight for experts and innovators in the WT industry...

With about 300 attendees the Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco was fully booked – and a huge success. Two days of exciting speeches, panels,...