Wyze has announced its first smart scale that can capture body metric data for your arms, legs, and torso individually using a retractable handle. Wyze’s smart scales have traditionally been budget-friendly alternatives to offerings from competitors like Withings, whose entry-level Body Smart scale now starts at $129.95. The new Ultra BodyScan is Wyze’s most expensive […]
For years – through its pandemic-fueled highs and its post-quarantine malaise – Peloton has held its earnings calls at a bright and bushy 8:30AM ET. Not yesterday. Instead, the company broke different news first thing in the morning: it issued yet another recall for 833,000 of its original Bike Plus units, before posting its Q1 […]
Peloton is recalling roughly 833,000 of its original Bike Plus machines, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The reason being that the seat post can break and detach during use, with Peloton receiving three reports of breakages and two reports of injuries resulting from falls. The affected Bike Plus units were sold between […]
Black Friday is still nearly a month off, but that hasn’t stopped the big-name retailers — specifically Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy — from discounting a slew of Fitbit devices in the run-up to the main event. Most of the company’s smartwatches and fitness trackers are either matching or exceeding their lowest price to date, and in […]
There are plenty of good smartwatches out there, and Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 is one of them. Right now, the 45mm / Wi-Fi model is available at Amazon, Walmart, and Target for $199.99 ($100 off), which is a new low price and $150 less than the Pixel Watch 4. In her review, our own […]
When you buy the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, you aren’t just getting a pair of smart glasses: you’re also getting Meta’s Neural Band, a small wristband that you use to control what’s on the glasses’ display. It’s an essential part of the product. But, if by some unfortunate circumstance, you need to buy a replacement […]
With Meta’s new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades – one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times. This in itself is nothing new. Introduced at the company’s recent Meta Connect event, […]
Fitbit’s new Gemini-powered health coach is debuting in preview tomorrow, as part of an entirely new app experience that was announced back in August. Premium subscribers in the US on Android will have access to it first as it starts rolling out, with plans to expand to iOS “later this year,” according to Taylor Helgren, […]
Alongside a powered footwear system called Project Amplify and new performance apparel with improved airflow, Nike yesterday debuted a new jacket allowing athletes to regulate their body temperature without having to add or remove layers of clothing. Leveraging the company’s longtime use of air bladders to improve the cushioning in its shoes, the Nike Therma-FIT […]
On Thursday, Nike announced Project Amplify, “the world’s first powered footwear system,” which it says isn’t intended for pros—in fact, quite the opposite. Much like e-bikes provide pedal assistance, Project Amplify uses a lightweight robotics system to boost running and walking speed. “The first-generation product, created alongside robotics partner Dephy, isn’t designed for competitive, faster […]