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    Healbe GoBe Review: Can a Fitness Band Really Track your Calorie Intake?

    A simple activity-tracking wearable just doesn’t cut it. Unless, perhaps, it’s cool-looking, or dirt cheap. Being able to keep tabs on how active you’ve been (or not) is certainly helpful; the problem is it’s only one part of the picture. A ...
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    Diagnosing Disease with a Snapshot

    Not long ago, a geneticist in Delaware was doing what geneticists do, trying to arrive at a diagnosis for a patient with undiagnosed disease. The physician, Karen Gripp, chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at A.I. duPont Hospital for ...
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    Carry your Gym with you

    This seemingly unsuspecting boomerang-ish piece of wood and metal is in fact a full fledged gym in itself! The Yoak (wonder why it’s named so) is an incredibly versatile arc shaped tool that allows you to perform your entire workout ...
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    Astronauts to Trial Healthcare Wearables in Space

    A ‘smartSHIRT’ DESIGNED to remotely monitor the wearer’s health via a series of sensors is set to be tested in space in an upcoming mission by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). It has signed a $2.4m deal with Carré Technologies ...
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    Intel Fashions Stress-Sensing Glasses and a Belt-Based Projector

    Intel has teamed up with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan to create an outfit with a pair of stress-sensingGLASSES, and a belt that projects that data onto a wall(Credit: Intel Corporation) From 3D-printed high-heels to Wi-Fi jackets, and watches packed with enough ...
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    Intel and Oakley Pack a Fitness Tracker and AI Coach into a Pair of Shades

    As useful as they are, wearable fitness trackers aren’t usually the height of fashion themselves, with many devices blending away out of sight on your wrist or ankle. Now Intel and Luxottica have teamed up to put a fitness tracker ...
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    Chic Recycled Clothing

    Fashion is often pointed out as being one of the most wasteful industries out there, so ‘I AM NOT A VIRGIN’ creates recycled clothes to help offer a different approach. Creating high-quality garments made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), ‘I ...
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    Styr Labs Uses Fitness-Tracking Data to Provide Nutritional Advice

    Dietary supplements have always been a murky area. While there are apps that allow you to track what you eat, there’s not much out there in terms of nutritional feedback. A startup out of Scottsdale, Arizona is looking to change ...
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    Listening to You Speak Could Help Reveal Stress, Depression, And Even Heart Conditions

    Can the same technology which analyzes emotion in voices also be used to identify health-related issues, ranging from stress and depression to heart conditions? That’s the question being asked as part of a collaboration between voice-driven emotions analytics company Beyond Verbal ...