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IF YOU THINK your FitBit doesn’t do enough to make it useful, the next generation of fitness trackers could change that.
Samsung has decided to take on the task with a new bio-processor that can track and measure different attributes like body fat, skeletal muscle mass, heart rate, heart rhythm, skin temperature and stress level (the amount of sweat you produce).
The company has started mass producing the chip and describes it as an “all-in-one” addition to fitness trackers.
The majority of fitness trackers and smartwatches track heart rate and steps while some claim to track a user’s sleep pattern. Despite their limitations, they continue to be popular with Fitbit and Jawbone leading the pack; Fitbit’s own app topped the App Store chart on Christmas Day.
Samsung claims that the new chip’s improved tracking ability and small size will lead to better uses for wearables, and may lead to new designs for existing devices.
While the processor will be included with its own devices, it will be available to other companies interested in developing their own fitness devices.
The company already licences out parts to other competitors like chips for the latest iPhone 6s and 6s Plus so it’s likely it will take a similar approach with its new chip.
The first devices to include the processor will be made available within the first half of 2016.
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You want to lose weight and tone up?
Simple, eat less and exercise more and stop looking for crap like this to help you
Eat high nutrient real food and exercise with a mentality of improving technique. eating less & exercising more doesn’t cut it if the food you are eating less of is useless
If you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight it’s that simple
Don’t need to go throwing In techniques and the like, they are just excuses which draw people into silly diets and buy silly products
Well said Brendan, all this fitness technology is aimed at allready obese or overweight persons, they are not aimed at your average healthy fit individual who utilizes nutrition %70 and exercise %30 to obtain overall lifelong fitness. This is coming from a qualified personal trainer! Good look to you, if you plan to get fit, healthy and happy for the new year!
All this fitness tracking stuff just seems like faddish gimmickery.
NY resolutions are for the fools, fitness goals are best aimed for in good weather so as to avoid dissapointment
Great, let me know when the good weather comes and I’ll be ready to get fit. Get out there today and don’t worry about the weather.
“A bio-processor that can track and measure different attributes like body fat, skeletal muscle mass, heart rate, heart rhythm, skin temperature and stress level”
I’m just staying for one more with the lads darling will break the bio processor
I walk 3 miles a day no matter what the weather, I have to as I’m type 1 diabetic and have to follow healthy eating plan and exercise. Love it though as I’m now in the best shape of my life at 43. Don’t see many people put walking BUT come 1st of January, there’ll be a traffic jam of people stomping the roads. ….come Feb, it’ll be back to normal unfortunately.
In my opinion diet plays a far great role in fat loss than exercise.
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