Best Buy brings health tech to 40 U.S. stores
Best Buy announced today that 40 of its stores in the U.S. have begun offering personal health solutions devices like pedometers, Bluetooth-enabled weight scales and blood pressure monitors. “New...
View ArticleShorts: Epilepsy meds; ECG Patent; Mayo
BBC covers text message reminders for epilepsy patients: The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), has begun offering a new service to help patients remember to take their meds...
View ArticleHopSkipConnect: Everyone, everyday, every way
“Healthy behavior. Everyone. Everyday. Everyway.” That’s the ambitious mantra that the Center for Connected Health’s spinout, HopSkipConnect has adopted as its company’s mandate, according to CEO Rick...
View ArticleExercise to grow virtual gardens, fund real charities
Silicon Valley-based startup Striiv announced plans for its dedicated portable fitness device — of the same name — which encourages users to exercise with virtual worlds and real-world fund raising....
View ArticleReport: 16 million activity trackers, pedometers shipped in 2013
Sports and fitness features not only dominate the wearables market, but continue to drive adoption, according to a report from ABI Research. Activity tracking, which includes simple step counting as...
View ArticleTest before you invest: Camera rental startup now rents out health, fitness...
Camera rental startup Lumoid recently launched a health and fitness device rental service so that people can try out different wearables before deciding which one they want. Lumoid founder Aarthi...
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