One of the interesting things about Pebble's smartwatch strategy is its minimalism. Feature creep has no apparent part in the company's culture; they make watches and notification devices, and motion detectors seem to have been included in later models because they're dirt cheap and take hardly any power. Now, Pebble says they'll activate the motion trackers in something … [Read more...]
Basis Adds Health and Fit Ecosystem Support, and What That Means for Apple and Google
Unanimity among tech users is hard to come by, but a lot of athletes we know are big fans of the Basis Peak fitness tracker. A new software update now lets the Peak share its data with both the Apple Health and Google Fit ecosystems. The Peak is known for the comprehensiveness of the data it collects. By joining with those widely used ecosystems, Basis data can now be tied … [Read more...]
Google Ships Google Fit App
We wrote in August about Google's publishing an SDK to keep track of health and data; the company announced today that a Google Fit app is now available. Android only, of course, although there'll be a web interface that's not quite working as of this writing. The Google Fit app consolidates all your health tracking data into a single place associated with your e-mail … [Read more...]
Google Fit SDK is Now Available
This one goes out to the programmers: Google says a preview SDK for Google Fit is now available for download. The company announced Google Fit at its I/O clambake earlier this summer. It's the pre-fab plumbing that connects Android devices to sensors, smooths the recording of data on smart devices, and helps store of historical data. You could do it all without an SDK, but … [Read more...]
Forbes: Google Is Set to Dive Into the Health Data Market
Forbes has "multiple sources with knowledge of the company's plans" who say that Google will soon a health data aggregation service called Google Fit. Supposedly slated to launch later this month at the Google I/O conference, Google Fit is apparently a set of APIs that will link equipment like fitness trackers through the Google cloud. If it's as described, Google Fit would … [Read more...]