The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application covering a smart wrist-mounted pedometer that can automatically determine its location on a user's body and ...

As we have stated many times before, this year’s CES is all about the wearables. Just to add to that, here are some new wearable tech pieces to throw into the mix of what’s already been announced so ...

There have been many wearables and quantified-health applications over the past few years, but most have steered clear of proclaiming themselves medical devices. Some of the rumors about the iWatch ...

Apple has been rumored for some time to be working on an "iWatch" featuring biometric sensors and integration with other iOS devices, and a recently published patent application (via AppleInsider) ...

A patent application granted to Apple and published today by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) suggests that Apple could still be planning to launch its much rumored ‘iWatch’ or ...

Pedometers are an old style fitness tracker, but now more people are sporting wearable fitness tracking devices on their wrist. Are they just a fashion trend, or do they really help motivate us to ...

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Are you more likely to sit less and exercise more if you've got a little device tracking you every step of the way? Quite a few people think so. But public health do-gooders bent on getting Americans ...

In the past, if you wanted to be sure to take 10,000 steps a day, you had to count them yourself. That’s because the decades-old mechanical pedometer never was very accurate and rarely worked in hills ...