Sports bracelets and fitness trackers has become one of the main trends and desired gadget in 2014 and producers boldly positioned them as an indispensable attribute of modern humans. Person who are watching their health, lead an active lifestyle and making a huge contribution to self-improvement. We have collected for you the best gadgets, which is easier to achieve goals, keep in shape and set records. Professional watches for triathlon, precision Cardiosensor, activity monitors in the form of headphones and a comfortable and functional daily trackers, which can not be distinguished from expensive Swiss watches - all of them are worthy of selection and are ready to help you become a better place in the new year.
At first sight garmin Vivosmart - a traditional flagship fitness tracker. He hung with a variety of sensors and can monitor the user's heart rate and sleep phases, counting steps, distance and calories. In addition, it performs the function of smart hours to obtain not only the notification of the events, but also text messages and e-mails. Nevertheless, Garmin Vivosmart there is also a few features that set it apart from its competitors.
Firstly, the tracker works 7 days without recharging. Second, the manufacturer offers the option of buying the bracelet paired with a heart rate monitor badge, which will be especially important for athletes. In addition, Garmin Vivosmart can very intrusive to notify the owner about the lack of physical activity. When the device understands that you take too long been in a passive state, the usual bar appears on the display. It will not disappear until you will walk a certain distance, or you do not do the required minimum exercise.
The gadget is sold in two different sizes and trim levels. Price of Garmin Vivosmart $200 and $170 for the version with the heart rate monitor, and without it, respectively.
Basis Peak - This monitor your physical activity, the combination of fitness tracker and smart watches.
among the trumps gadget - before 4 days battery life, accurate optical sensors heartbeat, temperature and galvanic skin response, monochrome touchscreen display high contrast and low power consumption.
Thus, Peak is able to almost everything: counting steps, calories, heart rate, follow the sleep temperature the body and the owner of the progress of physical activity, as well as displaying a notification of incoming calls and messages.
Basis Peak works with iOS, and with the Android-smartphone and costs $200.
Jawbone UP3 - this is the best tracker of physical activity in the world.
That's what the company said Jawbone. And, frankly, it's hard not to agree with them. Inside tracker - precision sensors subsidiary BodyMedia. Among them, - a triaxial accelerometer, a body temperature sensor and the environment, galvanic a sensor for measuring the skin condition sensors for estimating the heart rate and respiratory rhythm.
UP3 monitors the quality of sleep, distinguishes between different kinds of sports, recommends the most effective workout, based solely on your personal physical indicators and targets that you have for yourself bet.
cost of gadget — $180And it works so far only with iOS-devices.
Withings Activite at first sight and can not be distinguished from expensive watches. They have the usual analog dial, high-quality leather strap, a nice minimalistic design, sapphire crystal, as in all the premium watch, and they are going to Switzerland. Anything that can give extraordinary possibilities Withings Activite - small additional scale and the absence of the usual winding head.
All the main chips are inside hours. With the Withings Activite can dive up to 50 meters, train and monitor the quality of their sleep. Additional scale will show you the progress of achieving the goal, and the time on the dial is set automatically.
Traditionally, there are hours and their own application, where you can view personalized recommendations, statistics, or to plan your workouts. Withings Activite operate on a normal button battery, a charge which is enough for the whole eight months of work. The cost of hours of $450.
In October this year, Garmin introduced the successor to the most popular hours of triathlon. 920XT took all the best from the latest developments in mobile Garmin hours, primarily on the Forerunner 620.
Novelty has a color screen, a daily activity tracker, Bluetooth Smart and Wi-Fi, the calculation time required for recovery, the metronome, the ability to create applications for the clock using Connect IQ, as well as the accounting exercise and leisure time in a swimming pool.
Price watch Forerunner 920XT It is on the same level, the flagship, as well as their characteristics. The gadget will cost you $450, With shipments have to wait even 3-5 weeks.
Using breast heartbeat sensor may not always be convenient, and the purchase of expensive smart watch with a similar function is not always justified. Aims to solve this problem mio Link - announced this year a simple heart monitor, which uses the same Mio Alpha optical sensor, but instead got screen ANT +, the smaller the size and half the price.
Among the advantages of Mio Link is to provide its accuracy, work in standalone mode, and paired with your smartphone or GPS-clock. But the battery life is not exactly a gadget trump. Without recharging it will serve all 7-8 hours. For comparison: the chest strap can be powered by standard batteries years, and replace it will not be difficult in almost any part of the globe. Cost Mio Link - $99.
Typically, the cost of decent fitness trackers starts at $ 100. If you find this is the first such purchase, say goodbye to such a sum is quite problematic. Whatever it was, in the company of Misfit revised approach to building activity and monitors the budget presented Flash - a beautiful and functional gadget with a price tag of $ 50.
Like his older brother, Shine, it allows you to dive to a depth of 30 meters without any consequences, following the dream, distinguishes between running, swimming, cycling and many other sports. Moreover, Flash beautiful and minimalistic, it is not equipped with a screen, but at the same time its front part is located a ring of LEDs - light performance of your daily requirement of loads, easily turning into clock.
le Chal - it is not just a fitness tracker and smart shoes but for the visually impaired.
The basic idea is quite simple. You dictate your smartphone where you need to go, and the software recognizes the voice and builds a path from the current location using the GPS sensor. On the way to the shoe insole well-read to vibrate in the left or right shoes, pointing to the need for rotation. The vibrations become more intense as you get closer to your destination.
a standard set of any activity tracker is provided for sports enthusiasts - counter overcome distance, number of steps taken and calories burned. standard price this gadget — $100But for people with impaired vision, and it is subsidized $50That makes modern technology at the same time affordable.
Are you sure you are drinking enough water each day? Studies show that the average person with moderate physical activity should drink 2-3 liters of water per day. In this case, 43% of Americans drink a total of four cups (and sometimes even less). To cope with this, the gadget is The Hug was created.
Dehydration is dangerous, which reduces both mental and physical activity. Banal lack of water can cause a variety of problems: dry skin, bad mood, and even kidney stones.
Hug - a kind of coach who is attached to the bottle, watching the water level in your body and sends push-notifications when you need a drink. Interestingly, the bracelet also can track your physical activity, for example, through the Fitbit and RunKeeper. On the basis of whether you have been intensive training or sedentary office work, the bracelet will adjust their advice. We have Hug and its mobile application, which contains statistics about the amount of water you drink.
The gadget is not yet sold in large quantities, the creators Hug offer to contact them directly.
It is impossible to improve what can not be measured, confident in the company of the Fitbit, which introduced this year are smart scales Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale. All information about your body weight, BMI and body fat percentage charts will be automatically synced to your account on the Fitbit Wi-Fi.
There you will be able to set goals and track long-term trends. By the way, the gadget stores up to eight people, and therefore, Aria Smart Scale will be a great help not only for you but also for all family members.
This is not just another wireless headphones. Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless - headset that combines more functions and a fitness tracker.
Music motivates and makes a variety of everyday training. According to statistics, about 80% of the trainees prefer to listen to music during exercise.
Headset Jabra Sport Pulse Wireless is designed to save you from having to carry multiple gadgets. Besides a good sound quality, it can offer you the functionality of a personal trainer that tells you when your heart rate reached the maximum level set mode, recalled the progress the implementation of the assigned tasks, or simply report the frequency data pulse. To do this, the gadget is equipped with a three-axis gyroscope and an optical heart rate sensor, which measures your heart rate in the inner ear.
In addition, Jabra Sort Pulse Wireless is fully protected from moisture, and has its own application Jabra Sport Life to view detailed statistics. The headset can work up to five hours of music playback, and its value is at a level $200.
It seems that the Polar created the ideal watch for running and triathlon.
In the world of sports GPS-clock has always existed a separate world - the world of Polar, with their standards and their supporters. But lately, Polar started moving in the right direction - the direction in which their work clocks with accessories from other manufacturers, Bluetooth side. One of the first steps in this direction began to watch Polar V800, which were announced at CES 2014 and in sale this spring.
A variety of settings; excellent build quality and materials; support multisport workouts with fast switching between profiles; work with interval training; advanced forecasts for recovery; counting strokes, swimming style definition and monitoring heart rate; Analysis of statistics and training within the service, or export them to other specialized services - all this makes Polar V800 an excellent choice for professional or amateur athletes who want to maximize the effectiveness of training.
Today, you can communicate with your smartphone, the machine will find for you the nearest sushi bar and a refrigerator can publish tweets. So why do so many ordinary vehicles like bicycle, stayed on the sidelines? In a world where almost any gadget has got the characteristics of a "smart" automobiles have learned to communicate with each other, and technology trends change every year, there was a Vanhawks Valour - the world's first truly smart bike.
As with all modern smart Soup, Valour is equipped with a plurality of sensors. He alone is able to consider your distance, time, calories burnt, and keep statistics of ups and downs. All this, combined with a light carbon frame makes this bike is not just a convenient everyday transportation, but also a great tool for training.
If you choose to use Valour as its primary transport, the creators have provided for you a few interesting features. First of all, they have worked on security. The bike is equipped with two sensors, blind spots, working in conjunction with a vibrating motor mounted in the grips. They are triggered when the distance to an object behind the walking is reduced to 3 meters. In addition, if you are planning a trip on unfamiliar terrain before, the developers propose to use the built-in navigation capabilities. To this end, on the steering wheel bicycle has six indicators - three on each side. Some give you notice of the approach of turning to the left, and the second, respectively, to the right.
In Valour has its own application, where you can view all the relevant information and statistics, plan your route and to report the disappearance of the bicycle community of owners of smart bike. Then, if the next will pass your bike, you will receive a notification with information about its location.
Vanhawks Valour cost you $1 250And the start of its sales is scheduled for April 2015.
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