One such company is Fit Maternity, a maternity
fitness wear company that has high quality, high performance pregnancy exercise clothing and nursing products.
Not exact matches
Executives have talked about veering the
company toward
fitness - and health - oriented products, which might not be a bad idea given that it has all but
worn out its welcome with the core gaming audience and third - party developers.
The founder of the
company, Laurie Bagley, is a professional high - performance athlete - she climbed Everest in 2006 - and her vision is to provide the kind of
fitness wear for pregnant women that enhances their workouts and enables them to continue their regime during their pregnancies.
Another
company that has higher - end
fitness wear for maternity is Euphoria Maternity.
At a few
companies,
fitness data from smartwatches and
fitness bands
worn by employees is being used to prove they are staying physically active, which in turn is used to help lower corporate insurance rates.
The new
fitness tracker, the
company's third pass at a smartwatch you can
wear for days at a time, is a welcome update to its butt - ugly predecessor.
Less than one month after the watchmaker unveiled its first Android
Wear - powered smartwatches, Fossil has announced its plans to acquire
fitness tracker
company Misfit.
While
companies like Fossil and all of the properties underneath its umbrella have moved into making Android
Wear versions of their existing watch lines, there has been a growing trend of analog watches that simply bring features like notifications, vibration feedback, and
fitness tracking to the mix.
Wearables are the hottest new trend, as evinced by the release of three Galaxy Gear watches from Samsung and LG's Lifeband Touch
fitness band, and especially with the announcement of something from within Google, as well as other
companies, known to us as Android
Wear right now, to be released later this year or early next year.
With many big brands like Samsung, LG, Motorola and Asus have already announced their smartwatches, while some
companies like Garmin are introducing
fitness bands that can acts as a smartwatch available within an affordable price range, then, there is a good possibility that these non-Android
Wear smartwatches might create their own space in the wearable market in coming months.
Fitness company Polar recently introduced its first Android
Wear health tracker.
That's right, if you buy a 64 GB Moto X Pure Edition, which costs $ 399, the
company will give you a free Moto 360 Sport, its
fitness - focused Android
Wear watch.
The
company has Tizen - powered Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear S smartwatches, Gear Fit
fitness band and Android
Wear - based Gear Live smartwatch in its present lineup.
It's not too often you see a
company mess with stock Android
Wear, but in this case, Polar has created some of the most alluring
fitness tracking options available on a smartwatch today.
Latest to the
company's range of wearables, the round - faced watch promises some of the core functionality of its Android
Wear powered Huawei Watch line - up, though with the battery life you might associate with a
fitness band.
The
company also offers a few hardware products, including a scale and
fitness tracking devices, that compliment its
fitness apps that integrate with other third - party hardware including Android
Wear devices and other wearables.
The watchmaker, which recently announced its Android
Wear - based smartwatch, the Founder, will acquire the
fitness wearable tracker
company Misfit for $ 260 million, with the deal expected to close by the end of Fossil's 2015 fiscal year.
The watch pairs with the
company's cross-platform
fitness app, Huawei
Wear, which is fine — it syncs the basics, like steps taken, average beats per minute, and manually - inputted workouts — but lacks the social integration and overall intuitive sophistication of Fitbit.
It brings together
fitness - tracking and sleep - tracking into a simple yet stylish wrist -
worn design.It isn't as feature - rich as the
company's Charge 2 or Blaze, it doesn't have... Read more
Market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that Android
Wear was virtually non-existent among the top five wearable manufacturers in the fourth quarter of 2017 — even Chinese electronics
company Huawei got to fifth place primarily through its
fitness trackers — not its Android wristwear.
Until now,
fitness - focused smartwatches have come from
companies whose legacies were from the smartwatch side of things; the new Polar M600, an Android
Wear watch with GPS and an optical heart rate monitor, represents a new angle for the sports - centric gear maker.
From new devices running Android
Wear 2.0, to new
companies entering the wearable space completely, here are the best smartwatches and
fitness trackers of CES 2017.
Shares of Under Armour dropped 3.8 percent, before paring losses, after the active -
wear company informed users of its online
fitness and nutrition website of a data breach.