While
wearable fitness trackers such as the Fitbit and even several smartphone apps have become popular among health nuts, tech advisory firm Cambridge Consultants demonstrated a prototype designed specifically for basketball players.
Not exact matches
The company's core
wearable fitness trackers business has fallen sharply as it faces bigger names with deeper pockets,
such as Apple and Samsung, that are relatively new entries in the
wearable market but control a large and loyal customer base in electronics.
As the cost of
fitness trackers, smartwatches, and other healthcare
wearables —
such as chest strap heart rate monitors — decreases, these devices will become available to new audiences interested in monitoring their health.
Fitbit, which makes products
such as the Flex 2
fitness tracker and Blaze smartwatch, is looking for new ways to keep pace with chief rival Apple in the competitive
wearables market.
The transparent, flexible material could one day be used to create embedded
wearable electronics,
such as phones,
fitness trackers or MP3 players.
CIoT is aimed at end users, the Internet of things is used in products
such as smart home appliances,
wearable gadgets (
fitness trackers, smart clocks) and other smart devices.
The latest study from the gurus at Juniper Research has found that «the
wearables market has begun to shift away from wrist - based devices
such as smartwatches and
fitness trackers, with other device categories forecast to grow much faster».
Wearables: The total health,
fitness and sports tech market — including
fitness activity
trackers, other health and
fitness devices, hearables, over-the-counter hearing devices, smartwatches and, for the first time, sports tech (
such as a smart basketballs or baseball bats)-- is expected to reach sales of 49.3 million units in 2018 (four % increase) and earn US$ 6.4 billion (one % increase).