Technology Map of Apple Watch fitness apps and data You have your Apple Watch and/or activity tracker or sportwatch and now you want to know how to connect all those apps that are piling up on your watch
Technology Comstock Magazine article on wearables Comstock’s Magazine in Sacramento has just published an article on 2015 being the year of the wearables. My good friend Sally Edwards and I are quoted
Technology CES 2015 Report on Wearables At the beginning of January, I attended CES 2015 in Las Vegas to see what patterns were emerging in consumer technology, specifically in the arenas of health, fitness, wellness, and
Technology Wearable tech decision tree Here it is, the simplest decision tree I can build for choosing your wearable sleep, activity, fitness, or sport tracking device(s). I’ll modify it as I get more
Wearables OMSignal smart shirts make me doubt the smart clothing market I ordered my OMSignal shirt from the crowd-funding launch page back in May 2014. 8 months and 50 “exciting updates from the founders” later, I received it. Last week, I
Fitness Comparing FitBit SurgeHR and Garmin 920XT Today I’m comparing the new FitBit Surge HR fitness watch with the Garmin 920 XT sport watch. I ran them through two very different tests so that I
Product Management Wearable customer segmentation: Using maturity level for nuanced customer analysis Customer Maturity Model It’s not really possible to do good, quality market analysis in the wearable space (or perhaps any space) without taking into account both user-type (which
Fitness The best smartwatch or fitness band in Q1 2015 Here is a grid that will help you choose the best smartwatch or fitness band no matter what kind of athlete you are. I’ve included only the best
Product Review The Best Heart Rate Strap : Comparing Scosche Rhythm+, Mio Link, 4iiiii Viiiiiva, Wahoo KickrX I do a ton of sports tech testing. Some days it feels like I’m on a never-ending search to find the best heart rate strap. I’ve tested them
Sleep Comparing Sleep Trackers: Jawbone Up24, Basis Peak, S+ by ResMed, Sleeprate, Garmin 920XT, Fitbit In this video (at the bottom of this post), I compare sleep trackers to see which ones function best. THE CANDIDATES (and their sensors)Jawbone Up24 (3d accelerometer)Basis Peak
Fitness A weekend with Dan John and Chip Conrad at Mental Meat Heads 7 What a great weekend. I just returned from two days up in Sacramento at Agoge Ftness System’s “Mental Meat Heads 7” event. I had the opportunity to learn from
Technology How Apple Watch will create new winners and losers in the wearables ecosystem Apple released news about their new Apple Watch today and overall I have to say I’m fairly impressed. In the smart watch category, there are a couple of key
Market Map Market Map: Health and Sports Apps and Devices A first attempt to provide a simplified look at the devices and apps market by looking at the wireless protocols across the X (time) axis and depth / complexity of feature
Fitness Building a map of sensors, devices, apps, displays, protocols, agents, and end-points. (phew!) As many of you know, I’ve been looking a lot lately at the sport tech wearables space. It’s amazing how complicated it is. I was experimenting with a
Technology The traditional GPS sport watch ecosystem is too slow-moving and will be disrupted by the apps market I’ve been testing old world vs. new world lately in GPS watches vs. applications. It’s interesting to see the generation gaps. In short, the iPhone (mostly the iPhone
Technology Review of the Wearable Technologies Conference July 22/23 2013 The second-ever Wearable Technologies Conference hosted and run by Wearable Technologies AG (link) from Germany, was held here in San Francisco July 22/23. Attendees came from R&D
Technology A Tale of Five Garmins (310XT, 910XT, FR610, FR620, and Tactix) Garmin Running Watches/Sports & Fitness Trackers I’m always looking to see what’s happening in the Wearable Technology space at the same time as I’m looking for
Technology The Density and Complexity of the Quantified Tools Ecosystem is Increasing Rapidly Here is a first pass at capturing some of the major integration points (and directions) between the various sensors, mobile phone apps, watches, bands, scales, hardware vendor sites, and aggregator
Technology Fitness Device Comparison: Nike Fuel, Jawbone, Fitbit Flex, Basis B1, Fitbit Force, Misfit Shine, Polar Loop There are hundreds of reviews out there on the current and upcoming fitness bands. I’ve destroyed and/or lost many of them and have a high bar for what
Adventure Quantified Self: How I'm using QS tools and techniques to aid my training for civilian military style events On Mar 20 2013, I was invited to give a talk at Quantified Self Silicon Valley on how I was using Quantified Self tools and techniques to train for civilian
Fitness Great ride today. I LOVE the new highway for road-cycling. I think that the Sea to Sky Highway is going to become known as one of the most amazing road-bike rides in the world. The Whistler Granfondo is going to
Technology I'm in the June/July/August issue of Backbone Magazine talking about cleantech in Canada Backbone Magazine has just published a great overview of the cleantech sector in Canada that contains quotes from a number of notable people in the space including Kirk Washington (Yaletown
Fitness I just signed up for the Canadian Death Race on Aug 1. My body wants to nervously puke and poop all at the same time. Luckily I’m training with my friends who’ve done it before. They’ve assured me that it will be a complete suffer-fest. I think their words of reassurance were
Technology Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast this Friday April 23rd in Vancouver. Learn how to build fast-cycle lean startups. I’m super excited to be part of the crew (along with Bootup Entrepreneurial Society) bringing the Startup Lessons Learned conference to town via simulcast this Friday April 23rd. For
Vancouver's CO2 Impact gets good coverage at Care2.com for their gold standard multi-benefit carbon credits Disclosure: I’m an advisor of the CO2 Impact team. I’m quite excited about the work that Boyd Cohen and his wife Elizabeth Obendiente and the team are doing and happy to see that they’re getting the coverage they
