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
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
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
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
Technology I'm in this week's Business in Vancouver talking about cloud computing I’m quoted in this week’s Business in Vancouver, discussing cloud computing, along with my industry colleague Sarah Morton from Backbone Systems (a recent sponsor of the Vancouver Cloud Camp.) Apr 6-12, 2010 edition I’m glad Curt got my
Technology Vancouver's First Cloudcamp happens on March 13, 2010 in two more days Vancouver’s First Cloud Camp is in two more days! What will you do at Cloud Camp? You will learn how to take advantage of cloud computing to do things you could not do before, to save money, to be more flexible and
Technology Two curves: My view on the BC cleantech sector at the beginning of 2010 I was asked recently what I had learned from my informal survey of the local BC cleantech sector. This was my response and I was encouraged to share it more widely. I’d love your own thoughts on the following. Dear (Friend): You
Technology British Columbia's Cloud Computing Ecosystem Techvibes and I released “BC’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem – A Comprehensive List” today. Please leave comments, tell me what I missed, make suggestions, debate my definitions of cloud, or whatever else. More than anything, please come and join the conversation.
Technology City of Berkeley launches their Climate Action Plan using Vancouver-based Visible Strategies' "See-It". WOW. Check out the newly launched Climate Action Plan Indicators tool from the City of Berkeley that is based on Vancouver’s own Visible Strategies‘ “See-It” application. It allows all of the stakeholders to have a dashboard that lets them input
