fitness trackers

I loved the original Withings ScanWatch (8/10, WIRED recommends). It was a refined, elegant, health- and fitness-focused hybrid smartwatch with impressive stamina. The ScanWatch 2 retains…

Last year, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Ultra, a fitness wearable meant to compete with Garmin in the premium outdoor watch category. The Ultra didn’t quite meet the mark—for starters,…

In the months after giving birth to my son in March 2019, my Fitbit started recording some unusual heart rate readings. Pregnancy causes the resting heart rate to rise about 20 beats per…

Surprise, surprise, smartphone sales are down again. According to the tech analyst firm IDC, phone sales have declined by nearly 15 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2023. This…

In a world where unmanned spacecraft have landed on Mars and artificial intelligence can read your mind, one would think someone would have figured out a precise way to measure how much…

Smart scale pioneer Withings has been making Wi-Fi-connected scales for more than a decade. As the Body Comp name suggests, Withings’ latest scales provide a breakdown of your body…

One of the biggest pain points with fitness trackers is how each one has its own proprietary charger. It’s a serious inconvenience—if you forget a Lightning connector or a USB-C charger, you…

Garmin’s Forerunner line of GPS-enabled fitness trackers is bewilderingly complex. Also, the company updates Forerunner models so often even those of us who test them for a living sometimes…

I can’t be the only person who has this problem. When I’m snowboarding, I’m moving. I sit down to clip in, and flip myself over to stand up. I fall off kickers, unclip to hike back up and…

Outdoor activities such as trekking and hiking can be a calming experience away from noisy cities and one of the fun activities to stay fit. The best wearables can not only help track your…