Health and wellbeing
Nintendo is putting its sleep tracker to bed
Non wearable device will not be levelling up shut-eye anytime soonNintendo has decided to put the brakes on plans to...
The NHS is getting ready to trial Diabetes Digital Coach wearables in England
Patients in the West of England will be the first to try the techThe UK's National Health Service is getting...
Graphene’s next trick: Building artificial skin interfaces and health sensors
The super material could shake up the future of bionics and health trackingWonder material graphene could soon be used to...
This man's prosthetic arm is gesture controlled with a Myo armband
Does Johnny Matheny have the ultimate wearable?The Myo armband has been used to allow a man named Johnny Matheny to...
#Trending: Health platforms and wearables finally make sense
The steady rise of those alternative places to store your health and fitness dataFitness trackers and motion sensor-packing smartwatches have...
Pebble Health wants you to ditch your fitness tracker
Native activity and sleep tracking comes to Pebble Time smartwatches from todayPebble Health, its own activity and sleep tracking platform,...
Meet MIT's temperature sensing, medicine delivering Band-Aid of the future
This smart wound dressing is stretchy and stickyMIT has reinvented the plaster, or Band Aid, or whatever you call it....
Panic button: How wearable tech and VR are tackling the problem of panic attacks
Experiments in bringing anxiety apps and breathing techniques closer to the actionPanic attacks suck. They can make you feel like...
Why does health and fitness tracking lead to success for some and failure for others?
Knowledge is power but it's not enough to get you fit and healthyI recently spent two weeks tracking my calorie...
A beginner's guide to MyFitnessPal
Set goals, sync up your wearable and start tracking your, well, everythingThere are plenty of apps designed to make calorie...
Playbrush makes tooth brushing a game
Your kids will love this toothbrush, and so will your dentistGetting your child to develop a healthy teeth brushing routine...
Why the EU's health data plans could be bad news for the quantified self
If you track your health and lifestyle, you need to get interested in regulation statEuropeans might not be as crazy...
Wearables need to look beyond calories to really help us live better
There's more to healthy eating than calories in and outConsume less calories to lose weight and more to gain weight....
Medical record necklace Khushi Baby wins UNICEF's Wearables for Good challenge
The NFC device was the joint winner alongside wearable soap project SoaPenAn NFC necklace that stores children's immunisation records and...
Withings boss: The secret of new health tracking devices is in the data
The health tech company is about to release a slew of devices. It means businessWithings has had a quiet 2015...
Wearing a Mio Fuse could help Parkinson's patients reduce their symptoms
Mio has teamed up with Philips and digital health company BeneufitMio - the makers of wearables such as the Fuse...
The Quantified Woman: Fertility tracking and the future of our reproductive health
Taking control of fertility in the age of connected techOver the past few years, tracking our health, fitness and wellbeing...
Health o meter's NuYu Sleep System is on sale now
Use this temperature controlled mattress pad to get a good night's sleep Earlier this year, Health o meter announced an...
Crunching the calories: What I learned from two weeks with MyFitnessPal
What I found out about food tracking, wearable tech and my own motivation Often considered to be the be-all-and-end-all of...
The $38 wearable that could save the lives of millions of newborn babies a year
WAAA! is one of the finalists competing in UNICEF's Wearables for Good challengeSeventeen new Sustainable Development Goals were projected onto...