Health and wellbeing
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...
The Looncup tracks your periods and keeps everything down there tickety-boo
If the word menstruation makes you squeamish, this isn't for youPeriods. You should really let them take over your life...
Your doctor could soon be treating your virtual twin as a digital patient
UCL's Vanessa Diaz explains why medical avatars are the way forwardWearable health sensors already allow doctors to remotely monitor our...
74% of people in the UK would share wearable tech data with their GP
KPMG survey shows that people trust NHS with their data but not private health firmsThe UK's National Health Service plans...
The great calorie con: The truth about nutrition tracking and wearable tech
If you're keeping tabs on your calorie count with a wearable device then take heedThe popularity of paleo-style diets that...
Nuyu wellness system connects you with all of your daily activities
Track it all with this step counter, scale, and sleep monitorHealth o Meter has announced a wellness system, Nuyu, that...