CES has changed considerably over the past 10-15 years. As the PC is a piece but no longer the center of the universe, many new technologies touching many industries are emerging and have taken over the buzz at the show. Computerized cars, robots, drones, smart homes, and fashionable music accessories are everywhere. There were even …
RESEARCH PAPER: CES 2014 Wearable & Fitness Tech Trends- Going Mainstream Read More »
I have seen a lot of articles mentioning that wearables will be the next big market. I fully agree that this market will experience tremendous growth in the coming years. However, many are predicting that their growth will come at the expense of replacing your smartphone. I fully disagree with this assertion. Instead, they will …
I wrote an article on Nov. 20th about the potential of a fitness wearables targeted at kids. Since then, I was introduced to a company named Sqord that has already built a compelling solution focused on this space. Sqord has great concept and has taken the idea of a kids wearable activity tracker much further …
Sqord Scores with Kids: New Wearable Helps Make Activity Fun Read More »
Wearable devices have a huge potential to create new innovative marketing platforms for the companies that sell them. A great example of this is the fitness wearable industry. Many might think that companies in this space see the revenue provided by these devices as huge growth opportunity especially with analysts predicting hundreds of millions of …
Fitness Wearables Provide Innovative Marketing Platform Read More »
Ok, I’ll admit this is a bit of an extreme statement and it was not meant to offend anyone. However, as a long time long-distance runner myself, I can fully attest that there are a number of runners who are not the most toned of athletes. Even having been around many runners training for marathons who would run …
I have written about fitness wearables and the benefit of Big Data analytics to help provide personalized coaching and advice. This is an important step and evolution for these devices – delivering digital services and personalized recommendations. Today, most of these insights are delivered through their connected apps and reviewed by the user post work-out …
