Items tagged with Google-Fit
Health monitoring is all the rage in the mobile market these days as evinced by giants such as Apple and Google announcing new technologies with HealthKit and Google Fit, respectively, and the growing pile of wearable devices coming to the fore. A new technology from a team at MIT could either take that trend to a whole new level--or obviate it. The CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) previously developed wireless technology that can track people through a wall by emitting a low-power signal that reflects back and reveals movement, and now they’ve improved its accuracy a great deal. It can detect subtle movements such as the rise and fall of a person’s...
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We probably don’t really need another health tracking platform or app at this point, but everyone is making them anyway. Most notably, Apple has its HealthKit (coming this fall with iOS 8) that should unlock all sorts of health- and fitness-tracking possibilities for developers, and Google is reportedly following suit. According to Forbes’ sources, Google will announce its own health-tracking platform called Google Fit at its I/O dev conference on June 25-26th. Android Wear UI Google Fit will aggregate data from multiple fitness trackers and other health apps using open APIs and instruction sets. In terms of fitness tracking, this is actually a rather brilliant strategy; there are...
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