What Your Watch Is Doing When It Reads Your Pulse
Take your watch off at night and look at the back of it. Two or three tiny green lights are still blinking in the dark. They have been doing that against your skin all day. That is how your watch โฆ
Tag: wearables
Why Your Step Count Never Matches Your Friend's
You and a friend walk the same lane, side by side. At the gate you compare wrists. The numbers are hundreds apart. One of you feels cheated and the other feels smug. Neither device is broken. They simply disagree about โฆ
The First Hour With a New Fitness Band or Watch
The box is open and the band is on your wrist. You want to start walking, not sit through setup screens. Give that first hour anyway. Almost every number you see for the next year rests on what you enter โฆ
Band or Smartwatch? How to Decide Before You Buy
You have decided to buy something for your wrist. Then forty options appear in the shopping app. They all promise the same things. The listing shouts about features you will never open. It stays quiet about the two or three โฆ
What a Fitness Band Can and Cannot Measure
Someone in your family wears a fitness band. It tells them they slept badly, or that they did not walk enough. Most of us take those numbers at face value. But a band does not measure most of what it โฆ