Heart Rate Monitor

Exactly 10 years ago, Omate launched a funding campaign on Kickstarter for a standalone smartwatch called the TrueSmart. Now the company has launched the second generation, this time as a Wearable-as-a-Service platform for seniors and lone workers.

While there are some "smart" headphones that can perform multiple functions, the vast majority still just amplify music. A new system, however, could give those "dumb" headphones capabilities such as heart rate monitoring and gesture recognition.

There are many electric-assist bikes available, and most will offer the rider different levels of assist, selectable from the handlebar. But the Greyp G6 unveiled in Zagreb, Croatia, on Friday can monitor a rider's heart rate and adjust the level of assistance it provides accordingly.

The Motiv Ring lets you track steps, activity, heart rate, and sleep with a ring rather than a smartwatch or a wristband, and it's now compatible with Android phones as well as iPhones. Does it offer a better tracking experience than more conventional wearables? Here's our verdict.

​There are already plenty of smartwatches that allow fitness-conscious users to monitor their heart rate. The iBeat Heart Watch also tracks heart rates, but it can additionally summon help if it detects that something is wrong.

​​The health-tracking potential of the Apple Watch might just be one of the device's stronger selling points. These capabilities are now set to expand with the US Food and Drug Administration today clearing the first medical device for the Apple Watch.

A new study from Stanford into the accuracy of seven popular wrist-based fitness trackers offers both good and bad news for wearers, showing heart rate data to be relatively accurate, but energy expenditure estimates to be way off.

The Moov HR Sweat is a smart personal trainer which uses heart-rate monitoring to give you a high intensity workout that will push you to your limits. We recently got the chance to try the sweatband-worn device ahead of its release, read on to see how we got on.

​Although some smartwatches claim to be health-focused, a team based in the United Kingdom has set out to one-up them with the Cronovo​. Capable of tracking stress levels, metabolism and heart rate, the company says its watch is the world's smallest EKG. ​

One recently published study indicates that wrist-based heart rate monitoring may not be as reliable as hoped. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic’s Heart and Vascular Institute found that four leading devices were of inconsistent accuracy, and that accuracy drops during workouts.

If you want a fitness tracker that's more of a workout companion than an around-the-clock accessory, Moov is one company that's looking beyond the wrist. It's just announced the Moov HR, a head-mounted AI fitness coach and heart rate monitor.

​​Although they're generally safer than guns, conducted electrical weapons still have been implicated in deaths by cardiac arrest. In an effort to keep that from happening, researchers recently altered a CEW so that it could both deliver an electrical charge, and monitor the victim's heart rate.​