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2015 Gift Guide: Fitness Wearables

2015 Gift Guide Fitness Wearables Sports Best

While activity trackers are great to make sure you removing around enough, they don’t do a very good job when it comes to sports. Over the past few years we have seen a sharp jump in devices specifically made for athletic endeavors. These devices are incredible because of the depth of metrics they provide. Users are able to gain an understanding of what they are doing right and what could be improved. But most of these devices are less a wearable and more of an accessory – the Zepp sensor attaches to your baseball bat, the Qlipp sensor attaches to your tennis racket, the Arccos system attaches to your golf clubs, and the Adidas Micoach Smart Ball is a sensor laden soccer ball. This year though, we finally started seeing wearable devices cover new ground in fitness and sports. Below we take a look at a few of our favorite fitness wearables from the past year.  

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Misfit Speedo Shine
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Misfit Partners With Speedo For Swimming Tracker

Misfit Speedo Shine

Misfit has announced a partnership with Speedo for a new swimming tracker. Well, it’s not totally new; the tracker is actually a variant of the aluminum Misfit Shine. Available in a raw aluminum color, the tracker retains the original Shine’s 50m waterproofing and 6 month battery life. For a $10 premium over the standard Shine, the Speedo version is able to track laps and swim distance in addition to the device’s standard activity tracking. You may recall, we recently took a look at the Misfit Flash (the Shine’s plastic sibling) and found it to be competent activity tracker but we were not in love with the app. So we were pleased to see that while the Speedo Shine will sync your swim and activity data to the Misfit app, you will also be able to use Speedo’s Speedo Fit swim tracking app. It will be interesting to see how Misfit’s new tracker compares to the upcoming and comparably priced MOOV Now. The MOOV Now allows you to wear two trackers to gain more detailed tracking information and is able to do things such as recognize your stroke and track your stroke rate / count.

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