It’s pretty. It feels good on the wrist. It comes from a LONG line of great Polar products. But is it any good? Polar’s M430 is a notable upgrade to Europe’s best-selling M400 from late 2014. As an upgraded product it certainly seems to have much less of the niggles present in other newly…
Some exciting news today from Polar concerning one aspect of their future in the wareables/sport/activity market in an interview with Polar UK MD Malcolm Douglas (partial transcript below). As many of us thought, Polar were rightly waiting to get the technology right before releasing their technology to us being super sensitive about the accuracy of…
MIO first came to more widespread prominence with their MIO Link optical wrist band. The Link is a great product for what it is intended; some people, however, also ‘needed’ a watch-like display and increased functionality. So the RECENT incarnation of the MIO Alpha, the MIO Alpha 2, came into being. Why am I reviewing an…
Actually some slightly old news shared here from adidas. I’ve been looking at optical HRMs and related devices recently as they seem to be shaking up the sports watches activity tracking (wearables) markets quite a bit. Generally it’s obvious that nearly everyone would prefer them IF they were sufficiently accurate. Coupled with that is the…
The Epson Pulsense PS-500 is a wrist worn activity tracker. It’s builds upon Epson’s own optical heart rate (HR) technology and their pedigree of watch-making through their ownership of Seiko. The genre of products that use wrist-worn optical technology mark the lead of the third wave of wrist-wearable activity tracking; moving on significantly from the…
I’ve tested a few sports heart rate monitors (HRM) recently and used many over the years. Here’s a quick post to say which I think is the best. Firstly I’ve only looked at these from the point of view of sports-usage, rather than medical accuracy & usage. You’ll find a lot of Polar HRMs used…
I’ll be having a look at the latest TICKR heart rate product soon. A very interesting product with smart bits inside. Similar, but probably better, than Garmin’s HRM-RUN. PRESS RELEASE INFO TICKR X records up to 16 hours of heart rate, calorie burn, and elapsed time, as well as capturing indoor cycling cadence (London –…
