In January 2016 Valencell filed patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against both Apple, Inc. and Fitbit, Inc. The patents in question were these 8,923,941 – Methods and apparatus for generating data output containing physiological and motion-related information 8,886,269 – Wearable light-guiding bands for…
I never expected a raft of new sports watches to be announced at CES 2019 but if I’d gone there I think I would have left disappointed with what was announced. Omron HeartGuide I’d already covered this last year. link to the5krunner.com It looks like an interesting medical-grade device for reading blood pressure on the…
I had an interesting chat recently with Valencell. There are no revelations as such but it was good to hear some of the directions the company and the wider market are heading down. In no particular order here are some of the things we discussed: Valencell estimated that optical HR sensors for sport are probably…
Suunto have registered their optical HR version of the SPARTAN at the FCC. Is the bump back? It is called the SUUNTO SPARTAN TRAINER Thank you TF for this link: https://fccid.io/document.php?id=3178841. And thank you for the comments below (some of you are more observant than me, changes made). Whilst the SPORT and ULTRA share the same…
It looks like HRV level of accuracy is nearly commercially possible for optical wearables with an announcement from Valencell, below. It has been demonstrated before at several shows but I would assume that association with medical-grade usage, even if only implied by the joint FDA/CTA axhibition, is a good thing. Jabra, who also embed Valencell…
The recently announced Suunto Spartan ULTRA and then the very recently announced Suunto Spartan SPORT look like great products. Perhaps even market-leading products in their targetted segment. Some great specs are on the Suunto site and, from a hardware perspective, it looks a superior bet to the Fenix 3, on paper at least. However. There…
