CES 2016: The future of smart fitness tech - TechRepublic

CES 2016: The future of smart fitness tech

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    Sensoria biometric suit

    The Sensoria \r\nbiometric suit contains sensors that allow data to be seen through smart\r\n sports eyewear or on a smartwatch. Users can get real-time feedback \r\nfrom biometrics such as body temperature, stress and fatigue levels, \r\nmuscle activation and center of balance.

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    Sensoria Walk socks

    Pair the Sensoria Fitness socks to the\r\nSensoria mobile app. A virtual coach within the app \r\ncontinuously monitors running form and provides real-time \r\nfeedback through audio and video cues during your run.

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  • Sensoria fitness shirt

    The Sensoria fitness smart T-shirt provides consistent heart rate \r\nmonitoring without a strap needed. It can be \r\nused with most Bluetooth smart heart rate monitors with standard snaps. \r\nPair the HRM with the Sensoria  mobile app to track your \r\nfitness activity.

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  • Gymwatch

    The Gymwatch tracks your fitness movements as you wear it on your arm or leg and delivers the results via a smartwatch app.

    It tells you about your form and counts your reps while working out, and if you’re doing it right or wrong.

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    Xensr 3D sports visualizer

    The Xensr 3D sports visualizer will track speed, jump height, G-Force, air \r\ntime and more with built-in GPS that syncs to a mobile device via Bluetooth.

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    Chisel Skulpt

    The Chisel Skulpt measures 24 different muscles on your body, providing the fat percentage and a rating of the muscle’s fitness for each muscle.

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  • Digitsole

    The Digitsole smartshoe features built-in foot warmers, wireless charging, a projector light, step-tracking technology and shock detection.

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    Wilson X Connected Football

    The Wilson X Connected Football includes a built-in sensor to \r\nmeasure speed, distance and the spiral efficiency of each throw. The data is synced to a mobile app.

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  • Enko Boost

    The Enko Boost running shoe has mechanical cushioning and shock absorption to minimize injuries.

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  • OMbra

    The OMbra from OMSignal has smart technology built in to gather data from distance covered, cadence, pace, estimated calories burned and heart rate.

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  • Under Armour connected shoe

    The UA connected shoe uses a chip to calculate distance, pace and cadence.\r\n It will also learn your stride length so that it can better judge \r\ndistances without the use of GPS.

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  • Under Armour HealthBox

    Th UA HealthBox is a connected fitness systems and retails for $400. It includes a Bluetooth-enabled scale, \r\na heart rate montitor and a wristband to track steps, distance, \r\nresting heart rate and sleep.

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    AfterShokz Trekz Titanium bone conduction headphones

    The AfterShokz Trekz Titanium bone conduction headphones sit on the cheekbone next to the ear, rather than inside the ear, to allow the wearer to hear ambient noise as well as the sounds from the headphones. This makes them safer for runners, cyclists and pedestrians.

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    Garmin Varia Vision

    The Garmin Varia Vision is for cyclists, and clips onto your glasses to provide a mini display to show directions, speed and other informaiton. There’s also an alert for calls, texts and emails.

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    LifeFuel smart nutrition bottle

    The LifeFuel smart nutrition bottle is an iPhone-connected water bottle that can dispense both supplements and flavors while tracking water and supplement intake.

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  • Lumenus LED jacket

    The Lumenus jacket makes a pedestrian, \r\nrunner or cyclist more visible to oncoming traffic. The clothing \r\ncontains integrated Bluetooth to connect with an app to activate turn \r\nsignals and brake lights for the user once they’ve inputted their \r\ndestination.

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    Lumenus LED backpack, vest and light jacket

    The Lumenus line of clothing and accessories embedded with LED lights make a pedestrian, \r\nrunner or cyclist more visible to oncoming traffic. The items\r\ncontain integrated Bluetooth to connect with an app to activate turn \r\nsignals and brake lights for the user once they’ve inputted their \r\ndestination.

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    Lumenus workout pants

    These Lumenus workout pants contain LED lights to make the user more visible. The clothing \r\ncontains integrated Bluetooth.

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    FitGuard mouthguard

    The FitGuard is a mouthguard from Force Impact Technologies that’s designed to measure the impact of a hit taken while playing a sport and track the number of hits. It works with an app to monitor the user for any head injuries.

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  • Hexoskin smart biometric shirt

    The Hexoskin smart biometric shirt offers Bluetooth to work with fitness apps such as Strava and RunKeeper or its own companion app. It provides data on sleep, physical training as well as cardiac, breathing and movement sensors to measure heart rate, breathing rate, among other tracking measurements.

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Teena Maddox

Teena Maddox is a VP at Brodeur Partners. She is a former Associate Managing Editor at TechRepublic. Teena's lifelong journalism career has included writing on staff for publications including People magazine, W magazine and Women's Wear Daily.