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Gatorade's smart water bottle uses sweatiness to gauge when you need to hydrate
The $70 Smart Gx Bottle and Sweat Patch connect to a smartphone app.
A little-known company made smart fitness clothing you might actually wear at the gym
Smart exercise clothing hasn’t quite had its moment. A little-known startup called Prevayl hopes to change that.
Gatorade made a sweat patch to track your perspiration
The composition of your sweat can tell you a lot about what your body needs to recover after a workout. The problem is, it takes a lot of effort for anything to register on Gatorade's Gx sweat patch.
Wondercise adds arm and leg sensors to better track your exercise form
Before Apple Fitness+ debuted late last year, Wondercise was one of the many companies offering on-demand fitness classes you could take at home. The company's edge, though, is its Live Motion Matching system that uses wearables like the Apple Watch and Garmin devices to track your form while you're working out. The new straps are add-ons that can be used with either the company's own fitness band or third-party wearables that connect to the service, including the Apple Watch.
The best fitness gadgets for the athlete in your life
Here's a list of the best fitness gear to gift this year, as chosen by Engadget editors.
Watch Samsung's CES 2020 keynote in under eight minutes
Between CES and the upcoming Unpacked, at which it'll reveal its next flagship mobile devices, Samsung has already set itself up for a jam-packed year. Even before its keynote, Samsung was having a busy CES, having revealed several TVs, laptops (including a 4K Chromebook) and a Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite in the leadup to the event. But it still had some things to showcase, including a spherical robot called Ballie Samsung suggests will be able to manage your smart home.
