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Adidas miCoach Pacer Review: Interactive Fitness for Casual Marathoners

For the past three weeks I've been testing out Adidas' miCoach Pacer, the newest entrant in the increasingly crowded field of interactive activity monitors. Personal training gadgets have been around for years, but the category has ...READ»

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Networked Body Smackdown: Fitbit vs. DirectLife

An uber-athlete, I'm not. But over the last year I have learned to balance long shifts hunched over a desk with regular time on my yoga mat and I begrudgingly took up running to whittle my waist. So nothing short of dread skipped down ...READ»

Test-Driving the Networked Body: 4 Takes on Fitbit Features

The sleek Fitbit tracks your movements 24/7 so you can process that data online and set your fitness and nutrition goals.READ»

Philips DirectLife Review: A Tamagotchi for Calorie Counters

My fitness regime just got a whole lot easier to manage. Or at least that's the promise implicit in Philips' DirectLife program. The idea seems simple enough: Carry around a small piece of plastic every day for the next 12 weeks, ...READ»

Test-Driving the Networked Body: Philips DirectLife

Philips DirectLife monitors your daily activity and attempts to translate it into a healthier lifestyle. Fast Company staffers take the $99 device, and its accompanying website, for a test-run. READ»