Smartphone apps can be an insightful and motivational way of monitoring your daily exercise, sleep patterns and diet. Few apps combine these data points together, however, offering a holistic and truly useful way of measuring your overall health and well-being....
Ahhh, summer. Sun, sand, surf ... and accidents. From extreme weather to cuts and bruises, summertime brings a whole hoard of potential emergency situations. We've rounded up five of the top first aid apps you should have on hand. In case anything turns south, you're better off safe than sorry. SEE ALSO: 4 Ways to Protect Your Tech This Summer Did we miss any good first aid apps? Let us know what first aid apps you rely on.
FitStar, the San Francisco-based startup that just launched a workout app with Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez, just raised $4 million in a round led by Trinity Ventures to expand its line-up of fitness apps. Earlier investors like Google Ventures also participated. The round was put together a few months ago before the company launched its flagship app earlier this month. CEO Mike Maser…
After braving through the virtual push and shove of snagging the summer's most coveted festival tickets, it's time to slather up the sunscreen and head out to the crowd. We know you've endured the tedium of poring over lineups to create the perfect itinerary, so now's the time to make the most of your summer festival experience.
Working out is tough -- that's obvious. These social networks help make it a little more bearable.
The fitness tracking app RunKeeper has been updated to include new features that allow you to keep track of your own and your friends’ progress in the form of a Social Feed and a new Ranking option to see how well aspects of your run stack up against previous outings....
Fitstar, the Google Ventures and Floodgate-backed startup that’s aiming to disrupt Richard Simmons, is finally launching its home workout app with NFL player Tony Gonzalez. Mike Maser, a longtime Digg and AOL executive, came up with the idea after a long sojourn through New Zealand on his own. He thought about the workout video market and saw an opportunity to build a similar experience on…
For most of time medicine was a guessing game. Doctors, or witch doctors, or shaman would inspect a patient, stir a potion and hope it would work. With some notable exceptions, modern medicine isn't so different. The data collection—blood pressure, heart rate, weight, reflexes—is largely rudimentary. We're getting by, but technology can take us so much further. Even technology that fits in your pocket....
In 2009, when Apple’s App Store was just over a year old, an app popped up that seemed too good to be true. AcneApp claimed to treat zits by shining alternating red and blue light out of a user’s iPhone screen, and boasted that it was created by a board-certified dermatologist. The app was greeted with a flurry of mostly positive press coverage. "Anti-Acne App Available for the iPhone" trumpeted The New York Times headline. "iPhone App Claims to Treat Acne With Light," said ABC News. "Acne App Treats...
The latest edition of The Next Web Magazine is now live. This month we’re looking at fitness, sports and how the latest technological advancements are helping us to track and improve our personal health....
When you think about enjoying the great outdoors, embracing the natural world and soaking up all of the sun's vitamin D, technology doesn't really enter the picture, does it? But using tech and being outside don't have to be mutually exclusive. There are plenty of mobile apps to help you connect with nature, rather than keeping you glued to your virtual life.
You and your phone are bunking together. You're up all night texting, checking Facebook or playing Candy Crush. Whatever the dalliance, that phone is keeping you up past your bedtime, stealing hours of precious sleep. Then in the morning it taunts you with a blaring alarm. It's time that little device helped you get a better night's sleep, instead of zombifying your mornings. The generous geniuses at Hack College have proven once again that they have your best interests at heart.
HealthTap, a mobile health platform aimed at connecting people with doctors, has raised a $24 million Series B round of funding. It was led by Khosla Ventures and included participation by the company’s previous investors, Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures. With this new investment, HealthTap says it will undertake efforts to not only grow its team, but also its Web and mobile offerings....
Popular iOS fitness tracker RunKeeper was updated on Tuesday to add support for the Pebble smart watch. And Boingo's Wi-Finder now offers users the ability to subscribe to its Wi-Fi hotspots directly through an in-app purchase.
Almost a year to the day since RunKeeper first announced its partnership with smartwatch-maker Pebble, it has finally rolled out a Pebble-connected incarnation of its iOS and Android app to let runners and cyclists access their vital stats directly from their wrist....
For a little over a month, I've been getting off my subway one stop early and walking the rest of the way home. I've been playing soccer twice a week, and trying to drink eight glasses of water every day. I've been running more, eating better, but still not sleeping nearly enough....
Warm weather means shedding your layers, which ignites the great debate on tanning. On one hand, you're probably feeling pretty pasty from hibernating all winter. Studies have shown how dangerous tanning can be, and sunless tanners can be expensive and difficult to apply. What's a self conscious person to do? A swipe of your iPhone will give you the confidence boost in pictures with a little bronzer. Embrace your outer Casper and still get the sunkissed look in photos.
Pregnancy is a wonderful, crazy, exciting, scary and often confusing time in a woman's (and her partner's) life. Seeing that positive pregnancy-test result can be overwhelming, whether a couple has been trying to conceive or it's a total surprise. The moment that double pink line appears, the journey -- as well as the questions -- begin. Babymaking has been around long before there were iPhones, iPads and ultrasounds.
STake beautiful shots, drink responsibly, cover up bodily functions, and improve your phone. Sound like an unattainable amount of multitasking? Not really, if you have this round of the best iPhone apps of the week to assist you....
The past two years have seen an explosion in the ‘quantified self’ market for exercise-focused apps and gadgets, but the same can’t be said for the equally important area of nutrition, which is just as important to our health. The apps are out there, they just don’t seem to have garnered as much attention. Nutrino is a new service launching today that hopes to change that....
Today, Nutrino sees its official launch with a virtual nutritionist app for iOS that provides personalised meal recommendations based on a user’s profile, goals, habits and taste. It also includes a grocery list component, which at launch ties into major UK supermarket chains, in addition to support for Withings wireless scales to save on manual data entry.
Even as Nike recruits young talent to build an ecosystem around its fitness platform, the company isn't forgetting about existing products like the popular FuelBand. Today the FuelBand app for iOS was updated with two new features: friends and photo sharing. The first has been a long time coming; a simple friends list has been a glaring omission for a product that seeks to gamify healthy living, but now it's here and does about what you'd expect. From the app (similar functionality has already been...
Need some inspiration to get outdoors? Spotcycle, AllTrails and WalkTracker Pro are three iOS apps that will do that.
Staying true to a health or fitness regimen can be tough, but San Francisco-based Mango Health is looking to see whether an app can help with that. The seven-person startup just did a full launch of their app following a 16-week trial where they tracked whether regular notifications helped prescription drug takers keep on top of taking their medications every day. CEO Jason Oberfest, who came from…
Mango Health has launched its iOS app in a move that it hopes will help motivate people to better manage and improve their own health. Through the use of gamification techniques, the company hopes to ensure proper adherence to a physician’s instructions by making it easier, safer, and fun. In collaboration with its launch, Mango Health has also signed a deal with Target to participate in the app’s reward program....
