UPDATED 11:10 EDT / DECEMBER 18 2014

Can this hat replace your Fitbit?

Screen shot 2014-12-18 at 10.04.16 AMThis week’s Smart Health roundup features a hat that could replace your current activity tracker, a smart thermometer raising funds, and a luxurious partnership for wearable tech.

LifeBEAM smart hat

 

If you’re tired of wearing a bracelet to track your activities or you’re just more comfortable wearing a hat when you run or workout, then LifeBEAM’s smart hat may just be the right wearable gadget for you. The hat has an optical heart-rate sensor and a 3-axis accelerometer, and is weather-safe. For connectivity, this wearable gadget has ANT+ and Bluetooth low energy (BLE) for communication, a rechargeable 100mAh lithium polymer battery. As far as sizing goes, the LifeBEAM smart hat is equipped with an adjustable strap so one size fits all.

The LifeBEAM smart hat measures heart rate, cadence, steps, calories burned and send the data to your smartphone and be used by your favorite fitness app, plus it also works well with other fitness bands.

The hat costs $99 and it ships free in the U.S.

Kinsa smart thermometer raises $9.6M in funding

 

Kinsa, Inc., makers of the smart thermometer that connects to your smartphone, announced that it has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding funding from investors including the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

Inder Singh, founder and chief executive of Kinsa someday envision monetizing the data gathered by its smart thermometer by making that data available for brands that sell cold and flu medicine. The round of funding will be used to invest in marketing and brand awareness to scale the company.

Kinsa is a $29.99 smart thermometer that gives you fast and accurate temperature readings, plus the materials used for the device is toddler-approved so parents need not worry about the device causing any harm. It comes with a smartphone app that shows an animated clip to distract kids while taking their temperature. Kinsa is available on Amazon.com, Apple Stores, and CVS.

Luxottica and Intel partners for future of wearable tech

 

Luxottica Group, the mother company of luxury eyewear brands Burberry, Bulgari, Chanel, Coach, Armani, Miu Miu, Polo Ralph Lauren and Dolce & Gabbana, has announced an open-ended partnership with Intel, Corp. for the research and development of technologies that can be applied to different glasses produced by the brands mentioned above. As new technologies are developed, the contract will be negotiated iron out the details of each company’s ownership and investment.

Intel and Luxottica both have outstanding partnerships with Google, Intel makes the chips for Google Glass and Luxottica partnered with the search giant to design, develop, and distribute a new breed of Google Glass, but the two stated that this new partnership will not in any way compete with Google Glass.

“Google Glass is a specific product we are working on,” Luxottica chief executive Massimo Vian said. “With Intel, we are researching new possibilities that can be applied or offered to many brands.”


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