The fitness wearable company Fitbit will begin selling its stock on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday at a price of $20 per share, a dollar more than the $17 – $19 range the company had previously announced.
Consequently, the San Francisco-based company will raise $732 million in the IPO, reports The New York Times. Had the share price been set at $19, the company would have made only $695 million.
Israeli medical experts have developed a wearable mobile monitor to keep a close watch on pregnant women and their fetuses as they go about their everyday lives.
The PregSense monitor has sensors woven into an elastic harness to provide data around the clock on the status of the fetus and the mother's health in the later stages of pregnancy.
A bluetooth-enabled device attached to the monitor collects and transmits data such as the mother and baby's heart rates to a smartphone and stores it on a secure cloud-based database accessible only to expectant mothers and their physicians.
While Foxconn may be best known as the manufacturing muscle behind blockbuster products like the iPhone, the Taiwanese company is teaming up with a French company to focus on the next wave of smart consumer devices.
Paris-based PIQ announced today that it had raised $5.5 million in a round of funding led by Foxconn. PIQ has designed a platform of sensors and data analytics that focus on sports equipment and performance.
PIQ was founded 18 months ago by Cédric Mangaud, a well-known French entrepreneur who sold his last company to HTC and spent several years as an executive at the company before striking out to form his latest venture.
Cada seis minutos se produce un caso de ictus en España, que mata a 40.000 españoles al año según la Federación Española de Ictus. A nivel global, se producen 15 millones de casos anuales, de los que 5 son fatales y otros 5 causan discapacidad permanente. Para evitarlo, la detección rápida de un posible ataque es fundamental para salvar vidas y disminuir las secuelas.
Every January, companies gather at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to reveal the best gadgets of the year. And every year in recent memory, fitness gadgets have dominated. This year is no exception, but aside from all the wonderful new trackers, we saw plenty of unique devices to help you reach a healthier self. Ahead, check out this year's best offerings, many of which won a CES Innovation Award and all of which are impressive.
The International Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas this week, is a vast celebration of every imaginable gadget and gizmo, from self-cleaning smartphone screens to self-driving cars. And while the event is not always a reliable guide (think 3-D TVs), it does reveal the industry’s best guess of what consumers might want next.
This coming year, wearable technology is expected to be big: companies at CES displayed every imaginable wearable gadget, designed for everything from baby monitoring to calmer meditation.
From augmented reality to fitness bands, 2014 saw investors aggressively backing wearable tech companies. In fact, the 10 largest wearable tech deals of the year took nearly $1B in funding.
In 2014, the hottest theme in mobile technology was the introduction of wearable gadgets that can track everything from seizures to how much sunlight you soak up. Device makers large and small attempted to make wearables that are both functional and fashionable.
