Every year, CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) presents us with a treasure trove of innovative technologies, and that's no more true than in the fitness and wearables category. CES 2024 has been no different.
At last year's conference, we saw a screenless smartwatch, smart beds for athletes, and an at-home urine tester (a little gross, but potentially a useful health accessory).
This year (thankfully) we don't have any bathroom gadgets we want to highlight, but there are plenty of other fitness gadgets and wearables that we've loved learning more about, and we've even had time to test them out to see if they can live up to the hype. .
Here are some of the best wearables and fitness tech from CES 2024, including a glove that counteracts Parkinson's tremors, fitness headphones with a built-in AI trainer, and a smartwatch that we could see surviving anything.
Smart watches at CES 2024
There are usually a handful of smartwatches on display at CES, typically sleek, sophisticated-looking things that combine fitness tracking with a sleek electronic watch.
This is true for the recently announced Garmin Lily 2, which features a “small and modern” smartwatch design (weighing just 20.6g) and a hidden display that displays a patterned background until touched. It's also very useful with connected GPS (although it doesn't have built-in GPS, which would have been a big improvement for runners and cyclists over the original Garmin Lily), as well as five days of battery life, sleep scores, cycle tracking menstrual cycle and a pulse oximeter to monitor your blood oxygen levels. It's available now for $249.99/£249.99, with Australian pricing to be confirmed.
Garmin also launched the HRM-Fit heart rate monitor, which has been designed specifically for people who wear medium and high support sports bras. It offers the same real-time training information tracking in a package that should be more comfortable for sports bra wearers than traditional Garmin heart rate monitors.
If, instead, you want a smartwatch that looks like it would survive a nuclear explosion, there's the Casio G-Shock Rangeman GPR-H1000. It features heart rate monitoring, a pulse oximeter, built-in GPS, and Casio's triple sensor to measure altitude, compass bearing, and temperature. Casio's smartwatch can also give you sunrise and sunset times, and global tide data, though it comes at a price. When it launches on January 20, it will cost you $500/£449 (around AU$750).
Smart rings at CES 2024
Smart rings are becoming trendy: They're like fitness watches, but they pack all your health-tracking sensors into a ring that's much less bulky and distracting.
The Amazfit Helio 4g ring comes to claim Oura's crown at the top of our list of best smart rings with its promises of detailed sleep tracking and readiness scoring that could help you improve your running and cycling workouts. However, to access its premium analytics features, you'll need to pay $69.99 (approximately £75 / AU$105) per year.
In contrast, the first Evie smart ring for women offers a unique approach. Not only is the ring packed with useful sleep, blood oxygen, and heart health trackers, it also has an AI that can analyze this information, as well as records related to your menstrual cycle, mood, and activity levels to provide insights. about what has a positive impact on your health, such as noticing that the days when you log more steps than average are days when your mood is better.
It even has an open ring design to account for changes in women's finger sizes at different points in their menstrual cycle. Evie's smart ring will launch at the end of January, but only in the United States for $269.
Fitness headphones at CES 2024
Music can be a powerful training tool with powerful tunes that will help you get through a workout or distract you from how tired you feel during your long run. But Mojawa's new bone conduction headphones want to go further with an AI sports trainer that can apparently help you take your training further.
With vibration-based training guidance, Mojawa's HaptiFit Terra earbuds' AI “elevates workouts into full training sessions with automatically generated exercise plans.” No one knows what this will look like in practice, but when it launches in the coming months (the official release date is Q1 2024), we should find out.
The device is currently on pre-sale for $199.99/£239.99, slightly cheaper than the retail price of $299.99 (Australian and UK launch prices will be released in the future). In addition to AI, you'll get headphones with an IP68 waterproof rating and 32GB of built-in music storage controlled by pressure-sensitive haptic controls.
Sennheiser also introduced a new set of Momentum Sport headphones, with integrated fitness tracking and PPG heart rate sensor, as well as the full range of Polar's impressive fitness metrics. The sports headphones will go on sale on April 9 with a retail price of $329.95 / €329.99 / around AU$492.14.
Health wearables at CES 2024
The most innovative health technology presented at CES can be a game-changer for the people it helps. In the case of the GyroGlove, it helps restore some of their independence to people who suffer from Parkinson's.
Working to counteract her tremors, Roberta Wilson-Garrett, a person with Parkinson's, told us she can make a cup of tea, button up her shirt, and eat something using utensils thanks to the FDA-approved Class 1 glove. In a live demonstration , we saw a stark contrast between his ability to draw with and without a glove.
The GyroGlove is available to buy right now, although each hand will set you back $5,899 (around £4,600 / AU$8,800), but CES is also a chance to see the future of health tech, like the specs of the Vixion 01 .
This sci-fi visor is not another Apple Vision Pro competitor. They are glasses that can automatically correct your vision so that everything you are looking at is always in focus. The clear advantage is that you will only need to buy one pair of glasses for the rest of your life. If your vision changes, the Vixion 01 will adjust itself so you can continue to see with perfect clarity. The only downside is that we don't know when it will be released or how much it will cost at launch.
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