misfit wearables

Misfit updates its Vapor smartwatch with standalone GPS and a smaller size

Announced last year at CES, the original Vapor found Misfit finally going full smartwatch. The Fossil-owned wearable company announced this morning that it’s going back to the well, with the simply

Better Health By Design: Making Healthcare Tech More Usable, Understandable And Profitable

The interplay of health and design isn’t new. In 1857, Nurse (and Data Scientist) Florence Nightingale used design principles to illustrate the casualties of soldiers in the Crimean War and changed

Misfit Wearables Launches The Flash, A More Affordable Fitness And Sleep Tracker

Misfit Wearables, which has sold roughly 600,000 metallic, quarter-sized activity trackers or Shines, has launched a more affordable fitness wearable called the Flash. The company, which was co-founde

Misfit Debuts Two New Colors And Bloom, A Sleek New Necklace For Its Shine Activity Tracker

As wearables continue to evolve, we're seeing the blend of wearables and jewelry, and the importance of form factor in adoption. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.misfitwearables.com/">Misfit,</a> t

The Not-So-Secret Language Of The Misfit Shine

Here's a random tidbit about the <a target="_blank" href="http://store.misfitwearables.com/products/misfit-shine">Misfit Shine</a>, the activity tracking device from <a target="_blank" href="http://mi

Misfit Raises $15.2M From Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures For Its Activity Tracker, The Shine

Misfit Wearables, the hardware startup that built a sleek activity tracker called the Shine, just picked up $15.2 million from Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures in a big, new growth round. Jason W

Misfit Wearables Finally Launches An Android App For Its Activity Tracker, The Shine

Misfit Wearables, the Khosla and Founders Fund-backed startup that builds elegant activity tracking hardware, is patching up a weak spot with the launch of its new Android app today. It was something

Week One With The Misfit Shine — A Hands-On Review From Someone Who Hates Most Activity Trackers

Fitness is a very personal thing, so when it comes to the ever-expanding market of activity tracking gadgets, it always helps to hear what exactly different people love or hate about a given device wh

A Week With The Shine, A Beautifully Designed Smart Activity Tracker Made From Japanese Metal

Fitbits. FuelBands. UPs. The market for smart, connected activity trackers continues to get ever-more crowded. And yet, there’s not an obvious winner yet. Misfit Wearables’ Shine is a new

Misfit Wearables Drops Android Support For Its Shine Activity Tracker Ahead Of Summer Launch

Heads up, Android fans. If you took the plunge and backed the rather sleek <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/shine-misfit-wearables/">Shine wearable activity tracker</a> from <a target="_blan

Indiegogo Founder Slava Rubin Says Crowdfunding Takes Down The “Gatekeepers”

Slava Rubin knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Founded in 2008, his company, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/IndieGogo">IndieGogo</a> is a major funding powerhouse, bringing together such di

Misfit Wearables, The Startup From Agamatrix’s Founders, Former Apple CEO John Sculley, Raises $7.6M

Google Glass isn't the only game in town. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.misfitwearables.com/">Misfit Wearables</a>, a wearable computing startup from the founding team of mobile health compan