Just like a camera, the best pedometer is the one you always have with you. Pedometers can provide step count data and calculate key metrics like total distance traveled and calories. They come in a ...

Pedometers have increasingly been used to promote physical activity, yet there is little evidence that this motivational method is effective. Bravata and colleagues performed a systematic review to ...

Among other things, Einstein's theory of special relativity says that as an object's velocity increases, time as experienced by the object will slow down when compared to another object traveling at a ...

It seems really weird to think back to a time when your mobile phone couldn’t do the jobs of a dozen other devices. Now that smartphones have supplanted everything from compasses and Rolodexes to ...

To assess pedometer-determined physical activity levels and activity patterns in a sample of free-living normal weight and overweight UK adults. A consistent reduction in activity was observed on a ...

Three filings published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday reveal Apple is working to improve the accuracy of pedometer readings when implemented in mobile devices, hinting that the ...

Do your evenings typically consist of you perching your overweight frame on the couch, slurping down microwaveable pizzas between guttural sobs of despair? If so, the compact device above could be the ...

In each instance, the pedometer was pretty much bang-on, but the phone apps were off by about five per cent. Similar results were found after a 40-step stair climb test, a treadmill test and three ...

GeoPalz is launching an app called Lockerbot that enables parents to set activity requirements that then unlock certain features on Droids. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is based in Portland, Oregon, and ...