PRODUCT NEWS
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April 21, 2021
Fitbit co-founder: Future for fitness is well beyond the wrist
Exclusive from CNET: CTO Eric Friedman talks with CNET about the company's first wearable under the Google umbrella. A Fitbit used to be a little gadget to count your steps. Those days are long gone: Fitbits are now continuous heart and sleep monitors, with aspirations that go even deeper. Now owned...
April 20, 2021
Lululemon Gets Into Resale — Here’s Where It’s Piloting the Program
The Vancouver, Canada-based company announced today that it was piloting its first-ever recommerce program dubbed Like New as part of its broader commitment to sustainability unveiled in its Impact Agenda. Starting next month, customers in California and Texas will be able to take part in the trade-in program, which will expand...
April 19, 2021
Feds warn against using Peloton treadmills after child’s death
Households with children and small pets should immediately stop using Peloton Interactive's Tread+ treadmills, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is investigating the death of one child and dozens of other incidents involving the exercise equipment. CBS News
April 18, 2021
Fitness drones are coming, if inventors can get all the kinks out of them
Researchers say that the recreational drone market — valued at $2.33 billion in 2020, according to data from Research and Markets — could come together with the $30 billion wearables market to produce what may one day be a fixture in personal health and wellness: fitness drones. Washington Post
April 15, 2021
Peloton cuts Apple Watch Fitness support back to just the cycling class
Peloton had acquired a company dedicated to developing fitness bands earlier in 2021. The Apple Watch would be in direct competition to their device, so removing features early may push customers to adopt the proprietary fitness band later. Apple Insider
April 14, 2021
Smartwool Will Recycle Your Old Nasty Socks, Even if They Didn’t Make Them
Smartwool will collect these socks and shred them into their constituent fibers. To make new socks, you say, yes, brilliant. Well, no. That is very likely way too expensive and maybe impossible. Smartwool is turning your old socks into dog beds. Which makes sense, because dogs love eating socks almost as...
April 12, 2021
Dick’s Sporting Goods Opens Interactive Store ‘House of Sports’
If you’re looking to get in a quick workout with gear off the shelf, you’ll want to check out the 100,000-square-foot building in the Eastview Mall. Called House of Sport, the store includes an indoor rock-climbing wall, golf driving bay, putting bay, and health and wellness store. A track-and-turf field sits...
April 12, 2021
Nike Will Soon Sell Refurbished Sneakers in Select Stores Throughout the U.S.
The athletic powerhouse revealed Nike Refurbished today, its latest initiative in sustainability. The brand described it as a “fully circular consumer offering” where it will refurbish by hand gently worn, like-new or slightly imperfect footwear, both performance and lifestyle, in men’s and women’s sizing. Footwear News
April 7, 2021
adidas’ New Sustainable Ultraboost Sneakers Are Made of Abandoned Fishing Nets
Each shoe is equipped with Primeblue — a high-performance material made partly with Parley ocean plastic, which is spun from upcycled plastic waste collected from beaches and coastal communities.
April 6, 2021
Alistair Brownlee’s sporting secrets snapped up by HarperColllins
Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee's book Relentless: Secrets of the Sporting Elite has been snapped up by HarperCollins. Executive publisher Oli Malcolm negotiated world all language rights for HarperNonFiction with Richard Downey at Blue Carpet Management. Relentless will be published on 8th July 2021. The book follows a four-year quest by Brownlee to discover the...