Introducing Misfit Shine 2 Swimmer's Edition

A swim, fitness, and sleep monitor to power every leg of your life relay

One of our favorite products just got a performance upgrade. We partnered with Speedo to combine industry-leading swim tracking with our most advanced technology, and today we're launching Misfit Shine 2 Swimmer's Edition, Powered by Speedo.

Our newest tracker-Speedo Shine 2 for short-covers swim, sleep, and everything in between.

In the pool, proprietary lap counting algorithms track a swimmer's lap count with pinpoint accuracy across all stroke types. Get accurate total swim distance, and set a workout timer that buzzes you when your countdown is complete. Track your swim training data with the Misfit app, or with Speedo's personalized swim-tracking app, Speedo Fit, to get fine-grain resolution into your swim fitness.

Speedo Shine 2 is equally powerful of the pool, where our hectic daily schedules mean that we need a fitness tracker that works as hard as we do. On dry land, Speedo Shine 2 automatically tracks steps, distance, calories, and light and restful sleep. It delivers vibration notifications for the info you need most, like call and text alerts, smart alarms, and movement reminders. It's also enabled to become a smart button-pair it with Misfit Link to control music, lighting, and a wide range of connected home devices, including Nest.

We're thrilled to announce a second layer to this launch: If you already own Misfit Shine 2 or Misfit Ray, you can do an in-app upgrade for $9.99, and add this swim tracking and lap counting technology to your current device.

Speedo Shine 2 is thinner, stronger, and faster, with improved capacitive touch responsiveness, faster wireless syncing, and extended Bluetooth range. Double tap to check activity progress or the time with 12 LED lights that are bright enough to be seen in direct sunlight.

And like all Misfit trackers, Speedo Shine 2 doesn't need charging. Rather, we'll send you a replacement battery when your power is low (approximately every six months). So it can be always on your body. That means better data, more complete information, and more powerful performance.

Life's a relay. Power every leg of it. Shop Speedo Shine 2 now.

Misfit Shine 2 Swimmer's Edition is available for purchase starting June 21 at Misfit.com, Speedousa.com and all Apple stores.

WANTED! The Next Disruptive Innovations in Smart Textiles

Consumers use more and more wearable technologies in their everyday life, incorporating smartphones and social media seamlessly. Smart clothing is the next step into the future. AiQ Smart Clothing Inc., a key player in this field, and WT | Innovation World Cup are looking for a cutting-edge innovation – a completely new textile solution, including fabric (or textile construction on fabrics or other textile objects), garment engineering, and power systems. In light of this, we asked Mark Chen, CEO of AIQ Smart Clothing Inc., to share his thoughts and views on WT | Innovation World Cup and what's next in the smart textile industry.

You´ve been a long time partner of the WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup. What are your aims in being involved in the Innovation World Cup Series?

Innovation World Cup is the best way to stay engaged with global cutting edge IoT players via condensed presentation, product demonstration and mingle sessions. We appreciated the great talent been summoned by WT and inspired by their innovation every year.

The special prize for smart clothing is powered by AiQ. To help understand the market better, what do you see as the next developments in the smart textiles industry?

In the next twelve months, we believe smart textile industry will progress itself from technology demonstration to usage trial and product introduction. In Asia, strong elder care demand driven by rapid aging population is leading well-being usage trials. In sport & fitness, human vital sign such as heart rate and motion monitor garment are introduced worldwide. Early adaptor feedback and data analysis will soon drive next wave of design evolution for each sport category by 2017.

AiQ also provides a deep-dive session for the winner of the special prize category. Who do you encourage to participate in the WT Innovation World Cup? What can participants expect from a collaboration with AiQ?

AiQ, as a pioneer of smart garment industry since 2009, have been built up a strong garment design team with broad portfolio of textile components, electronic/textile mixed design processes and rapid prototype capabilities to integrate electronic designs into everyday wears - clothes, pants, or headbands.

When a wearable device adopts a garment form factor, customers could easily adopt it in a nature and comfortable way with great potential to enable new usage models. Hence, deep div participants will enjoy the opportunity to have dialog with AiQ senior executive team to brain storm benefits and possibilities of enabling garment based user interface with AiQ. Two type of participants can greatly benefit from the collaboration: for non-textile wearable device designers who would like to get closer to their end users in garment form, this is a great opportunity to discuss transformation from pure electronics to textile. For textile form devices, participants will find possibilities of design improvements for critical garment characteristic such as washability, conductivity, and durance.  

The Innovation World Cup is the world's leading open innovation competition with participants from all over the globe. Submission to the WT Innovation World Cup is completely free, you can register at www.innovationworldcup.com/wt. The submission period ends on October 17^th, 2016.

A salty battery bath to combat EV range anxiety

The degradation of electrodes in lithium-based batteries has been a major inhibitor to their operating life, particularly when dendrites "growing" from these corroding electrodes short-circuit in the electrolyte. Australian researchers have found that pre-treating lithium electrodes in a special salt bath decreases the breakdown of the electrodes and boosts performance and battery life so markedly it could bring an end to range anxiety for drivers of electric vehicles.

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Top speakers line up for WTS USA

Many of the leading exponents and thinkers around connected technology will gather in Santa Clara, California, for WTS USA on the 4th and 5th October.

Now in its second year, WTS USA boasts 3 shows in 1 ; The Wearable Technology Show, IOT Connect and The Augmented Reality & VR Show. Alongside a dedicated exhibition, WTS USA will have a 6 track conference, boasting some of the biggest names in technology.

Speakers include –

• Heidi Dohse, Google

• Sagar Savla, Facebook

• Kirk Lacob, Golden State Warriors

• Allen Proithis, Sigfox

• Mounir Zok, US Olympic Committee

• Pankaj Kedia, Qualcomm

Over 150 speakers will take part over the two days of the event, which will provide fascinating insights into the future of connected technology. The Call For Papers for WTS USA 2016 will remain open until the 30th June 2016.