From user-friendly displays to sleek wristbands, here’s exactly what to look for in a pedometer. In a world of smartwatches and smartphones that can seemingly track every health metric there is, there ...

A pedometer is a small device people can wear to count the steps they take every day. Wearing one can encourage a person to move more and allow them to track their progress and set attainable goals. A ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of pedometer-based physical activity recommendations in predicting childhood adiposity. The subjects (mean age=9.6 years) were from two Midwestern ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between pedometer-determined ambulatory activity (steps/day) and body composition variables body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat). DESIGN: Secondary ...

Almost half of American adults don’t meet recommended weekly physical activity levels, but new BYU research suggests a surprisingly simple way to help increase exercise time: just strap on an activity ...

There have been many wearables and quantified-health applications over the past few years, but most have steered clear of proclaiming themselves medical devices. Some of the rumors about the iWatch ...

Are you more likely to sit less and exercise more if you've got a little device tracking you every step of the way? Quite a few people think so. But public health do-gooders bent on getting Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...